Author:
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980.
Imprint:New York : Delacorte Press, [1970]
Descriptionxi, 496 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:"A Seymour Lawrence book."
Note:CRITICAL: On a criticism of Thomas Hardy. - A wreath for the gamekeeper. - Reflections on Willa Cather. - 'It is hard to stand in the middle.' - The art of Katherine Mansfield. - Orpheus in purgatory. - 'The laughing heat of the sun.' - On Christopher Sykes. - Virginia Woolf. - E.M. Forster. - Max Beerbohm. - Eleanor Clark. - The wingéd skull. - On modern fiction. -PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR: St. Augustine and the bullfight. - A little incident in the Rue de l'Odéon. - A letter to Sylvia Beach. - Letters to a nephew. - Dylan Thomas. - A defense of Circe. - Pull dick, pull devil. - The flower of flowers. - A note on Pierre-Joseph Redouté. - Portrait: Old South. - Audubon's happy land. - A house of my own. - A letter to the editor of The Village Voice. - The necessary enemy. - 'Marriage is belonging' - Act of faith: 4 July 1942. - The future is now. - A letter to the editor of The Nation. - On communism in Hollywood. - A letter to the editor of The Saturday Review of Literature. - Opening speech at Paris conference, 1952. - Remarks on the agenda. - A letter to the editor of The Yale Review. - A letter to the editor of The Washington Post. - Speech of acceptance. -BIOGRAPHICAL: The days before. - Homage to Ford Madox Ford. - Gertrude Stein: three views. - Ole Woman River. - Eudora Welty and A Curtain of Green. - A sprig of mint for Allen. - On first meeting T.S. Eliot. - Flannery O'Connor at home. - From the notebooks: Yeats, Joyce, Eliot, Pound. - Romany Marie, Joe Gould: two legends come to life. - Jacqueline Kennedy. -COTTON MATHER: Affectation of praehiminincies (A.D. 1663-1675). - A goat for Azazel (A.D. 1688). - A bright particular faith (A.D. 1700). -MEXICAN: Why I write about Mexico. - Notes on the life and death of a hero. - Miss Porter adds a comment. - Leaving the petate. - The fiesta of Guadalupe. - The Mexican trinity. - Where presidents have no friends. - La conquistadora. - Quetzacoatl. - The charmed life. -ON WRITING: My first speech. - Notes on writing. - Three statements about writing. - No plot, my dear, no story. - On writing. - 'Noon wine': the sources. -POEMS: Enchanted. - Two songs from Mexico. - Little requiem. - Winter burial. - Anniversary in a country cemetery. - November in Windham. - After a long journey. - Measures for song and dance.
