The boy scout handbook and other observations /
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1982.
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Table of Contents:
- The boy scout handbook
- The persistent itchings of Poe and Whitman
- Sincerity abroad
- The life of art
- William Carlos Williams and his problems
- What we look like
- Notes on class
- The purging of Penrod
- Smut-hunting in Pretoria
- Literary biography and its pitfalls
- Nabokov as "comparatist"
- Can Graham Greene write English?
- Being reviewed: the A.B.M. and its theory
- Terrors and delights of the traveler abroad
- Footwork as scholarship
- An impediment to pilgrimage
- Latin America defeats intelligent travel writer
- A place to recuperate
- Boswell and his memorable scenes
- Kingy and some Coevals
- Baron Corvo, sturdy beggar
- Poor Ivor Gurney
- Rider Haggard, the public man
- The Hearst of literature
- Waugh in his letters
- Some truth about the war
- The regrettable decision of Herman Wouk
- The romantic war and the other one
- "Where are the war poets?"
- Time-Life goes to war
- Yank when we needed it
- The war in black and white
- Battle trauma and the NATO problem
- My war.