Cuban Revolutionary and 'Apostle of Independence' presents an exemplary work of literary and artistic criticism, for which he was dubbed "the best literary critic in the Hispanic world".
Author(s): José MartÃ; Philip Sheldon Foner
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Year: 1982
Language: English
Tags: Cuba, Communism, Revolution, Criticism
Contents
Preface
Introduction by Philip S. Foner
I. Art and Artists
Painting: Felipe Gutierrez
A Visit to an Exhibition of Art
Continued
Concluded
Marat's Death
The Painter Carbo
Sculpture: Francisco Dumaine
Impulses of the Heart: A Play by Peon Contreras
The Metropolitan Museum
The 55th Exhibition in the National Academy of Design
Fromentin
The Runkle Collection
A Statue and a Sculptor
A Remarkable Mexican Painting
Fortuny
Edouard Detaille
The French Water-Colorists
Goya
Ancient American Man and His Primitive Art
A New Exhibition of Impressionist Painters
The Munkacsy Christ
Exhibition of Paintings by the Russian Vereshchagin
II. Literature and Literary Figures
Emerson
Walt Whitman, the Poet
Longfellow
Mark Twain
Louisa May Alcott
Aboriginal American Authors
Modern French Novelists
Heredia
Francisco Sellen
Julian del Casal
Charles Darwin
Modern Spanish Poets
The Pampa
Flaubert's Last Work
Pushkin
Oscar Wilde
Literary Matters
The Poem of Niagara
III. Jose Marti's Literary Will and Testament
Letter to Gonzalo de Quesada
IV. Chronology of the Life of Jose Marti
Index
