Excerpt from Fanfare Mencken has rooted lustily for Dreiser ever since the latter first appeared upon the literary scene. He early discerned in the Indianan a new and Vital force in American letters, a sin cere and unflinching artist, pledged to present faithfully life as he had seen it. And when Dreiser was down and gasping under the onslaught of public and professional critics, Mencken stepped in, wielding his mighty cutlass, decapitated some half dozen of the more weighty anthropophagites, and drove the rest to ...
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Excerpt from Fanfare Mencken has rooted lustily for Dreiser ever since the latter first appeared upon the literary scene. He early discerned in the Indianan a new and Vital force in American letters, a sin cere and unflinching artist, pledged to present faithfully life as he had seen it. And when Dreiser was down and gasping under the onslaught of public and professional critics, Mencken stepped in, wielding his mighty cutlass, decapitated some half dozen of the more weighty anthropophagites, and drove the rest to cover. The fight is not over, but Mencken is holding them at bay and others have enlisted in his aid. He knows Dreiser's faults, of which there are many, and he points them out in his book, but he also knows Dreiser's merits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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