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Moss, Howard was born on January 22, 1922 in New York City. Son of David L. and Sonya (Schrag) Moss.
( "The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust reduces the ungainl...)
"The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust reduces the ungainly and intricately designed masterpiece to its shape, and with hardly a wasted word...The paragraphs on habit and memory are truly wonderfulwonderful as explication, as psychology, and as philosophy."John Updike "Almost everything Moss says seems to me right, illuminating, and new. This is the book of a mature and individual mind and sensibility, with a deep experience of moral, social, psychological, and aesthetic values which is rare among critics." George D. Painter "A moving and inspiring book. Moss clears away dark corners, clarifies motivations, and places the huge work within the reader's perspective. A book of great value to the scholar and the general reader." Publishers Weekly "Remembrance of Things Past is more than a novel; it is a work in which a single person's life is transformed into a mythology, with its own pantheon of gods, its own religious rituals, and its own moral laws. A total vision, it does not rely on any system outside itself for support. It is as if Dante had set out to write the Paradiso and the Inferno utilizing only the facts of his own existence without any reference to Christianity...Other novelists describe or invent worlds. Remembrance of Things Past is an entire universe created and interpreted by Marcel Proust." from Chapter 1 "Moss lays out the sweeping claims and overarching structure of Remembrance of Things Pastthe significance of Swann's Way and the Guermantes Way, or why there are such long party scenesand is equally good at bringing to light all sorts of tiny, revealing details." from the new Foreword by Damion Searls Howard Moss was poetry editor of the New Yorker for almost forty years. He also wrote more than a dozen books of poetry, plays, criticism, and a book of arch parody-microbiographies of cultural figures, Instant Lives, illustrated by Edward Gorey. Damion Searls is the author of What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going (stories) and has written for Harper’s, Bookforum, n+1, and The Believer. As a translatorof authors including Marcel Proust (On Reading)he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012.
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Full Length Drama / The Queen and Edward meet, as if for the first time, and slowly discover that the are repeating, or are meant to repeat, the tragic action of Sophocles' Oedipus. The setting is ambiguous: at first abstract, then possibly a playroom in a suburban house, and, finally, the throne room of the palace at Thebes. Drawn to each other and to the fate that awaits them, the Queen and Edward, caught in an intense love-hate relationship, try to avoid a destiny that appears to be inevitable. Figure, the third actor, plays a various roles at various times: an Elizabethan fool, a stage manager, a disappointed actor, the Greek seer Tiresias. He is a foil and a dangerous one. The play is a study in jealousy and explores the relationship between an older woman and a young man. It is a play of shifting moods and changing tones, a modern investigation of a theme suggested by ancient Greek tragedy and a psychological play with historical tones. (Cast: 2 men, 1 woman: 3 total)
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In this short, straightforward, and beautifully written guide, Howard Moss deploys just the right touch of allure and explanation to enrich any reader's experience of Marcel Proust's great novel. Moss deftly describes the book's intricate form and recurrent themes, turning complications into pleasures to be enjoyed (rather than puzzles to be suffered). Read Moss on Proust before starting In Search of Lost Time, after finishing it, or any time in between.
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(This was Mr. Moss' first book of poetry. He was 24 years ...)
This was Mr. Moss' first book of poetry. He was 24 years old at the time. His first book echoes the all -too-familiar and shows the influence of Wallace Stevens, a poet whose work Moss greatly admired. Moss of course had many more books and his work at the New Yorker until 1987. Moss is greatly admired for his work.
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A fine book of criticism. In this superb collection of essays and critical appreciations, Moss' direct and incisive style deftly steers the reader along a perpetually intelligent, unerring course. For those who have read and admired many of these pieces when they first appeared in periodicals, it is wonderful to have them now all in one volume. This is an important, long-overdue collection.
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Moss, Howard was born on January 22, 1922 in New York City. Son of David L. and Sonya (Schrag) Moss.
Bachelor, University Wisconsin, 1944. Postgraduate, Columbia University. Postgraduate, Harvard.
University.
Book reviewer, Time magazine, 1943; instructor English, Vassar College, 1944-1945; adjunct Professor of English, Barnard College, 1975; adjunct Professor of English, Columbia University, 1977, 81, 83; adjunct Professor of English, University of California, Irvine, 1979; adjunct Professor of English, U. Houston, 1980, 83, 87; poetry editor, New Yorker magazine, 1948-1987; chancellor, Academy of American Poets, New York, 1987.
(In this short, straightforward, and beautifully written g...)
(Full Length Drama / The Queen and Edward meet, as if for ...)
( "The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust reduces the ungainl...)
(“What has been overlooked for too many years now is an ac...)
("What has been overlooked for too many years now is an ac...)
(Signed by the author, "To George MacBeth, in admiration, ...)
(Brief humorous poems inspired by plants with animals in t...)
(A special hand printed edition of this famous work.)
(Drawings by Edward Gorey. NY 1974-lst (stated) Saturday R...)
(A fine book of criticism. In this superb collection of es...)
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Judge National Book awards, 1964, 57. Judge Brandeis Creative award, 1962, Avery Hopwood award University Michigan, 1963. Fellow Academy American Poets, 1986.
Member P.E.N., Authors Guild, American Academy and Institute Arts and Letters.
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