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