A Hundred Himalayas: Essays on Life and Literature

by Sydney Lea

Book Overview

In A Hundred Himalayas, Sydney Lea has collected a group of essays written over 30 years, representing what he refers to as the persistence of preoccupations and the absence of theory---a group of speculations, each one a single Himalaya, together a great elevation achieved in small increments. His musings on his own "favored genius," Robert Frost, his own approach to literary criticism, imagination, the American nature essay, rural life,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472051881
• ISBN13: 9780472051885
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"