Rexroth on Literature

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Subject: Rexroth on Literature, Lawrence Durrell & Isaac Singer
From: "Bureau of Public Secrets" <knabb DeleteThis @bopsecrets.org>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:53:03 -0800

Although Kenneth Rexroth was a notoriously anti-academic rebel, his
knowledge of world literature was so extensive and so undeniable that
the Encyclopaedia Britannica asked him to compose the major article on
"Literature" for its new edition in 1974. That article is now online
at the Rexroth Archive:

"THE ART OF LITERATURE"
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/literature.htm

Also recently added are essays on two great modern writers:

"LAWRENCE DURRELL"
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/durrell.htm

"ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER"
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/isaac.singer.htm


The Rexroth Archive also includes selections from "Classics Revisited"
(essays on classic works from Homer to "Huckleberry Finn"), the
complete book "Communalism" (a history of utopian communities and
millenarian movements), poems, translations, San Francisco journalism,
and essays on jazz, the Beats, and numerous other topics.

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