Nonfiction
Summer 1961
The Seizures of Honor in Calderón
In the crude engraving prefacing Calderón’s collected works, the distracted look of an elderly melancholiac stares out at the reader. The portrait seems an unintentional caricature of an earlier one […]
Poetry
Autumn 1958
Corrales 1948
In the ear of night an upheaval of frogs—Then, immense, a patched sky face Drowsing by. Waxy hedges Click like hooves to a shower’s ricochet Till wetness drinks itself in […]
Poetry
Autumn 1958
Near Hope in Providence
Here in the warm rooms above the snow locked streets the spirit drinks light through slanted blinds. Traction-whining tires ascend the brilliant afternoon to the sky’s blue bound synagogue. Staging […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1958
In Defense of Allegory
As a principal source of the opposition to the concept of allegory, Coleridge is probably also the one—because his strictures on the subject have been taken too literally or misapplied—from […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1955
That Mutation of Pound’s¹
I would like to modify the absolutism of T. S. Eliot’s statement that Ezra Pound has caused an “abrupt mutation of poetic form and idiom in the period” between 1910 […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1955
Proud of His Scientific Attitude
Poems 1923-1954 by E. E. Cummings. Harcourt. $6.75. The publication of Four Quartets and the death of Yeats and Joyce around the start of the second World War now seem […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1948
Hobgoblin or Apollo
“Five lines of text and ten pages of notes about the folk and the fishgods of Dundrum. Printed by the weird sisters in the year of the big wind.” —Joyce, Ulysses […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1945
Communications
SIR: As one professing a specialty in things Spanish, Mr. Mallan has made such a muddled display of his knowledge that I feel the animus behind his review of García […]