Taylor and Francis Fraser, R: Moderns Worth Keeping

In this new volume, Fraser assembles fourteen twentieth-century writers,. From playwrights Oscar Wilde and J. M. Synge to novelist Kingsley Amis and poet James Dickey, who he judges "worth keeping." All were famous in their time, but many outlived it, enduring an eclipse that Fraser intends this book to dispel. Each of the authors differs in background and in the kinds of writing practiced, and while together they do not constitute a modern canon, Fraser persuasively presents them as a group distinguished by a more than ordinary affiliation for language. ...