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Description:In January of 1924, Thomas Wolfe, A.M., twenty-three years old and a promising member of George Pierce Baker's 47 Workshop at Harvard, wrote to Homer Andrew Watt to apply for a post as Instructor in English. Professor Watt, Chairman of the Department of English in what was then simply called the Washington Square College of New York University, found himself liking the letter and feeling that he might come to like the writer. It was a feeling corroborated by the event, and very early in Wolfe's tenure the fledgling instructor and the mature professor formed a relationship filled with genuine sincerity on the one side, with generous consideration and discernment on the other, and with mutual affection on both.The letters incorporating this relationship as it developed over the six-year period of Wolfe's association with New York University, 1924–1930, edited with an Introduction by Dean Pollock, make up The Correspondence of Thomas Wolfe and Homer Andrew Watt. A correspondence of no ordinary kind, it reflects a great deal more than just official connection. Wolfe, whose pen was forever irrepressible, filled his letters with such flashes as "The most reckless people, I believe, are those who never gamble," and his department head reveals his astute understanding in twinkling perceptions like "Your ability to land on your feet . . . makes me think that you are more like a Thomas cat than a Thomas Wolfe."Professor Watt, almost on the eve of his death in 1948, stated that his relation with the author of Look Homeward, Angel was the most important part of his career as a departmental administrator and expressed his hope that the surviving correspondence might be published under its present editorship for the benefit of the Thomas Wolfe Scholarship Fund for the Study of American Literature. Of that hope this volume is the fulfilment.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Correspondence of Thomas Wolfe and Homer Andrew Watt. To get started finding The Correspondence of Thomas Wolfe and Homer Andrew Watt, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: New York University Press

Release: 1954

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Description: In January of 1924, Thomas Wolfe, A.M., twenty-three years old and a promising member of George Pierce Baker's 47 Workshop at Harvard, wrote to Homer Andrew Watt to apply for a post as Instructor in English. Professor Watt, Chairman of the Department of English in what was then simply called the Washington Square College of New York University, found himself liking the letter and feeling that he might come to like the writer. It was a feeling corroborated by the event, and very early in Wolfe's tenure the fledgling instructor and the mature professor formed a relationship filled with genuine sincerity on the one side, with generous consideration and discernment on the other, and with mutual affection on both.The letters incorporating this relationship as it developed over the six-year period of Wolfe's association with New York University, 1924–1930, edited with an Introduction by Dean Pollock, make up The Correspondence of Thomas Wolfe and Homer Andrew Watt. A correspondence of no ordinary kind, it reflects a great deal more than just official connection. Wolfe, whose pen was forever irrepressible, filled his letters with such flashes as "The most reckless people, I believe, are those who never gamble," and his department head reveals his astute understanding in twinkling perceptions like "Your ability to land on your feet . . . makes me think that you are more like a Thomas cat than a Thomas Wolfe."Professor Watt, almost on the eve of his death in 1948, stated that his relation with the author of Look Homeward, Angel was the most important part of his career as a departmental administrator and expressed his hope that the surviving correspondence might be published under its present editorship for the benefit of the Thomas Wolfe Scholarship Fund for the Study of American Literature. Of that hope this volume is the fulfilment.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Correspondence of Thomas Wolfe and Homer Andrew Watt. To get started finding The Correspondence of Thomas Wolfe and Homer Andrew Watt, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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