Oct 11, 2015
Yet another aid to beleaguered English students from the ‘60s to the ‘80s was the University of Minnesota’s Pamphlets on American Writers series. Unlike Southern Illinois and their Crosscurrents, UM didn’t make a single design change through the entire series. This batch spans 1960-1969 and nary a font nor a bend of the border ribbon transforms.
While not as austerely forbidding as Crosscurrents, the PAWs also lack the slightly demented look of Stanley Wyatt’s 20th Century Views. All in all, they promise a solid, and mercifully brief, introduction to the author in question.
As a student in the ‘80s and ‘90s, I don’t think I ever used these or Crosscurrents. My go-to was 20CV. Indeed, probably due to Wyatt.
