A Jacques Barzun reader : selections from his works

Essays. Selections

On a pragmatic view of life -- Toward a fateful serenity -- On the two ways of knowing : history and science -- The search for truths -- History as counter-method and anti-abstraction -- The imagination of the real -- Cultural history : a synthesis -- Alfred North Whitehead -- William James : the mind as artist -- Thomas Beddoes, M.D. -- Science and scientism -- Myths for materialists -- On what critics argue about -- Criticism : an art or a craft? -- The scholar-critic -- James Agate and his nine egos -- The grand pretense -- On sentimentality -- Samuel Butler -- On romanticism -- Dorothy Sayers -- John Jay Chapman -- Remembering Lionel Trilling -- On language and style -- Rhetoric : what it is : why needed -- The retort circumstantial -- The necessity of a common tongue -- The word "man" -- On biography -- Venus at large : sexuality and the limits of literature -- Onoma, Onomato, Onomatwaddle -- On some classics -- Swift, or man's capacity for reason -- Why Diderot? -- William Hazlitt -- How the romantics invented Shakespeare -- Bernard Shaw -- Goethe's Faust -- When the Orient was new : Byron, Kinglake, and Flaubert -- The permanence of Oscar Wilde -- Bagehot as historian -- Lincoln the literary artist -- The reign of William and Henry -- On music and design -- Why opera? -- Is music unspeakable? -- Music for Europe : a travers chants -- To praise Varèse -- Delacroix -- Visual evidence of a new age -- Museum piece -- Why art must be challenged -- On teaching and learning -- The art of making teachers -- Where the educational nonsense comes from -- Occupational disease : verbal inflation -- The centrality of reading -- The tyranny of testing -- History for beginners -- Of what use the classics today? -- The university's primary task -- The scholar is an institution -- Exeunt the humanities -- On America past and present -- On baseball -- Race : fact or fiction? -- Thoreau the thorough impressionist -- The railroad -- The great switch -- Is Democratic theory for export? -- Administering and the law -- The three enemies of intellect -- An American commencement -- On France and the French -- Paris in 1830 -- Food for the NRF -- French and its vagaries -- Flaubert's Dictionary of accepted ideas -- On crime, true and make-believe -- The aesthetics of the criminous -- Rex Stout -- A catalogue of crime -- Why read crime fiction?-- The place and point of "true crime" -- Meditations on the literature of spying -- A miscellany -- Definitions -- Jottings -- Clerihews -- Ars poetical.

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Heartbreak -- Terrific mother / Elms / The fine art of sighing / Intensive care / Careful / To Urania / Madness -- Zelda: a worksheet / Lunar caustic / Delirium / Autobiography / Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? / The ascent of Mount Carmel / Sex -- Alice / Rimininny! / Two cunts in Paris / The art of fiction CLXIII / The art of fiction CLXXII / The art of fiction XL / With a potpourri down under / Le jet d'eau / The ring of brightest angels around heaven / The art of fiction CXXXIV / The art of fiction CXXI / A liberal education / Love -- Little expressionless animals / Cyprian / The art of poetry LXXI / The art of fiction CL / The art of fiction CV / To the French language / Los dos rancheros / Pearls / Everything / Betrayal -- Lorena / Migraine sonnets / Chez Lambert / You must relax! / Marriage song / The Beet Queen / Outsiders -- Tugboat syndrome / The art of fiction XVII / Against winter / Thirty-three / Funes the memorious / Spaceships have landed / Intoxication -- It's six a.m., do you know where you are? / Edmund Wilson / The guest / The art of fiction XII / The art of fiction XCIII / The art of journalism I / The art of fiction XXXVI / The basketball diaries / Car-crash while hitchhiking / War -- Last comes the raven / Blind white fish in Belgium / The art of fiction CXL / The art of poetry V / The art of fiction LXIV / The ends / Pearl Harbor / Conquerer / The art of theater III / The dead soldier's talk / The art of fiction CXLIX / The art of fiction CXLIII / Terminus / A prayer to the sun / Whimsy -- How to travel with a salmon / The admonitory hippopotamus: or, Angelica and Sneezby / Milking the moon / Pomework: an exercise in occasional poetry / The Plato Club / Horrors -- The little girl / Lackawanna / The art of fiction CLXXIII / Heat / Home and away / The broom: the new wife's tale / Ailanthus / In the country of last things

God -- The conversion of the Jews / The fallacy of thinking flesh is flesh / A roadside resurrection / The breath / The saint / Memory cave / Snakes / Death -- City midnight junk strains / The virgin suicides / Picnic, lightning / The art of poetry LXXV / The art of fiction CLXVII / Letter after an estrangement / Aqua Boulevard / The saving / Sacred Heart / Return / A work in progress / Dinner -- In the belly of the cat / Oysters / The art of fiction XLVIII / Non-vegetarian / The Devil's larder / Baseball -- Batting against Castro / Curt Flood / The third inning / The Hector Quesadilla story / Travels -- The Mexican girl / Exodus / Rostropovich at Checkpoint Charlie, November 11, 1989 / TV men: Antigone (Scripts 1 and 2) / A history of paisley / The interior of North Dakota / The art of fiction LXXVIII / The art of poetry XXX / The art of fiction CLIV / Her real name / The art of writing -- Musica reservata / At a reading / Making it / Correspondence / On the literary life / The art of fiction CLXXIII / The art of fiction / The art of fiction CXX / The art of theater V / A radio interview / The art of poetry XLII / The art of fiction XCIV / The art of fiction LI / The art of fiction CXXX / The art of fiction CXXXIX / The art of fiction LXVII / The art of fiction XLIII / The art of fiction CVI / The art of poetry X / The art of fiction XVI / The art of theater XII / The art of fiction XXI / The art of fiction CXXXIII / The art of fiction CXXXV / The art of fiction XXVIII / The art of fiction XII / The art of fiction LXXXVII

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