Nonfiction
Spring 1952
The Symbolic Imagination:¹ A Meditation on Dante’s Three Mirrors
It is right even if it is not quite proper to observe at the beginning of a discourse on Dante, that no writer has held in mind at one time […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1952
The Angelic Imagination: Poe and the Power of Words¹
With some embarrassment I assume the part of amateur theologian and turn to a little-known figure, Edgar Allan Poe, another theologian only less ignorant than myself. How seriously one must […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1949
Johnson on the Metaphysicals
When we feel disposed to dismiss Johnson’s views on the views Metaphysical poets as prejudice, we ought to consider whether we are not opposing one prejudice with another, of another […]
The Critic's Business: By Four of the Critics
Winter 1949
A Note on Autotelism
Without The Kenyon Review in the past ten years I doubt that we should have the New Criticism; for it was Mr. Ransom who created its myth by giving it […]
Poetry
Winter 1944
Seasons of the Soul (To J. P. B.)
Allor porsi la mano un poco avante, e colsi un ramicel da un gran pruno; e il tronco suo gridò: Perchè mi schiante? I. Air Summer, this is our flesh, […]
Poetry
Spring 1943
Jubilo
Hit mus’ be now de Kingdom comin’ And de year of Jubilo! Tailspinning from the shelves of sky See how it dips and tacks and tosses To cast a beam […]
Poetry
Spring 1943
More Sonnets at Christmas
I Again the native hour lets down the locks Uncombed and black, but gray the bobbing beard; Ten years ago His eyes, fierve shuttlecocks, Pierced the close net of what […]
Poetry
Autumn 1939
The Trout Map
The Management Area of Cherokee National Forest, interested in fish, Has mapped Tellico and Bald Rivers And North River, with the tributaries Brookshire Branch and Sugar Cove Creek: A fishy […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1939
The Poet and Her Biographer
This Was a Poet: A Critical Biography of Emily Dickinson by George Frisbee Whicher. Charles Scribner’s Sons. $3.00 It had better be said at once that Mr. Whicher is not […]