The Best of the Kenyon Review

About this book

The first collection from the archives of this beloved literary journal Featuring remarkable works from dozens of acclaimed writers this is an anthology of the best poems short stories and essays that first appeared in The Kenyon Review one of the worlds most influential literary journals. This whos who of literature contains pieces by current National Book Award winner Ruth Stone and: William Carlos Williams Randall Jarrell F. Scott Fitzgerald Federico Garcia Lorca E.L. Doctorow John Berryman Dylan Thomas Allen Tate Marianne Moore F.O. Matthiessen Muriel Rukeyser Bertolt Brecht John Crowe Ransom Wallace Stevens Robert Lowell W.H. Auden Sean OFaolain James Wright Flannery OConnor Konstantinos Kavaphes Peter Taylor Delmore Schwartz Thomas Pynchon Sylvia Plath James Dickey Nadine Gordimer Doris Lessing Julio Cortzar Robert Hass Vladimir Nabokov Samuel Beckett Lewis Hyde Galway Kinnell Derek Walcott Woody Allen Rita Dove Italo Calvino Louise Erdrich Gerald Early Reginald McKnight Philip Levine Yusef Komunyakaa Richard Howard Eavan Boland Ha Jin Joyce Carol Oates Thomas Glave Charles Wright