"cruelly deceived. Contemporary critics, notably Virginia Woolf, perceived weaknesses in his work. To her and other Bloomsbury authors, Bennett represented the ""old guard"". His style was traditional rather than modern, which made him an obvious target for those who liked to present themselves as challenging literary conventions. Max Beerbohm criticised Bennett as a social climber who had forgotten his origins, and drew a mature and well-fed Bennett expounding, ""All gone according to plan, you see"" to a younger and leaner version of himself, who replies: ""Yes — MY plan."" Bennett in his turn regarded the Bloomsberries as decadents whose vices"
"referring to Roger Fry's exhibition ""Manet and the Post-Impressionists"". She argued that this in turn led to a change in human relations, and thence to change in ""religion, conduct, politics, and literature"". She envisaged modernism as inherently unstable, a society and culture in flux. She develops her argument through the examination of two generations of writers. Mr. Bennett was a critic of not just Woolf, but modern writers in general. In particular, Bennett challenged modern writer's depiction of ""reality"". Woolf throws out a challenge to Bennett:""Mr. Bennett says that it is only if the characters are real that the novel"
"Virginia Woolf's defence of modernism, ""Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown"" (1924) was the initial publication in the series. Cover illustrations were by Vanessa Bell. The ""Letters"" are less well known and are in the form of epistolary letters. Authors include E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf. Woolf's ""A Letter to a Young Poet"" (1932), was number 8, and addressed to John Lehmann as an exposition on modern poetry. Cover illustrations were by John Banting. In 1933, the entire series was reissued as a single volume, and are available on the Internet Archive in a 1986 edition. Hogarth Press The Hogarth Press"
"and general sense of life were contrary to the optimism and decency he saw in the mass of the people. In ""The Summing Up"", William Somerset Maugham offered a more circumspect critique, ""Success besides often bears within itself the seed of destruction, for it may very well cut the author off from the material that was its occasion...No better example of this can be given than Arnold Bennett. He never knew anything intimately but the life of the Five Towns in which he had been born and bred, and it was only when he dealt with them that his work"
"Life Magazine's list of the 100 outstanding books of 1924–44. These works were published posthumously: Stephen Vincent Benét Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War ""John Brown's Body"" (1928), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for the short stories ""The Devil and Daniel Webster"" (1936) and ""By the Waters of Babylon"" (1937). In 2009, The Library of America selected his story ""The King of the Cats"" (1929) for inclusion in"
"life of letters were embedded in David. As a conscientious objector in the First World War, Garnett worked on fruit farms in Suffolk and Sussex with his lover Duncan Grant. A prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group, Garnett received literary recognition when his novel ""Lady into Fox"", an allegorical fantasy, was awarded the 1922 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. He ran a bookshop near the British Museum with Francis Birrell during the 1920s. He also founded (with Francis Meynell) the Nonesuch Press. He wrote the novel ""Aspects of Love"" (1955), on which the later Andrew Lloyd Webber musical"
"chosen as a dedication for the introduction of Jessie Fauset's novel ""There Is Confusion"" at a Civic Club dinner hosted by Charles S. Johnson. for they both highlight the struggle for a defined voice of freedom, as well as the struggle of patriotism in regards of War. For Fauset highlights the optimistic impact of War upon society, while Bennett pinpointed and clarified the sorrow War enacted upon society, both equally different and very similar.- Bennett graduated from Columbia and Pratt in 1924 and received a position at Howard University, where she taught design, watercolor painting and crafts. A scholarship enabling"
"Stephen Vincent Benét Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War ""John Brown's Body"" (1928), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for the short stories ""The Devil and Daniel Webster"" (1936) and ""By the Waters of Babylon"" (1937). In 2009, The Library of America selected his story ""The King of the Cats"" (1929) for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of ""American Fantastic Tales"" edited by Peter Straub. Benét was born in"
"1920 Bennett married Joan Frankau. Their son, Christopher S. Bennett, was a contemporary of the writer Simon Raven at King's College, Cambridge; he went into the Treasury, and disappeared (possibly intentionally, given a work dispute and his hosting of several parties prior to his departure) in September 1966 whilst on a walking tour of the Savoy Alps. Their daughter Margaret (born 1924) married in 1948 the librarian Philip Gaskell. Henry Stanley Bennett Henry Stanley Bennett, FBA (1889-1972) was an English literary historian. Known as Stanley Bennett, publishing as H. S. Bennett, Bennett was an authority on mediaeval England, publishing ""Life"
"Lerone Bennett Jr. Lerone Bennett Jr. (October 17, 1928 – February 14, 2018) was an African-American scholar, author and social historian, known for his analysis of race relations in the United States. His best-known works include ""Before the Mayflower"" (1962) and ""Forced into Glory"" (2000), a book about U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Born and raised in Mississippi, he graduated from Morehouse College in 1949. He served in the Korean War and began in journalism briefly at the ""Atlanta Daily World"", when we was hired away by Johnson Publishing to work for ""JET"" magazine. Later, he was the long-time executive editor"
