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Bright pages : Yale writers, 1701-2001

Title
Bright pages : Yale writers, 1701-2001 / edited and with an introduction by J.D. McClatchy.
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2001], ©2001.

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Additional Authors
McClatchy, J. D., 1945-2018.
Description
xvi, 574 pages; 26 cm
Subjects
Contents
  • from Hiroshima / John Hersey -- Masts at Dawn -- Birth of Love -- Rattlesnake Country -- Evening Hawk / Robert Penn Warren -- Adam's Task -- The Mad Potter -- An Old-Fashioned Song -- X's Syndrome / John Hollander -- Miserere / Robert Stone -- from Here at "The New Yorker" / Brendan Gill -- from A Night to Remember / Walter Lord -- from Battle Report -- National Cold Storage Company -- Riding Westward / Harvey Shapiro -- from A Separate Peace / John Knowles -- from Peter the Great / Robert K. Massie -- Lumumba Lives / Peter Matthiessen -- The Harpsichord / William F. Buckley, Jr. -- from The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 / David McCullough -- from The Mysteries Within / Sherwin B. Nuland -- A Bamboo Brushpot -- Wild Ducks -- The Tack / Stephen Sandy -- At Snowbird -- Cape Cod Beach -- The Battle Against Humbaba / David R. Slavitt -- from the Destiny of Me / Larry Kramer -- from Messages from My Father / Calvin Trillin --
  • from The Bonfire of the Vanities / Tom Wolfe -- from The Dining Room / A. R. Gurney -- The Cure / Romulus Linney -- The Next Time -- Some Last Words -- The View / Mark Strand -- from King of the Jews / Leslie Epstein -- from Six Degrees of Separation / John Guare -- The Lion and Me / John Lahr -- Nabokov's Blues -- Onions -- 107th & Amsterdam / William Matthews -- from The Bushwhacked Piano / Thomas McGuane -- Puck / Paul Monette -- Things Left Undone / Christopher Tilghman -- from The Bundled Doonesbury: A Pre-Millennial Anthology / Garry Trudeau -- Garbo -- Music Lessons -- Small Town -- The Past / William Logan -- from Terra Nova / Ted Tally -- The U.S.A. Today -- Apologia -- My Poem Meets Tamerlane / George Bradley -- What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? / Christopher Buckley -- Moment -- 5 P.M. -- Portrait: Marriage / Rosanna Warren -- from The Heidi Chronicles / Wendy Wasserstein -- Deer Isle -- I-91 -- Five Islands --
  • During the Balkans War / Karl Kirchwey -- from La Bete / David Hirson -- Mystery Date -- The Memory-Glass / Martha Hollander -- Crossing St. Gotthard / David Leavitt -- from The Women of Brewster Place / Gloria Naylor -- The Venus Hottentot -- Stravinsky in L.A. / Elizabeth Alexander -- The Volunteers / Change-rae Lee -- A Simple Tale / Claire Messud -- Oh Muse -- To Be In My Own Body As / Craig Arnold -- Commands for the End of Summer -- Blue Octavo Haiku -- And This Time I Mean It / Rachel Wetzsteon -- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God / Jonathan Edwards -- from The Columbiad / Joel Barlow -- from M'Fingal / John Trumbull -- Columbia / Timothy Dwight -- from Dissertations on the English Language / Noah Webster -- The Fugitive Slave's Apostrophe to the North Star / John Pierpont -- from The Pioneers / James Fenimore Cooper -- The Confessional -- Unseen Spirits -- City Lyrics -- To Charles Roux, of Switzerland / Nathaniel Parker Willis --
  • The Blue and the Gray / Francis Miles Finch -- from Life with Father / Clarence Day -- from Stover at Yale / Owen Johnson -- from Babbitt / Sinclair Lewis -- Ars Poetica -- You, Andrew Marvell -- Landscape as a Nude / Archibald MacLeish -- from The Philadelphia Story / Philip Barry -- American Names -- The Devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Bull Dog -- Antoinette Birby -- We Are Prom Girls -- A Member of the Yale Elizabethan Club -- I Want to Row on the Crew -- I've a Shooting Box in Scotland -- Just One of Those Things -- Anything Goes -- I Get a Kick Out of You / Cole Porter -- Pullman Car Hiawatha.
ISBN
  • 0300089449 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0300089457 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
00111040
OCLC
  • 46988247
  • ocm46988247
  • SCSB-4131684
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries