Author Description

1924. The author is a radical and a classicist. And humble as he is, he is in amazingly good company - Plato, Euripides, Montaigne, Milton, Shelley, Goethe, Nietzsche. Lewisohn knew from the beginning he would please no one. When he writes fiction, he was told he was a licentious fellow. This volume contains essays found under the following heads: creative life; forms and the world; tale that is told; creative criticism; masks; literature and life; epilogue.