As if passing judgment on other people isn't being "full of yourself". LOL.
Yes, it seems he had poor opinions of authors like Melville, Walt Whitman, and F. Scott Fitzgerald as well.
Check Wikipedia on this genius. Here's an excerpt:
Dahlberg was born in
Boston to Lizzie Dalberg. Mother and son wandered the southern and western United States until 1905, when she opened a barber shop in Kansas City. In April 1912 Dahlberg was sent to the Jewish Orphan Asylum,
Cleveland, where he lived until 1917.
Small wonder quotes like this are attributed to this scribe. Considered highly in literary circles, it appears much of what he stood for would find its opposite in this board. Among other things, he felt that much of American literature was glorified trash, and spent a good deal of his time in Europe.
For example, here's two quotes about America:
"The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists."
- "Our Vanishing Cooperative Colonies," Alms for Oblivion (1964).)
"It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination."
- "No Love and No Thanks," Alms for Oblivion (1964).
Probably one of the most contradictory ones I found:
"To write is a humiliation."
- The Carnal Myth, introduction (1968).
These sound like the dregs of a bitter, disillusioned intellectual.
