The Henry James Number
Autumn 1943
James and the Plastic Arts
At the outset of recapturing his memories in A Small Boy and Others, James declared that the only terms in which life had treated him to experience were “in the […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1949
Phelps Putnam (1894-1948)
Although Phelps Putnam did not die until near the end of the nineteen-forties, he was essentially a poet of the nineteen-twenties. He belonged to the generation that came of age […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1945
The Problem of the Private Poet
According to the advance agents, a historic event occurred Althis spring in the annals of American literature, and we are the richer by over six hundred more poems by “Emily.” […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1944
American Poetry Now
The Giant Weapon by Yvor Winters. New Directions. $1.00. The Seven Sleepers by Mark Van Doren. Henry Holt. $2.50. An Act of Life by Theodore Spencer. Harvard University Press. $2.00. […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1943
Eliot’s Quartets
“. . . a white light still and moving.” In the course of an artist’s development certain phases may detach themselves and challenge comprehension as completed wholes. Eliot has rounded […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1939
A Good Workman
Collected Poems, 1922-1938. By Mark Van Doren. Henry Holt. $3.50 Mark Van Doren’s Collected Poems let us see now the curve of his work over the two decades since its […]