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Prejudices, First Series

by H. L. Mencken

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  1. Criticism of Criticism of Criticism

    18:55

  2. The Late Mr. Wells

    25:31

  3. Arnold Bennett

    30:39

  4. The Dean

    10:48

  5. Professor Veblen

    35:50

  6. The New Poetry Movement

    23:22

  7. The Heir of Mark Twain

    9:51

  8. Hermann Sudermann

    18:07

  9. George Ade

    20:35

  10. The Butte Bashkirtseff

    12:13

  11. Six Members of the Institute

    29:01

  12. The Genealogy of Etiquette

    38:27

  13. The American Magazine

    18:43

  14. The Ulster Polonius

    17:30

  15. An Unheeded Law-Giver

    8:52

  16. The Blushful Mystery

    26:52

  17. George Jean Nathan

    28:44

  18. Portrait of an Immortal Soul

    21:20

  19. Jack London

    7:08

  20. Among the Avatars

    11:26

  21. Three American Immortals

    7:00

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Reviewers and their rules come under scrutiny before the writers they usually judge. In this 1919 collection of essays, H. L. Mencken examines rival approaches to criticism, including moral instruction, formal standards and psychological interpretation. His discussion of J. E. Spingarn considers the claim that a critic should judge a work through its maker's aims. The opening turns disagreements about literature into an argument about the habits and responsibilities of reviewing.

The contents range across individual authors, the new poetry movement, magazines and etiquette. In a later passage, Mencken challenges an earlier assessment of Robert W. Chambers by examining dialogue and the commercial fiction it represents. His attention moves between broad theories and particular sentences, showing how a literary reputation can become a subject of dispute.

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H. L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken was an American journalist, editor, critic, and student of language whose sharp essays shaped national literary debate during the early twentieth century. A Personal Word is a sixteen-page pamphlet issued in 1921 to promote The Smart Set, the magazine he edited with George Jean Nathan.

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First published
1919
Reading time
About 4 hours
Pages
132
Language
English
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Linda Johnson, Shasta, DrPGould and others