Book Reviews
Autumn 1947
Bravado with Brilliance
The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry by Cleanth Brooks. Reynal and Hitchcock. $3.50. The greater part of this subtle and admirable book is devoted to the […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1947
What Is Troy?
Folk Tale, Fiction And Saga In The Homeric Epics by Rhys Carpenter. University of California. $2.50 My father was a scholar and knew Greek. When I was five years […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1946
The Hellenism of Robinson Jeffers
Medea: Freely Adapted From the Medea of Euripides by Robinson Jeffers. Random House. $2.50 Pist. Ile see her damn’d first: to Pluto’s damn’d Lake, to the Infernall Deepe, with Erebus […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1945
Brief Comment: Wars I Have Seen
Wars I Have Seen by Gertrude Stein. Random House. $2.50. Like all of those books by Miss Stein which are written in the English language, Wars I Have Seen […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1945
Brief Comment: The War Poets
The War Poets edited by Oscar Williams. John Day. $5.00. The very title is ambiguous. What is a war poet? According to Mr. Williams’ emotional and somewhat murky Introduction, […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1945
“Buddy, Sit Thee in Silence”
The Iliad Of Homer: A line for line translation in Dactylic Hexameter by William Benjamin Smith and Walter Miller. Macmillan. $3.75. This work was begun by Professor Smith many […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1944
Rejecting Swinburne’s Sensibility
The Vigil Of Venus: Pervigilium Veneris: The Latin Text with an Introduction and English Translation by Allen Tate. Cummington Press. Believe that much of Mr. Tate’s trouble with this poem […]