Contributor
Stenerson, Douglas C.
Imprint:Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1987.
Descriptionix, 214 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:Intimate Impressions and Insights: On H.L. Mencken / George Jean Nathan. - H.L. Mencken / Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. - Henry L. Mencken (1880-1956) / Gerald W. Johnson. - From Local Prominence to National Fame, 1905-1918: An interpretation of Shaw [Review of George Bernard Shaw: His Plays] / Anonymous. - An account of Nietzsche [Review of The Philosophpy of Friedrich Nietzsche] / Anonymous. - Fanfare [Review essay on A Book of Prefaces] / Burton Rascoe. - H.L. Mencken [Review essay on A Book of Prefaces] / Randolph Bourne. - Beautifying American literature [Review essay on A Book of Prefaces] / Stuart P. Sherman. - American genius and its locale / James Weldon Johnson. - Heyday in the Twenties, 1919-1929: The living speech [Review of The American Language] / F[rancis] H[ackett]. - American literature or colonial? / Ernest A. Boyd. - American literature and the tart set / Percy H. Boynton. - [Review of Prejudices: Second Series] / H[unter] T. S[tagg]. - H.L. Mencken / Edmund Wilson. - H.L. Mencken [Review essay on Notes on Democracy] / Walter Lippmann. - Views and reviews / George S. Schuyler. - The critic and American life / Irving Babbitit. - H.L. Mencken: Doctor Rhetoricus / I.J. Semper. - Reputation in Decline, Reputation Recovered, 1930-1956: [Review of Treatise on the Gods] / Reinhold Niebuhl. - Mr. Mencken leaves the Mercury / Anonymous. - A philological romance [Review of The American Language, 4th ed.] / J.B. Dudek. - H.L. Mencken / Louis Kronenberger. - [Review of Happy Days] / Hamilton Owens. - [Review of Newspaper Days] / Hamilton Owens. - Linguistic patriot [Review of The American Language: Supplement I] / Harold Whitehall. - Mencken in Baltimore / Van Wyck Brooks. - This was Mencken: an appreciation / Joseph Wood Krutch. - Recent Perspectives and Interpretations, 1957-1984: H.L. Mencken's poetry / Edward A. Martin. - The "forgotten man" of H.L. Mencken / Douglas C. Stenerson. - Rhetoric and vision in Mencken's satire: the "medieval" mob / M.K. Singleton. - The impact of Mencken on American linguistics / Raven I. McDavid, Jr. - Mencken as a magazine editor / Carl Dolmetsch. - Private voices of public men: the Mencken-Dreiser inscriptions / Vincent Fitzpatrick. - "The Hellawful South": Mencken and the late confederacy / Fred Hobson. - H.L. Mencken and James Weldon Johnson: two men who helped shape a renaissance / Charles Scruggs.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographies and index.
