The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter

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The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter
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Author Katherine Anne Porter
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Essays
Publisher Delacorte Press
Publication date
1970
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages496

The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter is a book by Katherine Anne Porter published by Delacorte Press in 1970. The anthology includes critical, personal, and biographical essays; three sections of an unfinished work about Cotton Mather; book reviews; letters; and poems.

The Collected Essays, in addition to containing seventeen pieces, includes all thirty-two essays published in The Days Before in 1952. Like The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter and The Never-Ending Wrong, it consists of work Porter had written prior to her long novel Ship of Fools , which was published in 1962. [1]

In his review of the book in The Georgia Review in 1971, E.C. Bufkin wrote, "As a record of her thinking and feeling, the selections cover a period of almost half a century, and the book is a virtual cornucopia." [2]

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References

  1. Unrue, Darlene Harbour. "Katherine Anne Porter". Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
  2. Bufkin, E.C. "Reviewed Works: The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter ; Katherine Anne Porter: A Critical Symposium by Lodwick Hartley, George Core". The Georgia Review. 25 (2 (1971)): 247–252. JSTOR   41396787.