The Collected Poems of James Agee
Author : James Agee
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Page : 232 pages
File Size : 16,43 MB
Release : 1970
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ISBN : 9780345220233
Author : James Agee
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Page : 232 pages
File Size : 16,43 MB
Release : 1970
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ISBN : 9780345220233
Author : James Agee
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Page : 179 pages
File Size : 29,32 MB
Release : 1972
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780714509068
Author : James Agee
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,44 MB
Release : 2008-10-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1598530321
Better known for writing in a variety of other genres, James Agee always thought of himself as essentially a poet. Winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition in 1934 for Permit Me Voyage, Agee was, in the words of editor Andrew Hudgins, "as restless in his poetry as he was later in his prose, exhibiting a variety . . . that we expect from the protean mind that excelled in so many different kinds of writing." Ranging from intense religious sonnets to lyrics for musical comedy, Agee?s verse takes us into the heart of his unique genius, what Robert Fitzgerald called his "sense of being . . . a raging awareness of the sensory field in depth and in detail." About the American Poets Project Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today’s most discerning poets and critics.
Author : James Agee
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 10,95 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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In this first full-scale biography, Bergreen makes judicious use of unpublished letters and manuscripts and extensive interviews with people in Agee's life, presenting a compelling account of the personality and career of the novelist, journalist, screenwriter, film critic and poet. Rich in incident and implication, this volume sympathetically depicts his life, hurtled in a storm of marriages, liaisons and heavy drinking, and torn by the conflicting demands of journalistic success and a more private muse. ISBN 0-525-24253-8 : $20.00.
Author : James Agee
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Page : 179 pages
File Size : 21,75 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : James Agee
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 27,70 MB
Release : 1972
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Author : James Agee
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Page : 646 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781572339941
In addition to producing such distinguished literary works as Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and A Death in the Family, James Agee spent almost two decades of his professional career in journalism, primarily as an anonymous staff writer for the Henry Luce magazines Fortune and Time. At Fortune, especially, Agee excelled in pointed, bemused reporting on American life that embraced a wide range of topics, from cockfighting to the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg to the ambitious programs of the Tennessee Valley Authority. What is arguably his most celebrated Fortune piece, “The Great American Roadside,” remains a remarkably prescient account of the ways in which the automobile was transforming America's economic landscape and cultural sensibility. This book, the second volume in The Works of James Agee series, recovers for modern readers the remarkable breadth and depth of Agee's reportage, beginning with his apprenticeship writings for student publications at Exeter and Harvard in the 1920s and 1930s and concluding with his last book review (of a Dylan Thomas screenplay), written in 1953 for the New York Times. Also included are two posthumously published pieces—the Whitmanesque “Brooklyn Is” and a meditation on news photography and race relations, “'America! Look at Your Shame!'”—as well as unpublished articles, book reviews, and rough drafts and notes that yield unique insight into theauthor's complex writing process. (Excluded from this volume but scheduled for a later one is Agee's much-heralded film criticism.) To say that Agee was ambivalent about journalism is an understatement: in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, he famously denounced it as “a broad and successful form of lying.” Yet, in his unsigned labors on behalf of the Luce empire and in various other assignments, Agee seized opportunities to hone his craft and exercise his acute powers of observation—work that would serve him well as he undertook the kind of passionate and deeply personal writing that would secure his reputation.
Author : James Agee
Publisher : New York : AMS Press
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Fiction
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Author : Erling Larsen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1452910448
James Agee - American Writers 95 was first published in 1971. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.