Sam S Baskett
Biographic Data
| ID | 679731 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sam S Baskett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sam S |
| FAMILY NAME | Baskett |
| SIGNATURE | BASKETT S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sam S. Baskett, Professor of English (emeritus) at Michigan State University, has written essays on a number of writers, including Jack London, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and, most recently, the Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk. He has taught internationally in Mexico, Turkey, Japan, and the United Kingdom. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Making of an Image
Emily Dickinson's startling image, “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died,” incorporates aspects of Hawthorne's “common house-fly” in Seven Gables, which echoes elements of Tennyson's image in “Mariana.” Aware of her predecessors' images, Dickinson, through her characteristic synaesthetic interfusion of sensory experiences, “translates” her “blue fly” into something new and strange
Sea Change in 'The Sea-Wolf'
Fronting the Atlantic
IN 1959, when awarded Emerson-Thoreau medal by American Academy of Arts and Sciences, T. S. Eliot designated himself New England poet-as is my elder contemporary, Robert Frost, and as is my junior contemporary, Robert Lowell. Eliot spoke of being influenced by emotionally charged New England landscape and concluded by hoping that his remarks would shed some light upon poem I am about to read, The Dry Salvages.'1 Discouraged, perhaps, by Eliot's w…
Letters from Jack London
Jack London
Jack London's Heart of Darkness
ALTHOUGH there are certain obvious similarities in the fiction of Jack London and Joseph Conrad-both wrote tales of the sea well stories set in exotic lands, and frequently both peopled their fiction with rough characters engaged in violent action-Conrad's different emphasis, surer craftsmanship and more profound insight into the psychological motivations of his characters have made these similarities seem relatively inconsequential. London is of…
Jack London on the Oakland Waterfront
I N TEN chapters of John Barleycorn, almost a third of the book, Jack London gives a convincing, colorful description of his experiences on the Oakland waterfront during the early I890's, stealing oysters, drinking grandly and, later, enforcing the fish laws. London's principal biographers (his wife, Charmian; his daughter, Joan; and Irving Stone) have all incorporated into their works a number of the experiences described in John Barleycorn, fre…
Jack London's Heart of Darkness
ALTHOUGH there are certain obvious similarities in the fiction of Jack London and Joseph Conrad-both wrote tales of the sea well stories set in exotic lands, and frequently both peopled their fiction with rough characters engaged in violent action-Conrad's different emphasis, surer craftsmanship and more profound insight into the psychological motivations of his characters have made these similarities seem relatively inconsequential. London is of…
Jack London on the Oakland Waterfront
I N TEN chapters of John Barleycorn, almost a third of the book, Jack London gives a convincing, colorful description of his experiences on the Oakland waterfront during the early I890's, stealing oysters, drinking grandly and, later, enforcing the fish laws. London's principal biographers (his wife, Charmian; his daughter, Joan; and Irving Stone) have all incorporated into their works a number of the experiences described in John Barleycorn, fre…
Jack London's Heart of Darkness
ALTHOUGH there are certain obvious similarities in the fiction of Jack London and Joseph Conrad-both wrote tales of the sea well stories set in exotic lands, and frequently both peopled their fiction with rough characters engaged in violent action-Conrad's different emphasis, surer craftsmanship and more profound insight into the psychological motivations of his characters have made these similarities seem relatively inconsequential. London is of…
Jack London
Letters from Jack London
Fronting the Atlantic
IN 1959, when awarded Emerson-Thoreau medal by American Academy of Arts and Sciences, T. S. Eliot designated himself New England poet-as is my elder contemporary, Robert Frost, and as is my junior contemporary, Robert Lowell. Eliot spoke of being influenced by emotionally charged New England landscape and concluded by hoping that his remarks would shed some light upon poem I am about to read, The Dry Salvages.'1 Discouraged, perhaps, by Eliot's w…
Sea Change in 'The Sea-Wolf'
The Making of an Image
Emily Dickinson's startling image, “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died,” incorporates aspects of Hawthorne's “common house-fly” in Seven Gables, which echoes elements of Tennyson's image in “Mariana.” Aware of her predecessors' images, Dickinson, through her characteristic synaesthetic interfusion of sensory experiences, “translates” her “blue fly” into something new and strange
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