Marius bewley biography

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Books by Marius Bewley

The House Of Seven Gables
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3.45 avg rating — 41,550 ratings — published 1851 — 12 editions

The Selected Poetry
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3.91 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 1950 — 20 editions

Modern Critical Interpretations The Great Gatsby
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3.82 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 1986 — 16 editions

English hours by Henry James with illustrations by Joseph Pennell
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3.56 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1905 — 89 editions

The English Romantic Poets: An Anthology With Commentaries
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1970

Masks & mirrors: essays in criticism
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions

The Eccentric Design: Form in the Classic American Novel
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1963 — 9 editions

Masks and Mirrors: Essays in Criticism.
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1974

Complex Fate: Hawthorne, Henry James and Some American Writers
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The Complex Fate: Hawthorne, Henry James, and Some Other American Writers
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The Complex Fate: Ha

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Marius Bewley

Marius Bewley (1916–1973) was a British-American literary critic. Educated at Cambridge, Bewley taught English literature at Rutgers and was an advisory editor atThe Hudson Review.

Good Manners

The Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice

edited by E.R. Dodds

High and Low

by John Betjeman

Collected Poems 1930-1965

by A.D. Hope

May 18, 1967 issue

Split in Twain

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography

by Justin Kaplan

September 8, 1966 issue

Lines

The Old Adam

by D.J. Enright

Thousand-Year-Old Fiancee & Other Poems

by Robert Sward

Selected Poems

by Louis Simpson

Collected Poems of Rolfe Humphries

by Rolfe Humphries

Selected Poems

by Richard Eberhart

Love Poems (Tentative Title)

by Frank O'Hara

The Wooden Horse

by Daryl Hine

Knock Upon Silence

by Carolyn Kizer

March 31, 1966 issue

Barefoot into Reality

Poets of Reality: Six Twentieth-Century Writers

by J. Hillis Miller

January 20, 1966 issue

Lone Rangers

Wah-to-yah and the Taos Trail

by Lewis H. Garrard, Introduction by A.B. Guthrie Jr.

The Western Hero in History and Legend

by Kent Ladd Steckmesser

October 28, 1965 issue

Great Scott

The Apprentice Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1909-1917

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