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Book · 1954

God's Country and Mine: A Declaration of Love, Spiced with a Few Harsh Words

Publication

Title
God's Country and Mine: A Declaration of Love, Spiced with a Few Harsh Words
Author
Jacques Barzun (Columbia College, Class of 1927)
Form
Book
First published
1954
Publisher
Cultural essay

Complete works of Jacques Barzun (43)

  1. 1927 Samplings and Chronicles: A Continuation of the Philolexian Society History, with Literary Selections from 1912 to 1927 (editor) · Society history
  2. 1932 The French Race: Theories of Its Origins and Their Social and Political Implications · Doctoral thesis
  3. 1937 Race: A Study in Modern Superstition · Methuen
  4. 1939 Of Human Freedom · Non-fiction
  5. 1941 Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage · Intellectual history
  6. 1943 Romanticism and the Modern Ego · Little, Brown
  7. 1945 Teacher in America · Essays / pedagogy
  8. 1950 Berlioz and the Romantic Century · Biography
  9. 1951 Pleasures of Music: A Reader's Choice of Great Writing About Music and Musicians · Editor
  10. 1951 The Later Ego: Ego 8 and Ego 9 (editor, of James Agate diaries) · Introductory essay “Agate and His Nine Egos”
  11. 1954 God's Country and Mine: A Declaration of Love, Spiced with a Few Harsh Words · Cultural essay this record
  12. 1956 Music in American Life · Indiana University Press
  13. 1956 The Energies of Art: Studies of Authors, Classic and Modern · Essays
  14. 1957 The Modern Researcher (with Henry Graff) · Methods text
  15. 1959 The House of Intellect · Cultural criticism
  16. 1959 “Lincoln: The Literary Genius” · The Saturday Evening Post, Feb. 14
  17. 1961 Classic, Romantic, and Modern · Cultural criticism
  18. 1961 The Delights of Detection · Editor
  19. 1964 Science: The Glorious Entertainment · History of science
  20. 1966 Follett's Modern American Usage (completing editor) · Completed the late Wilson Follett's manuscript with six collaborators
  21. 1967 What Man Has Built (introduction to the Great Ages of Man series) · Foreword
  22. 1968 The American University: How It Runs, Where It Is Going · Higher education
  23. 1971 A Catalogue of Crime: A Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, and Related Genres (with Wendell Hertig Taylor) · Special Edgar Award, 1972
  24. 1971 On Writing, Editing, and Publishing · University of Chicago Press
  25. 1974 Clio and the Doctors · Philosophy of history
  26. 1974 The Use and Abuse of Art · A. W. Mellon Lectures
  27. 1975 Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers · Style guide
  28. 1976 The Bibliophile of the Future: His Complaints about the Twentieth Century · Maury A. Bromsen lecture
  29. 1982 Berlioz and His Century: An Introduction to the Age of Romanticism · Abridgment of Berlioz and the Romantic Century
  30. 1982 Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940–1980 (Bea Friedland, ed.) · Selected essays
  31. 1983 A Stroll with William James · Biography
  32. 1986 A Word or Two Before You Go: Brief Essays on Language · Wesleyan University Press
  33. 1986 Introduction to The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural · Foreword
  34. 1989 The Culture We Deserve: A Critique of Disenlightenment · Cultural criticism
  35. 1991 An Essay on French Verse: For Readers of English Poetry · Melville Cane Poetry Award, 1993
  36. 1991 Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning · Education
  37. 1999 Hector Berlioz: Evenings with the Orchestra · Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999
  38. 2000 From Dawn to Decadence · Cultural history
  39. 2001 Sidelights on Opera at Glimmerglass · Program notes
  40. 2002 A Jacques Barzun Reader · Selected writings
  41. 2002 What Is a School? and Trim the College! · Hudson Institute
  42. 2004 Four More Sidelights on Opera at Glimmerglass: 2001–2004 · Program notes
  43. 2011 Review of Adam Kirsch, Why Trilling Matters · The Wall Street Journal

Cite this record

Barzun, Jacques. God's Country and Mine: A Declaration of Love, Spiced with a Few Harsh Words. Cultural essay, 1954.

Foundation record: https://philolexianfoundation.org/members/barzun-jacques-cc-1927/god-s-country-and-mine-a-declaration-of-love-spiced-with-a-few-harsh-words-1954.html