| 1917 - 934 pages
...stories Mr. O'Brien restates the principles that guide his selection, saying, "I have set myself to the task of disengaging the essential human qualities...artists, may fairly be called a criticism of life." The year book of the short story gives the record of stories published from January to October, 1918.... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - 1917 - 582 pages
...importance in fiction unless it is organic substance." What is "organic substance" anyway? He writes: "I have set myself the task of disengaging the essential...human qualities in our contemporary fiction which may be called a criticism of life. . . He is a passionate observer of human nature and has given realism... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer, Marianne Moore - 1919 - 530 pages
...signposts put out in the first volume. Mr. O'Brien in his preface announces that he has set himself " the task of disengaging the essential human qualities...chronicled conscientiously by our literary artists may be called criticism of life." He says too that the poetry of life seems to him of more spiritual value... | |
| Edward Joseph O'Brien, John Cournos - 1922 - 370 pages
...additional word may be added on the principles which have governed our choice. We have set ourselves the task of disengaging the essential human qualities...artists, may fairly be called a criticism of life. We are not at all interested in formulae, and organised criticism at its best would be nothing more... | |
| 1924 - 338 pages
...a brief summary of the principles which have governed our choice of stories. We have set ourselves the task of disengaging the essential human qualities...artists, may fairly be called a criticism of life. We are not at all interested in formula, and organized criticism at its best would be nothing more... | |
| Edward Joseph O'Brien, John Cournos - 1926 - 450 pages
...this series, I repeat here a brief summary of the principles which have governed my choice of stories. I have set myself the task of disengaging the essential...conscientiously by our literary artists, may fairly be called criticism of life. I am not at all interested in formulae, and organized criticism at its best would... | |
| 1926 - 882 pages
...down his principle of selection on the third page of his preface when he said that he had set himself "the task of disengaging the essential human qualities...our contemporary fiction, which, when chronicled, may fairly be called a criticism of life". And he went on to say that what interests him, "to the exclusion... | |
| 1923 - 448 pages
...believe he is also the man who is most anxious to return to Main Street and report what he has found. To repeat what I have said in these pages in previous...task of disengaging the essential human qualities hi our contemporary fiction which, when chronicled conscientiously by our literary artists, may fairly... | |
| Martha Foley, Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien - 1924 - 568 pages
...ensue. But if the short story is to be a work of art, we shall proceed in a very different manner. To repeat what I have said in these pages in previous...a criticism of life. I am not at all interested in formula, and organized criticism at its best would be nothing more than dead criticism, as all dogmatic... | |
| Martha Foley, Edward Joseph O'Brien - 1926 - 492 pages
...quietly without self -consciousness, the American short story will have started on its journey home. To repeat what I have said in these pages in previous...fiction, which, when chronicled conscientiously by oar literary artists, may fairly be called a criticism of life. I am not at all interested in formula?,... | |
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