William Dean Howells, whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his...
William Dean Howells , whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his close fr...
William Dean Howells combined a career as an important novelist with that of a journalist. As editor of The Atlantic Monthly and later as author of, or contributor to, the "Editor's Study" and "Editor's Easy Chair" columns in Harper's Monthly, he was an...
BOOK REVIEW Robert Lowell: Selected Poems Edited by Frank Bidart Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 420 pp., paperback, $18 Frank Bidart's services to Robert Lowell have been many: Three years ago he, along with David Gewanter, edited Lowell's 1,200-page "Collected...
I n "Write, She Said" (January 9), Olga Anastasia Pelensky dramatically details the difficulties of teaching writing in the Lowell public schools, where more than 50 percent of the students learn English as a second language. There was evidence in the schools of renovations,...
