Book Reviews
Autumn 1965
No Machine to Measure the Poem With
Sound and Form in Modern Poetry: A Study of Prosody from Thomas Hardy to Robert Lowell by Harvey Gross. University of Michigan Press, $8.50. The subtitle closes in on Gross’s […]
Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment
Spring 1964
A Taste of Ashes
Five hours in the life of Augustus Philipps, Esq., b. 1897, A.B. Dartmouth 1919, m. 1927 Laura Fenchurch (d. 1959), m. 1961 Margaret Redruth. Children John F., b. 1929, Charles […]
Poetry
Summer 1961
A Mirror for Moderns
Rich girl, poor boy, learn from one Oldest Master. Steel, Corning Glass, or Pittsburgh Plate It doesn’t matter, he’s always right. He’ll do his best if you tell him he […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1957
The Meters of the Intermediate Poets
The Liveliness of a group of papers recently brought together in this Review (“English Verse and What it Sounds Like,” Summer I956) seems to me a good omen for poetry. […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1949
Hemingway and James
By way of introducing these remarks on the value of In Our Time I want to make a broad and somewhat crude observation which I hope will fix the reader’s […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1947
Negro Music
Jazz: Hot And Hybrid by Winthrop Sargeant. Dutton. $5.00 Were the musicological and aesthetic interests more nearly equal in Mr. Sargeant, this book might well be the last word on […]
Fiction
Summer 1946
The Dirge
My family were good people, and in ordinary times not much ever happened to them. But I remember even before I was drafted, walking home from school in the warm […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1943
The Discourse of Music
It is at a late, almost fatal, stage of sophistication that men begin writing critically of their arts. Primitive man may be hardly less “creative” than he is practical, but […]