Book Reviews
Autumn/ September 1969
The Musical Predicament
The Continuity of Music: A History of Influence by Irving Kolodin. Alfred A. Knopf, $10.00. Serious Music—And All That Jazz!: An Adventure in Music Criticism by Henry Pleasants. Simon and […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1969
Little Pomp; Much Circumstance
Portrait of Elgar by Michael Kennedy. Oxford University Press, $10.00. The Essence of Bruckner by Robert Simpson. Chilton Book Company, $5.50. No one who has glumly marched down the […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1968
Too Much Spinach
Byron and the Ruins of Paradise by Robert F. Gleckner. The Johns Hopkins Press, $8.95. In the slovenly old days before the New Criticism, it was possible for a critic […]
Book Reviews
Autumn/ September 1967
Of Eros, Heroes, and Neros
Richard Strauss: The Life of a Non-Hero by George R. Marek. Simon and Schuster, $7.95. In February 1902, Gustav Mahler wrote prophetically to his wife about Strauss that “my day […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1967
Giants and Metronomes
George Frideric Handel by Paul Henry Lang. W. W. Norton and Company, $12.00. Beethoven As I Knew Him by Anton Felix Schindler. Edited by Donald W. MacArdle. University of North […]
Book Reviews
Autumn/ November 1966
Against Interpretation
AGAINST INTERPRETATION by Susan Sontag. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $4.95. The recent appearance of a full-page photograph of Miss Sontag in Vogue symbolizes one of the qualities which make […]
Reviews: Dickens and Some Others: Special Review Section
Summer 1965
On the Spoor of the Beatnik
Dark Passages by Barbara Charlesworth. The University of Wisconsin Press, $5.00. There is something both ludicrous and faintly dispiriting in the prospect of the doomed writers of the 1890s—Yeats’s “tragic […]