Nonfiction
Spring 1941
T.S. Eliot: The Illusion of Reaction (II)
6. Determinism We have seen that the entire tendency of Eliot’s thought is toward a deterministic view of literature. Yet Eliot is very severe in his comments upon deterministic views […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1941
T.S. Eliot: The Illusion of Reaction (I)
T. S. Eliot is probably the most widely respected literary figure of our time; he is known primarily as the leader of the intellectual reaction against the romanticism of which […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1941
The Poems of Theodore Roethke
Open House by Theodore Roethke. Knopf. $2.00 There is much in this book for which I care little, but every poet, I suppose, has a right to his own kinds […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1939
Poetry of Feeling
THE COMPLETE COLLECTED POEMS OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, 1906-1938. New Directions. $3.00 W. C. Williams, in his view of life and of poetry, is an uncompromising romantic. He believes in […]