In 1977, Bennington College alumna Edith Barbour Andrews
established the Ben Belitt Lectureships in gratitude to her teacher
Ben Belitt and dedicated the publication of the lectures (in the
form of chapbooks) to the memory of William Troy, another of her
beloved teachers. The collection, published here in one volume,
comprises lectures by some of the most inspiring writers and
keenest critics of our time. In his introduciton to The Ordering
Mirror, Phillip Lopate contrasts the anticipations and the
audience/lecturer dynamic inherent in attending yearly lecture,
with the experience of reading them, and the opportunity for
reflection and comparison. Lopate summarizes that, "It is enough to
appreciate that we are watching masters of the game of
essay-writing, who, even as they comment on the masterpieces of
other writers, practice their own wizardry." The volume includes:
George Steiner, "The Uncommon Reader" (1978) Frank Kermode,
"Divination" (1979) Harold Bloom, "To the Tally of My Soul:
Whitman's Image of Voice" (1980) Denis Donoghue, "The Politics of
Modern Criticism" (1981) Irving Howe, "The Making of a Critic"
(1982) Richard Ellman, "The Uses of Decadence: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce"
(1983) Bernard Malamud, "Long Work, Short Life" (1984) Ben Belitt,
"Literature and Belief: Three 'Spiritual Exercises'" (1985) Saul
Bellow, "Summations" (1987) Hugh Kenner, "Magics and Spells (about
curses, charms, and riddles)" (1987) Richard Rorty, "The Barber of
Kasbeam: Nabokov on Cruelty" (1988) Rene Girard, "Collective
Violence and Sacrifice in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar" (1989)
Nadine Gordimer, "Three in a Bed: Fiction, Morals and Politics"
(1990) Seamus Heaney, "Dylan the Durable?: On Dylan Thomas" (1992)
Cynthia Ozick, "What Henry James Knew" (1992)
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