Neutered Valentines
David Bromwich: James Agee, 7 September 2006
‘Let Us Now Praise Famous Men’, ‘A Death in the Family’, Shorter Fiction
by James Agee.
Library of America, 818 pp., $35, October 2005,1 931082 81 2 Show More
by James Agee.
Library of America, 818 pp., $35, October 2005,
Film Writing and Selected Journalism
by James Agee.
Library of America, 748 pp., $40, October 2005,1 931082 82 0 Show More
by James Agee.
Library of America, 748 pp., $40, October 2005,
“... crops up in the dedicatory verses, comparing the mission of Agee and Evans to that of Edgar in King Lear: ‘Edgar, weeping for pity, to the shelf of that sick bluff,/Bring your blind father, and describe a little.’ But they are not much like Edgar, not on the scene to show and expound suffering to the sufferers; and one of Agee’s truest points will be ... ”