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The Hunter GracchusAnd Other Papers on Literature and Art. Washington, DC: Counterpoint; distributed by Publishers Group West, 1996.

Contents: 

  • Introductory Note
  • The Hunter Gracchus
  • On Reading
  • Tom and Gene
  • Taking Up Serpents
  • Shaker Light  [ "Celebrating the Shaker Vision" House & Garden ( July 1986)]
  • Joyce the Reader
  • II Timothy
  • Civilization and Its Opposite in the 1940s
  • Style as Protagonist in Donald Barthelme
  • Stanley Spencer and David Jones
  • Wheel Ruts
  • Eros, His Intelligence
  • A Letter to the Masterbuilder
  • Two Notes on Wallace Stevens
  • Jack Sharpless
  • Thoreau and the Dispersion of Seeds
  • Life, Chance, and Charles Darwin
  • Lenard Moore
  • Guernica
  • Late Gertrude
  • O. Henry
  • Gerald Barrax
  • Calvino:  Six Memos for the Next Millennium
  • Journal I
  • Gibbon
  • Journal II
  • What Are Revolutions?
  • Walt Whitman and Ronald Johnson
  • Grant Wood's The Good Influence
  • Writing Untied and Retied as Drawing
  • The Drawings of Paul Cadmus
  • Micrographs
  • Mr. Hawthorne, of Salem
  • The Comic Muse
  • Travel Reconsidered
  • Keeping Time
  • The Sage of Slabsides
  • John Cheever in Paradise
  • Stephen Crane
  • Ruskin According to Proust

Note:  Previous publications of these essays are listed on page [341].  (this statement is in the 1997 paperback edition)

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