Austin Warren (1899-1986) was a literary critic and professor of English. He is well known for his collaboration with René Wellek on the Theory of Literature (1949) as well as his collection of essays Rage for Order (1948). He was also an influential literary scholar, writing books on Pope, Hawthorne, the elder Henry James, and Crashaw.
The Henry James Number
Autumn 1943
Myth and Dialectic in Later Novels
The general occasions of the “last period” are tolerably clear, if scarcely of the same order of being. There is, first, the gradual loss of the larger audience reached by […]
Special Anniversary Feature: Excerpts from the War Years
Winter 1989
Instress of Inscape
From the Summer 1944 issue. The early Hopkins follows Keats and the “medieval school” (as he called the Pre-Raphaelites). The latest Hopkins, who wrote the sonnets of desolation, was a […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1955
Religious Meditation and Religious Poetry
The Poetry Of Meditation: A Study in English Religious Literature of the Seventeenth Century by Louis L. Martz. Yale University Press. $5.00. Mr. Martz’s book is everywhere informed and informative, […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1954
The Very Reverend Dr. Donne
It is by now clear that the poet-preacher’s own dichotomy between Jack Donne and Dr. Donne is an exaggeration, even though that kind of natural, of “sincere,” exaggeration which such […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1951
The Style of Sir Thomas Browne
We should distinguish between Style and a style, rival concepts deriving from those universal ancestors, Plato and Aristotle. Speaking Platonically and normatively, we attribute style to an author or charge […]
My Credo: A Symposium of Critics (Continued)
Spring 1951
X. The Teacher as a Critic
Like Newman, who so deeply influenced my youth and who continues to be one of my points de repère, I can most naturally exposit my present convictions by sketching the […]
The Hopkins Centennial (Concluded)
Autumn 1944
Monument Not Quite Needed
It is difficult to be fair to Miss Ruggles’ centennial life of Hopkins.1 By conventional literary and commercial standards, it is not only “needed” but adequate and creditable. It supplies […]
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Summer 1944
Instress of Inscape
The early Hopkins follows Keats and the “medieval school” (as he called the Pre-Raphaelites). The latest Hopkins, who wrote the sonnets of desolation, was a poet of tense, economic austerity. […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1941
Edward Taylor’s Poetry: Colonial Baroque
To students of poetry, “metaphysical” has become a term almost as troublesome as “romantic.” Once pejorative, it has turned into an adjective of eulogy; but, as before, its scope remains […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1940
A Latter-Day Saint
The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson edited by Ralph L. Rusk. Columbia University Press. Six volumes. $30.00 One who remembers the exact apologia which “Uriel” sent the Rev. Henry Ware […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1939
Humanism Ten Years After
Humanism and Imagination. By G. R. Elliott. University of North Carolina Press. $2.50 The chronicle of the movement known as the New Humanism remains to be written; and when that […]
The Kenyon Review Credos
The Teacher as a Critic
From The Kenyon Review, Spring 1951, Vol. XIII, No. 2 Like Newman, who so deeply influenced my youth and who continues to be one of my points de repère, I […]