"in his introduction (as series editor) to the ""Modern Critical Views"" volume on Arnold: ""Arnold got into his poetry what Tennyson and Browning scarcely needed (but absorbed anyway), the main march of mind of his time."" Of his poetry, Bloom says, Whatever his achievement as a critic of literature, society, or religion, his work as a poet may not merit the reputation it has continued to hold in the twentieth century. Arnold is, at his best, a very good but highly derivative poet... As with Tennyson, Hopkins, and Rossetti, Arnold's dominant precursor was Keats, but this is an unhappy puzzle,"
"Brown University in 1891, and of Latin at Cornell University in 1892. His syntactical studies, notably various papers on the subjunctive, are based on a statistical examination of Latin texts and are marked by a fresh system of nomenclature; he ranks as one of the leaders of the New American School of syntacticians, who insist on a preliminary re-examination of all available data. Of great importance are his advocacy of quantitative reading of Latin verse and his ""Critique of Some Recent Subjunctive Theories"" in vol. ix. (1898) of Cornell Studies in Classical Philology, of which he was an editor. Bennett's"
"tenth in 1913 and sixth in 1914, and ""The Head of the House of Coombe ""was fourth in 1922. Frances Hodgson Burnett Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British-born American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels ""Little Lord Fauntleroy"" (published in 1885–1886), ""A Little Princess"" (1905), and ""The Secret Garden"" (1911). Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, Manchester, England. After her father died in 1852, the family fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 emigrated to the United States, settling in Jefferson City, Tennessee. There, Frances"
"the arts in the city that became known as the Charleston Renaissance. A leader in this effort, Bennett worked with Hervey Allen and DuBose Heyward to found the Poetry Society of South Carolina, which sponsored visits by many of the distinguished poets of the day. In subsequent decades, Bennett published three more books that grew out of his interest in folk tales, including ""Madame Margot: A Grotesque Legend of Old Charleston"" (1921) and ""The Doctor to the Dead: Grotesque Legends and Folk Tales of Old Charleston"" (1946). The most successful of these was his 1928 collection of international folk tales,"
"Dennett, writing in 1933, deemed the book Hay's honest effort to set forth a problem he could not solve. Other historians were more hostile: Vernon L. Parrington in 1930 called it a ""dishonest book"" and ""a grotesque fabric smeared with unctuous morality"". More recently, Gale (writing in 1978) described it as ""a timely, popular and controversial novel that still rewards the sympathetic reader"", while Hay's most recent biographer, John Taliaferro (2013) deemed it ""certainly no love letter to [Cleveland]"". The Bread-Winners The Bread-Winners: A Social Study is an 1883 novel by John Hay, former secretary to Abraham Lincoln who in"
"William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Sigmund Freud, E. E. Cummings, Jean Toomer, Hart Crane, Lewis Mumford, Anita Loos, and the Modern Library series. In addition to being the house of Theodore Dreiser and Sherwood Anderson throughout the 1920s, they notably published T.S. Eliot's ""The Waste Land"", Isadora Duncan's ""My Life"", Nathanael West's ""Miss Lonelyhearts"", Djuna Barnes's ""Ryder"", Ezra Pound's ""Personae"", John Reed's ""Ten Days That Shook the World"", and Eugene O'Neill's plays. In his biography of Horace Liveright, ""Firebrand"", author Tom Dardis noted B&L was ""the most magnificent yet messy publishing firm this century has seen."" In 1974 Liveright's remaining backlist"
"lacked ""imagination,"" and that they viewed the world in materialistic, strictly intellectual, and overly objective, ""impersonal"" terms. Bly made his argument by comparing examples of verse by European and South American poets and some medieval Arabic poems (which he likes) with Modernist and contemporary American examples (which he dislikes). He criticized most American poetry from 1917-1963, beginning with the generation of Modernist poets that included T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, H.D. and Marianne Moore; then he also vehemently attacked the postwar generation of American poets, specifically citing Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, John Ciardi, Charles Olson, Karl"
"the first African American to join the literary and dramatic societies. She wrote her high school play and was also featured as an actress. She also wrote both the class graduation speech and the words to the graduation song. After her graduation in 1921, Bennett took art classes at Columbia University and the Pratt Institute. In her undergraduate studies, her poem ""Heritage"" was published in ""The Crisis"", magazine of the NAACP, during November 1923; in December of the same year, ""Heritage"" was included in ""Opportunity"", a magazine published by the National Urban League. In 1924, her poem ""To Usward"" was"
"the most prominent defenders of tradition in culture and the arts were Matthew Arnold and John Ruskin. Matthew Arnold, a poet and cultural critic, is best known for his poetry and literary, social and religious criticism. His book ""Culture and Anarchy"" (1869) took on the middle-class Victorian values of the day (Arnold viewed middle class tastes in literature as ""philistinism"") and argued for a return to the classical literature of the past. Arnold also viewed with skepticism the plutocratic grasping in socioeconomic affairs which Coleridge, Carlyle and the Oxford Movement criticized. Arnold vigorously attacked Liberal Party, and its Nonconformist base."
