{"product_id":"playing-it-by-ear-literary-essays-and-reviews","title":"Playing It by Ear: Literary Essays and Reviews","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003ePlaying It by Ear: Literary Essays and Reviews\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eWilliam H Pritchard\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780870239489\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Massachusetts Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1994\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eThis volume gathers together thirty-three essays and reviews by one of America's liveliest critics. William H. Pritchard's books on English and American writers and his critical biographies of Robert Frost and Randall Jarrell are well known. But for the past thirty years he has also been steadily engaged in writing shorter pieces about poets, novelists, and critics, many of which have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eHudson Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eBoston Sunday Globe\u003c\/i\u003e. The subjects range from Frost to Sylvia Plath, from Anthony Trollope to Gore Vidal, from H. L. Mencken to Helen Vendler. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEver willing to speak his mind about other writers' work, Pritchard has also produced less than admiring, even satirical treatments of, among others, the poetry of Stephen Spender and the excesses of Yale's \"hermeneutical mafia.\" Also included in the book are amusing reflections of his adventures as a soap opera fan and on the art of writing hostile reviews. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePritchard never forgets that it is a critic's job to engage and sustain the reader's attention and that they only way to do this is to write well. Readers of \u003ci\u003ePlaying It by Ear--\u003c\/i\u003ethe title illustrates the truth that criticism must listen to the voices of its subjects\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003ewill sometimes disagree with Pritchard's judgments, but will rarely be bored by the way he expresses them.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Playing It by Ear: Literary Essays and Reviews | William H Pritchard | Paperback | 9780870239489 | Used: Very Good | Literary Criticism 1658846","offer_id":50783931891970,"sku":"1658846","price":26.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/610PeR0Yd8L.jpg?v=1792224666","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/playing-it-by-ear-literary-essays-and-reviews","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}