Nonfiction
Winter 1942
Cooperative Criticism: A Letter from the Critical Front
Literary criticism is not the contemplation of general principles. It is a practice: the responsible application of principles to specific art. And if we are to have a healthy aesthetic […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1949
The Reading of a Lyric Poem
What I tell you three times is true. —Old Song. He who finds out a new pleasure is one of the most useful members of society. —Goldsmith. This essay does […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1949
Artist Shining through His Vehicles
Yeats: The Man And The Masks by Richard Ellmann. Macmillan. $5.00 Yeats may help to give a new direction to literary criticism. Whether “Yeats” in the preceding sentence should refer […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1942
The “Mesures” Lectures
The Language Of Poetry by Philip Wheelwright, Cleanth Brooks, I. A. Richards, and Wallace Stevens. Edited with a Preface by Allen Tate. Princeton University Press. $2.00 This small volume, […]