Max Eastman: 3 books
by Max Eastman
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Humor at its best is a somewhat fluid and transitory element, but most books about it are illustrated with hardened old jokes from the comic papers, or classic witticisms jerked out of their context. Max Eastman, in this work, avoids this catastrophe by quoting mainly from contemporary American humor....
by Max Eastman
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The result of 10 years' worth of painstaking research, this volume, originally published in 1926 is a sympathetic critique of certain phases of revolutionary dictatorship in Russia. Among other things it focusses on the philosophy and psychology of Marxism, Marxian economics, Bolshevism, the philosophy...
by Max Eastman
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
An excellent primer for students of poetry, The Enjoyment of Poetry is an examination of literary metaphor from a psychological point of view, covering topics such as poetic people; imaginative realization; wine and sleep and poetry; poetry itself; to enjoy poetry; to compose poetry; the practical value of poetry; and the ideals of poetry.