"Anthony Burgess wrote: ""We all want to like Browning, but we find it very hard."" Gerard Manley Hopkins and George Santayana were also critical. The latter expressed his views in the essay ""The Poetry of Barbarism,"" which attacks Browning and Walt Whitman for what he regarded as their embrace of irrationality. In 1914 American modernist composer Charles Ives created the Robert Browning Overture, a dense and darkly dramatic piece with gloomy overtones reminiscent of the Second Viennese School. In 1930 the story of Browning and his wife was made into the play ""The Barretts of Wimpole Street"", by Rudolph Besier."
"approach at Oxbridge at the time (although the philosophers themselves denied that they were part of any unified school). He first encountered the strong ideological hold of linguistic philosophy while at Balliol: ""Words and Things"" is fiercely critical of the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, J. L. Austin, Gilbert Ryle, Antony Flew, P. F. Strawson and many others. Ryle refused to have the book reviewed in the philosophical journal ""Mind"" (which he edited), and Bertrand Russell (who had written an approving foreword) protested in a letter to ""The Times"". A response from Ryle and a lengthy correspondence ensued. In the 1950s,"
"novelists Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Thomas Adolphus Trollope, and the ""Swedenborgian"" James John Garth Wilkinson. As well as Brewster, fellow scientists Michael Faraday and Thomas Huxley were prominent contemporary critics of Home's claims. It was the poet Robert Browning however, who proved to be one of Home's most adamant critics. After attending a séance of Home's, Browning wrote in a letter to ""The Times"" that: 'the whole display of hands, spirit utterances etc., was a cheat and imposture'. Browning gave his unflattering impression of Home in the poem, ""Sludge the Medium"" (1864). His wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, was convinced that"
"Henry Holcomb Bennett Henry Holcomb Bennett (December 5, 1863 – April 30, 1924) was an American author, journalist, and poet. Bennett was born in Chillicothe, Ohio on December 5, 1863. He attended Kenyon College and graduated in 1886. He moved to Kansas for a time before returning to his home town as a journalist. He also began submitting creative writing to various newspapers and magazines. Bennett was the author of poems such as ""A Desert Love Song"" (""Munsey's"" Aug. 1902) and ""Gangway! Gangway"", (""National Magazine"" Mar. 1901) and the short stories ""The Face of Ompah"" (""National Magazine"" June 1900) and"
"Samuel Ashley Brown Samuel Ashley Brown (December 19, 1923 – June 24, 2011 ) was a professor emeritus at the University of South Carolina who taught English and comparative literature. While he founded the literary magazine ""Shenandoah"", his fame rests in great part on the fact that he was a confidant of two famous American women writers: the novelist Flannery O'Connor and the poet Elizabeth Bishop. Much was learned posthumously about both women when their respective correspondence with Brown was made public. Brown was born in Louisville and raised at 1221 4th street, in a Victorian home that would become"
"prisoners must be segregated to maintain order and prevent violence. On September 1, 1943, Bennett wrote to Lowell Naeve, a Danbury prisoner involved in the work strike for integration, charging him with resorting to ""undemocratic methods of coercion to force a change."" Bennett also denounced the tactics used by pacifists in prison. ""Strikes, boycotts, and civil disobedience,"" he argued, ""certainly are not the democratic method of accomplishing the solution of racial problems. They merely engender discord and race riots."" James V. Bennett James Van Benschoten Bennett (born 29 August 1894 in Silver Creek, New York, United States; died 1978) was"
"emerged as a vocal campaigner against public library cuts. Plans to shut local libraries were ""wrong and very short-sighted"", Bennett said, adding: ""We're impoverishing young people."" Alan Bennett Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, and author. He was born in Leeds and attended Oxford University, where he studied history and performed with the Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research medieval history at the university for several years. His collaboration as writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue ""Beyond the Fringe"" at the 1960 Edinburgh"
