Book Reviews
Autumn/ November 1969
The Americanization of John Lehmann
In My Own Time: Memoirs of a Literary Life by John Lehmann. Little, Brown and Company, $15.00. In My Own Time is a stout and expensive condensation of the three […]
Book Reviews
Autumn/ September 1968
The Changing World of Anthony Trollope
The Changing World of Anthony Trollope by Robert M. Polhemus. University of California Press, $6.00. The critic who embarks on a study of Trollope faces two signal dangers: Trollope’s valuation […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1968
Shorter Reviews: The Truthtellers: Jane Austen, George Eliot, D. H. Lawrence
The Truthtellers: Jane Austen, George Eliot, D. H. Lawrence by Laurence Lerner. Schocken Books, $7.50. Professor Lerner is a poet and a novelist as well as a scholar, and his […]
Book Reviews
Autumn/ September 1967
Shorter Reviews: A London Childhood
A London Childhood by John Holloway. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 21s. John Holloway’s mother worked as a daily woman; his father was a stoker at Queen’s Hospital in Hackney. Their […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1966
Where Critics Adore to Dabble
THE CAVE AND THE MOUNTAIN: A Study of E. M. Forster by Wilfred Stone. Stanford University Press, $8.95. THE QUEST FOR CERTITUDE IN E. M. FORSTER’S FICTION by David Shusterman. […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1966
Home to Roost
Further Explorations by L. C. Knights. Stanford University Press, $5.00. More than a generation ago, in what has proved to be his most widely known critical utterance, L. C. Knights […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1963
One Dawn to Another
The Gate And Other Poems by C. Day Lewis. Jonathan Cape, 12s.6d. It is typical of the treatment, or rather the non-treatment, now accorded Day Lewis’ poetry—in this country, at […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1962
Man in Charge
The Rhetoric Of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth. The University of Chicago Press. $6.95. “Rhetoric of Fiction” means—in the Chicago dialect—point of view in fiction, and I feared, before reading […]