Patrick Murtha
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Anyone with a serious interest in literature and literary history should get a total kick out of this 1950 volume. Immensely informative and entertaining.
Richard Altick, The Scholar Adventurers
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Patrick Murtha
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One of the delights of the Altick volume is a 13-page section of Bibliographic Notes. Any non-fiction book that contains especially good (end or foot)notes, (preferably annotated) bibliography, bibliographic notes or essay, etc, has my everlasting gratitude, because I really will comb through those for other materials I want to follow up on. Books are findable most of the time; journal articles are a bear (American colloquial for “difficult situation”). Fortunately I have JSTOR access through being a Yale alumni, that helps with some articles. I would like to collect old scholarly journals and such, but my financial resources are not unlimited. ?
I am certain that I will order at least a dozen books mentioned in the Altick notes, not all immediately but eventually. Two other books I have recently found a wealth of follow-up in are Lewis Mumford’s The City in History (which has an impressive annotated Bibliography) and Rodman W. Paul’s Mining Frontiers of the Far West (killer endnotes).
I am certain that I will order at least a dozen books mentioned in the Altick notes, not all immediately but eventually. Two other books I have recently found a wealth of follow-up in are Lewis Mumford’s The City in History (which has an impressive annotated Bibliography) and Rodman W. Paul’s Mining Frontiers of the Far West (killer endnotes).