Editor's Notes
Spring 1983
Editorial: A Valediction
Besides commemorating the retirement of the fine scholar and writer Robert W Daniel, who has served as a loyal supporter and assistant editor of the Kenyon Review, this issue also […]
Editorial
Autumn 1982
Editorial: The Uses of Vulgarity
The literary renaissance of northern Europe in the sixteenth century produced, as we know, many of the most sublime and lofty works of human artistic achievement. But our most penetrating […]
Editor's Notes
Spring 1982
Editorial: On Translation
In one sense the question of whether translation can be possible is the central issue of our time. For the matter goes beyond translation from one natural human language to […]
Poetry
Autumn 1981
The Multicolored Man
There is a multicolored man. They come up around him. They seize a ragged corner of his membranes (and who has not a ragged corner in his time?) An iridescent […]
Poetry
Autumn 1981
High May
God and the devil dance amid the flowers. The air has the rank smell of sweet oat stalks. Revel and high riot soil the warm hours. The little capers wield […]
Poetry
Autumn 1981
Heroes
Like a dark sweet pudding rum butter melting in its moist cracks my life is wholesome to me. My hale floor shines. Bach beams from the brown speakers, the fire […]
Poetry
Autumn 1981
A Valediction
When I am gone I fear that you’ll change. With Daniel, a faun if ever I knew one, you’ll fade into the woodlands like the nightingale. And when I return […]
Editor's Notes
Summer 1980
Editorial: On the Fall
The grand old story of the Fall of Man, like any great myth, grows deeper and wiser as it passes through the metamorphoses of its history. One of the oldest […]
Editor's Notes
Autumn 1979
Editorial: A Note on Modernism and Value
Modernism is a term like left and right: its meaning depends on which way one is facing. What constitutes the “modern” changes not only with time but even more importantly […]
Poetry
Summer 1979
The Return
I. By the banks of the Mekong River there still stands a ragged geodesic dome built by the crack shelter group of the Army Corps of Engineers. Some of its […]
Editor's Notes
Winter 1979
Editorial: The Apples of Olympia
Outside Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre there hung an emblem depicting Hercules carrying the starry sphere upon his shoulders. Hercules the human hero has taken on the task from Atlas the god, […]