"Henry Stanley Bennett Henry Stanley Bennett, FBA (1889-1972) was an English literary historian. Known as Stanley Bennett, publishing as H. S. Bennett, Bennett was an authority on mediaeval England, publishing ""Life on the English Manor"" in 1937, and subsequently writing extensively on literature of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. For a full bibliography see Bennett was educated initially at St Mark's College in Chelsea, and upon graduation became a schoolmaster at a London elementary school. After being invalided during the final stages of the Great War, he returned to England and gained admission to study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In"
"as Palmer Cox (creator of the Brownie), A. B. Frost, Oliver Herford and E. W. Kemble. ""Life"" attracted an impressive literary roster too: John Kendrick Bangs, James Whitcomb Riley and Brander Matthews all wrote for the magazine around the start of the 20th century. Mitchell was accused of anti-Semitism at a time of high rates of immigration to New York of eastern European Jews. When the magazine blamed the theatrical team of Klaw & Erlanger for Chicago's grisly Iroquois Theater Fire in 1903, a national uproar ensued. ""Life"" drama critic, James Stetson Metcalfe, was barred from the 47 Manhattan theatres"
"integral part of the ""Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Public Benefits"", consisting of a prose commentary, called ""Remarks"", and an essay, ""An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue"". In 1723 a later edition appeared, including ""An Essay on Charity and Charity Schools"", and ""A Search into the Nature of Society"". It was vigorously combatted by, among others, Bishop Berkeley and William Law, author of ""The Serious Call"", and in 1729 was made the subject of a prosecution for its immoral tendency. This essay criticised the charity schools, designed to educate the poor and, in doing so, instil"
"Bennett Harrison Bennett Harrison (June 27, 1942 Jersey City – January 17, 1999, Brooklyn Heights) was a leading radical political economist, writer, musician, songwriter. Among his academic appointments was professor of political economy at MIT, Boston. Harrison held posts at Harvard University, New School for Social Research, and Carnegie Mellon University. Harrison taught in universities in Italy and Japan. Bennett published a book in 1994, ""Lean and Mean"", challenging a widely held belief that small and medium firms or businesses are responsible for the majority of economic innovation, growth and job creation. Economist Barry Bluestone joined him in writing this"
"Frances Hodgson Burnett Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British-born American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels ""Little Lord Fauntleroy"" (published in 1885–1886), ""A Little Princess"" (1905), and ""The Secret Garden"" (1911). Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, Manchester, England. After her father died in 1852, the family fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 emigrated to the United States, settling in Jefferson City, Tennessee. There, Frances began writing to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines from the age of 19. In"
"would later go on to become president of Victoria College and Laurentian University. Bennett taught languages, including French and German, at various institutions including the University of Toronto and the Ontario Ladies' College. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1931. She published three historical fiction novels: ""Land for Their Inheritance"" (1955), ""A Straw in the Wind"" (1958) and ""Short of the Glory"" (1960). All three novels dealt with the settlement and development of New France. Later in life, she took a doctorate in sacred literature from Victoria College. She died on April 19, 1988 in Toronto,"
"James, and Joseph Conrad. Contentiously, Leavis, and his followers, excluded major authors such as Charles Dickens, Laurence Sterne and Thomas Hardy from his canon, characterising Dickens as a ""mere entertainer"", but eventually, following the revaluation of Dickens by Edmund Wilson and George Orwell, Leavis changed his position, publishing ""Dickens the Novelist"" in 1970. The Leavisites' downgrading of Hardy may have damaged Leavis's own authority. In 1950, in the introduction to ""Mill on Bentham and Coleridge"", a publication he edited, Leavis set out the historical importance of utilitarian thought. Leavis found Bentham to epitomize the scientific drift of culture and social"