Title: Huneker -- Neglected and Forgotten -- WHY?
Product review: James Gibbon Huneker was a critic of the Seven Arts. He wrote criticsm of literature, painting, philosophy, music, sculpture, and much more. He even wrote some fiction of his own but he is best known for his criticism and for his being way ahead of his time. He was praising Ibsen when Ibsen wasn't cool, etc. IN addition to being a critic of great taste and acumen he writes some of the best prose I have ever read (and I have read a lot of prose). He wrote lines like, "I heard the call of music and obeyed it, and have regretted it ever since -- that is, when I look at my bank book." If want to read good English, hear snappy anecdotes (he was the man who first showed Dvorak around New York, he exchanged letters with H.L. Mencken, G.B. Shaw, Nietzsche, and others), and learn the names of other forgotten writers (Havelock Ellis, Edgar Saltus, etc.) then give him a try. Another more accessible book by the same author is Ivory, Apes, and Peacocks.
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