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- catalog abstract "In this splendid group portrait, David Laskin tells the stories of four friendships that helped to define the course of American literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, Henry James and Edith Wharton, Katherine Anne Porter and Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Written with uncommon grace and insight, A Common Life is a fascinating narrative of the entanglements of art and life, and an illuminating study of the nature of friendship itself. In each of these pairings, the two writers met at a critical turning point in their lives and careers, and the friendship profoundly affected the course of both. The friendships came as great shafts of light, throwing open new possibilities and relieving the numbing isolation of American literary life. The "shock of recognition" that passed between Melville and Hawthorne when they met in the Berkshires in 1850 changed the course of Melville's masterpiece, Moby-Dick. Edith Wharton was nearly forty, rich, and unhappily married when she met the sixty-year-old Henry James in London in 1903. His thunderous advice to "Do New York!" steered her toward her first triumph with The House of Mirth. Each friendship sprang from shared literary and personal admiration. But in time, each showed the strains of rivalry, resentment, anger, disappointment, and nasty gossip - hazards perhaps inherent in intimate relationships between writers. Welty became furious when the publication of her first book had to be postponed because the notoriously unreliable Porter had failed to finish her introduction to the book on time. Bishop and Lowell teetered for years on the brink of a love affair, and Bishop felt all the more betrayed when Lowell took a passage from her most anguished letter to him and "versed" it word for word into one of his poems. Love and loathing, reverence and revenge played their roles in all four of these intense relationships. - Publisher.".
- catalog contributor b5935960.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "In this splendid group portrait, David Laskin tells the stories of four friendships that helped to define the course of American literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, Henry James and Edith Wharton, Katherine Anne Porter and Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Written with uncommon grace and insight, A Common Life is a fascinating narrative of the entanglements of art and life, and an illuminating study of the nature of friendship itself. In each of these pairings, the two writers met at a critical turning point in their lives and careers, and the friendship profoundly affected the course of both. The friendships came as great shafts of light, throwing open new possibilities and relieving the numbing isolation of American literary life. The "shock of recognition" that passed between Melville and Hawthorne when they met in the Berkshires in 1850 changed the course of Melville's masterpiece, Moby-Dick. Edith Wharton was nearly forty, rich, and unhappily married when she met the sixty-year-old Henry James in London in 1903. His thunderous advice to "Do New York!" steered her toward her first triumph with The House of Mirth. Each friendship sprang from shared literary and personal admiration. But in time, each showed the strains of rivalry, resentment, anger, disappointment, and nasty gossip - hazards perhaps inherent in intimate relationships between writers. Welty became furious when the publication of her first book had to be postponed because the notoriously unreliable Porter had failed to finish her introduction to the book on time. Bishop and Lowell teetered for years on the brink of a love affair, and Bishop felt all the more betrayed when Lowell took a passage from her most anguished letter to him and "versed" it word for word into one of his poems. Love and loathing, reverence and revenge played their roles in all four of these intense relationships. - Publisher.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. Turkey and thunder -- Fire worship -- Infinite fraternity and the negatives of flesh -- The downlook -- Intergenerational : Hawthorne and Melville to James and Wharton -- pt. 2. Henry James and Edith Wharton. On the road -- Sex and money -- Literary rough and tumbles -- Little old New York -- This crash of our civilization -- Intergenerational : James and Wharton to Porter and Welty -- pt. 3. Katherine Anne Porter and Eudora Welty. The most unburdensome friendship -- Fellow colonists -- Too much life and too little -- House and garden -- Drifting apart -- Battles lost and won -- The legend of the past -- Intergenerational : Porter and Welty to Bishop and Lowell -- pt. 4. Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Castine, Maine, August 1957 : ten years later -- Stonington, Maine, 1948 : the other life that might have been -- The unbroken draught of poison : madness and alcoholism -- Another inscrutable house -- Pity the planet : 1960s politics -- What we're really like in 1972 : the rift over The Dolphin -- Unerring muse, sad friend.".
- catalog extent "460 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Common life.".
- catalog identifier "0671724193".
- catalog isFormatOf "Common life.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Simon & Schuster,".
- catalog relation "Common life.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "810.9 B 20".
- catalog subject "Authors, American 19th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Authors, American 19th century Friends and associates.".
- catalog subject "Authors, American 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Authors, American 20th century Friends and associates.".
- catalog subject "Authors, American Biography.".
- catalog subject "Friendship United States History.".
- catalog subject "Friendship United States.".
- catalog subject "Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)".
- catalog subject "PS129 .L28 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. Turkey and thunder -- Fire worship -- Infinite fraternity and the negatives of flesh -- The downlook -- Intergenerational : Hawthorne and Melville to James and Wharton -- pt. 2. Henry James and Edith Wharton. On the road -- Sex and money -- Literary rough and tumbles -- Little old New York -- This crash of our civilization -- Intergenerational : James and Wharton to Porter and Welty -- pt. 3. Katherine Anne Porter and Eudora Welty. The most unburdensome friendship -- Fellow colonists -- Too much life and too little -- House and garden -- Drifting apart -- Battles lost and won -- The legend of the past -- Intergenerational : Porter and Welty to Bishop and Lowell -- pt. 4. Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Castine, Maine, August 1957 : ten years later -- Stonington, Maine, 1948 : the other life that might have been -- The unbroken draught of poison : madness and alcoholism -- Another inscrutable house -- Pity the planet : 1960s politics -- What we're really like in 1972 : the rift over The Dolphin -- Unerring muse, sad friend.".
- catalog title "A common life : four generations of American literary friendship and influence / David Laskin.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".