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LITERATURE\n\nPublished  \nGEORGE ELIOT by Walter AllenCOLERIDGE by Walter Jackson BateT.S.ELIOT by Bernard BergonziGERARD MANLEY HOPKINS by Bernard BergonziMATTHEW ARNOLD by.Douglas BushJANE AUSTEN by Douglas BushJOHN KEATS by Douglas BushJOHN MILTON by Douglas BushIBSEN by Harold ClurmanJONATHAN SWIFT by Nigel DennisDANTE by Francis FergussonSTENDHAL by Wallace FowlieTHOMAS HARDY by Irving HoweHONORÉ BALZAc by E.J.OliverGOLDSMITH by Ricardo QuintanaTENNYSON by Christopher RicksTHE BRONTEs by Tom Winnifrith  \n# In Preparation\n\nPROUST by William BarrettFLAUBERT by Jacques BarzunSAMUEL JOHNSON by James L.CliffordEUGENE O'NEILL by Harold ClurmanEMILY DICKINSON by J.V.CunninghamYEATS by Douglas N.ArchibaldJOYCE by Leon EdelCONRAD by Elizabeth HardwickEMERSON by Alfred KazinSHAKESPEARE by Frank KermodePOE by Dwight MacdonaldCHEKHOV by Howard MossFIELDING by Midge PodhoretzHENRY JAMES by Richard PoirierMELVILLE by Harold RosenbergWHITMAN by Theodore Weiss  \n# MASTERS OF WOR LD LITERATU RE SERIESLOUIS KRONENBERGER,GENERAL EDIT OR\n\nHarold Clurman  \nM  \nACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  \nMy thanks to the John Simon Guggenheim Fund for making thewriting of this book possible  \nand  \nTo Yaddo(Saratoga Springs),where under ideal conditions I wasable to complete the first draft of all but the final chapter  \n⑤Harold Clurman 1977Softcover reprint of the hardcover Ist edition I977  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced ortransmitted,in any form or by any means,without permission  \nFirst published in the USA 1977First published in the United Kingdom 1978  \nPublished by  \nTHE MACMILLAN PRESS LTDLondon and Basingstoke  \nAssociated companies in Delhi Dublin Hong Kong JohanesburgLagos Melbourne New Tork Singapore Tokyo  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nClurman,HaroldIbsen  \n1.Ibsen,Henrik-Criticism and interpretation839.8'2'26 PT8895  \nISBN 978-1-349-01693-8(eBook)  \nISBN 978-1-349-01695-2  \nDOI 10.1007/978-1-349-01693-8  \n# To JOAN UNGARO\n\n“No mind can engender till divided in two.”  \n一W.B.YEATS  \n“Contraries complement one another.”  \n—NIELs BoHR  \n“A man must live in his own times,but he cantry to make the times worth living in.”  \n—IBSEN,Love's Comedy  \nContents  \nA Personal PrologueI The Riddle of Fire and IceI2 Stumbling273 On the Thresbold494 Of Greatness635 Forward and Backward:Backward and Forward906 The New PathI007 In Full Stride1088 Yay and Nay  \nI279 Adrift:The Inner DialogueI42I0 Toward New HeightsI50I Fears and Flights167  \nxii  \nI2 Confessional  \nI3 Conspectus  \nAppendix  \nBibliography  \nIndex  \nContents  \nI84  \nI95  \n205  \n217  \n219  \n# A PERSONAL PROLOGUE\n\nI FIRST HEARD the name “Ibsen”pronounced in I9I2when my parents went to see Brand presented by aRussian company headed by Paul Orlenoff and his lead-ing lady Alla Nazimova.They were appearing in asmall East Side theater in New York.The first fouracts were given on one evening,the fifth and longestact on the following night.I myself did not see theplay till forty-seven years later—its first London pro-duction—in a slightly abridged version.The earnestnesswith which my parents discussed the play has alwayshaunted my memory and endowed Ibsen's name witha special resonance.","cbCaicx7kBKFQUzw","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicx7kBKFQUzw","pdf",23408185,234,"English","# A Personal Prologue\n## First Hearing of “Ibsen”\n## Parents Attend Brand in New York\n## Clurman Sees the Play Decades Later","[{\"question\":\"Who is the narrator and how is Ibsen first introduced?\",\"answer\":\"Harold Clurman narrates, describing how he first heard the name “Ibsen” in 1912 through his parents’ conversation about Brand.\"},{\"question\":\"What do Clurman’s parents discuss about Brand in New York?\",\"answer\":\"They attend a production of Brand by a Russian company led by Paul Orlenoff, with Alla Nazimova as the leading lady, and they discuss the play intensely.\"},{\"question\":\"When does Clurman personally see 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