Wellek, Rene (Part I)., 01/01/1940-12/31/1956

6 Offprints by Rene Wellek. Titles include: "Periods and Movements in Literary History" from The State University of Iowa (1940); "A New History of English Literature", from "Modern Philology" (1949); "Wilhelm Dilthey's Poetics and Literary Theory", from "Festschrift fur Hermann Weigand" (1951); "Modern Czech Criticism and Literary Scholarship", from "Harvard Slavic Studies" (1954); "The Concept of Evolution in Literary History", from "For Roman Jakobson" (1956); and "Criticism of Criticism and Time in Literature", from "The Yale Review" (195). Also includes 4 Printed Book Reviews by Rene Wellek. Books reviewed include: Harris Francis Fletcher's "John Milton's Complete Poetical Works" from "Philological Quarterly" (1944); "Geoffrey Tillotson's "Essays in Criticism and Research", from "Modern Philology" (1944); Paul L. Garvin's "A Prague School Reader on Esthetics, Literary Structure, and Style", from "Language" (1955); and Charles E. Passage's "Dostoevski the Adapter: A Study in Dostoevski's Use of the Tales of Hoffman", from "The Journal of English and Germanic Philology" (1956). Include autograph inscriptions from the author to William K. Wimsatt, Jr.