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Dreiser: The Press of Life
Flint, B. F. | April 27, 1957 issue

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The article presents books and authors. Author F.O. Matthiessen, during his last year, was writing his book on novelist Theodore Dreiser, and the critical reaction to that excellent book was colored by a dozen distorting passions and feelings. Only authors Saul Bellow and John Berryman, of the few critics, did it anything like justice. But Matthiessen had not written either an introduction nor a satisfactory conclusion to his book and had not really developed the implications in his dual allegiance to authors T. S. Eliot and Dreiser, the man of consummate intellectual refinement and the man of great intellectual powers but no sophistication whatsoever.

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AUTHORS; MATTHIESSEN, F. O. (Francis Otto), 1902-1950; DREISER, Theodore, 1871-1945; ELIOT, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965; LITERATURE; AUTHORSHIP
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