Bibliograph

Ear training, literary essays, William H. Pritchard

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Ear training, literary essays, William H. Pritchard

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

essays

Main title

Ear training

Oclc number

1410119624

Responsibility statement

William H. Pritchard

Sub title

literary essays

Summary

"Ear Training gathers thirty essays and reviews by one of America's most playful critics. Known for his long career as a professor and writer of critical biographies, for this collection William H. Pritchard has selected some of his favorite shorter pieces on a wide range of topics. United by Pritchard's philosophy of literature, which he calls "ear training", pieces on subjects from John Updike to Emily Dickinson to Frank Sinatra to the soap opera The Young and the Restless urge us to consider how literature sounds and how a sense of play in our approach to the world can uncover buried truths and meanings. Also included are the series of letters Pritchard wrote to his students in the early months of the COVID pandemic in 2020, meant to offer commentary on four English writers--Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Samuel Johnson. Throughout the collection Pritchard urges the reader to engage with texts he has found particularly delightful and illuminating, taking us on a tour of the world as he has heard it through poetry, prose, music, and the voices of people he has known."--, Amazon

Table Of Contents

Novelists -- Poets and poetry -- Critics, criticism -- Epistolary -- Music, Musicians -- Teaching -- To the students

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