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.
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| Author | Katherine Anne Porter |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Essays |
| Publisher | Delacorte Press |
Publication date | 1970 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 496 |
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]
References
edit- ^ Unrue, Darlene Harbour. "Katherine Anne Porter". Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
- ^ 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.