More than 100 pieces in this surprising and impressive collection
are drawn from a body of Willa Cather's writing that was not known
to exist until its recent discovery by the editor. Previous
scholars have assumed that Willa Cather was inactive as a
journalist during the year following her graduation from the
university in June, 1895; the truth is, she not only continued to
contribute drama criticism to Lincoln newspapers, but also, in Miss
Slote's words, had time to "consider thoughtfully and work out some
of the guiding principles of fiction, the certain range in the
Kingdom of Art which was becoming . . . her own." Miss Slote has
focused on those of the 1893-1896 writings in which Willa Cather
formulates and tests her critical attitudes, and on those-even more
crucially relevant to her own situation-in which she asks the great
questions: What makes an artist? How does one join the two selves
of artist and person? Exactly how can one create the creation? Part
I presents two essays by the editor: "Writer in Nebraska,"
incorporating new biographical material, and "The Kingdom of Art,"
a critical reassessment in the light of new findings. Part II
consists of some 220 selections accompanied by extensive editorial
commentary, grouped as follows: "The Individual
Talent"-observations on artists who lives evoked Willa Cather's
sympathy, wonder, or respect, and who success or failure seemed to
embody the principles of human endeavor; "The Way of the World"-on
art in Philistia, the relations of things (e.g., poetry and
football), and history in the arts; "Drama"-pieces on the
playwright and his craft and the critic's responsibilities, as well
as lay reviews; "Literature"-major essays on Stevenson, Dumas, Poe,
Wilde, Verlaine, Ruskin, and Pierre Loti, and shorter pieces on
such writers as Hardy, James, Swinburne, Kipling, Burns, Zola,
Tolstoi, and Whitman; and "Improvisations Toward a Credo,
1894-1896"-culminating in two statements in which as last, as the
editor notes, "Willa Cather could recognize clearly the emerging
form of the artist-self she had been seeking, and with it the
individual talent in which all credos must begin."
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