The Literary Mind; Its Place in an Age of Science, by Max Eastman by Eastman, Max, 1883-1969

New York, London, Charles Scribner̓s Sons, 1931. Hard Cover. ix p., 2 L., 3-343 p. 22 cm. Contents: The March of Science; Literature on the Defensive: The Swan-Song of Humane Letters; The Resurrection of the Scholar-Gentleman; Literature in Retreat: The Cult of Unintelligibility; The Tendency Toward Pure Poetry; Poets Talking to Themselves; Division of Labor in Literature; Toward a Science of Literature: What Poetry Is; Art & Biology; The Future of Literature: Are Poetry & Drama Dying? Is the Novel at a Dead End? The Realm of Literary Truth; The Problem of Criticism; The Teacher of Literature: A Note on I.A. Richards' Psychology of Poetry. In chapters "The cult of unintelligibility" "Poets talking to themselves" he criticized James Joyce, E.E. Cummings, Gertrude Stein, and other moderns." "Notes and references": p. 321-343. From the library of Prof. Vincent Tomas of the Brown University Department of Philosophy, with pencil underling. Stock# 44,748. Good+, spine worn / no dj.