Originally published 1909 | ||
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Arnold Bennett books Books and Persons, Hilda Lessways, Helen with a High Hand, The author's craft, These Twain | ||
Literary Taste: How to Form it is a long essay by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1909, with a revised edition by his friend Frank Swinnerton appearing in 1937. It includes a long list of recommended books, every item individually costed.
Contents
- Outline
- Library
- Prose
- Poetry
- Novelists
- Non novelists
- Poets
- Novelists and dramatists
- Other prose
- Appendix Penguin edition
- References
Both the essay and the list were very influential, although Bennett's decision to include only books originally written in English (along with a handful of Latin works) makes it extremely insular compared with most other attempts at compiling a literary canon.
Outline
- The Aim
- Your Particular Case
- Why a Classic is a Classic
- Where to Begin
- How to Read a Classic (using Charles Lamb's Dream Children)
- The Question of Style
- Wrestling with an Author
- System in Reading
- Verse (Hazlitt's On Poetry in General, Isaiah ch. 40, Wordsworth's The Brothers, E. Browning's Aurora Leigh)
- Broad Counsels
Library
Period IV only appears in the second edition by Swinnerton.
The symbol * denotes first edition only. The symbol † denotes second edition only.
Prose
Poetry
Prose
Poetry
Novelists
Non-novelists
Poets
Novelists and dramatists
Other prose
Poets
Appendix (Penguin edition)
The Penguin edition of 1938 included an appendix of books they were offering in paperback for sixpence a volume. Those not already appearing above were:
References
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