William Troy (1903-1961) was a highly regarded literary critic
during the 1930s and 1940s. Among his contemporaries, he ranked
with Edmund Wilson, Kenneth Burke, and F. O. Matthiessen. Indeed,
in the preface to the posthumous, 1968 publication of his Selected
Essays, which won a National Book Award, Allen Tate placed Troy
among the handful of the best critics of this century. Troys
criticism was informed by an intelligence so balanced that, where
many theoreticians took up positions in logical traps, he easily
avoided them. At the very moment when scholars and critics were
either treating literature like polemics or investigating ideas as
if belles-lettres were a sub-category of history or philosophy,
Troy acknowledged both the centrality of literary ideas and their
distinction from ideas in other forms. When confronted with a text,
he analysed it with a firm sense of its inherent meaning and of its
cultural implications, in a style that expresses seriousness of
commitment precisely and clearly. The Bookman presents a selection
of Troys remaining writings on such major literary figures as Henry
James, e. e. cummings, Ernest Hemingway, Edith Wharton, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, Andre Gide, William Faulkner, James Joyce,
Albert Camus, Jean Cocteau, Willa Cather, W. H. Auden, Virginia
Woolf, and Emile Zola. Troy produced a body of work that is
timeless, permanent, and exemplary -- perhaps as much as, if not
more so than, the work of such other critical contemporaries of his
as the Anglo-Americans Yvor Winters, I. A. Richards, William
Empson, George Jean Nathan, and R. P. Blackmur. Published in
conjunction with Film Nation: William Troy on the Cinema, 19331935
(ISBN 978-1-78976-173-3), The Bookman is clear evidence of Troys
role as one of the foremost critics of his age. Inclusion of a
substantive index makes the work an essential and accessible
gateway to a wide range of literary criticism.
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