“Towards Helhaven: Three Stages of a Vision”

Title“Towards Helhaven: Three Stages of a Vision”
Year for Search1971
AuthorsBurke, Kenneth [Duva](1897-1993)
Secondary TitleThe Sewanee Review
Volume / Edition79.1
Pagination11-25
Date PublishedWinter 1971
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

A satiric essay that begins by reflecting on 1930 Burke and on the waste created by war and pollution, and then suggests the development of Helhaven, a “culture bubble” on the moon. Burke extends the satire in his “Why Satire, With a Plan for Writing One.” Michigan Quarterly Review 13 (Winter 1974): 307-37. Rpt. in his One Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows 1967-1984. Ed. William Rueckert and Angela Bonadonna. Arranged and Annotated by William Rueckert (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 66-95.

Author Note

(1897-1993)

Full Text

1971 Burke, Kenneth [Duva] (1897-1993). “Towards Helhaven: Three Stages of a Vision.” The Sewanee Review 79.1 (Winter 1971): 11-25. Rpt. in his One Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows 1967-1984. Ed. William Rueckert and Angela Bonadonna. Arranged and Annotated by William Rueckert (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 54-65.

A satiric essay that begins by reflecting on 1930 Burke and on the waste created by war and pollution, and then suggests the development of Helhaven, a “culture bubble” on the moon. Burke extends the satire in his “Why Satire, With a Plan for Writing One.” Michigan Quarterly Review 13 (Winter 1974): 307-37. Rpt. in his One Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows 1967-1984. Ed. William Rueckert and Angela Bonadonna. Arranged and Annotated by William Rueckert (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 66-95.