Book Reviews
Autumn 1957
The Elusive Word
A Dictionary of American-English Usage by Margaret Nicholson. Oxford. $5.00. It is strange that the two most important reference books for English Tshould have been produced in England—that linguistically […]
English Verse and What It Sounds Like
Summer 1956
From Linguistics to Criticism
I. (As in the Kenyon Review of Autumn, 1951.) An Outline of English Structure by George L. Trager and Henry Lee Smith, Jr. Studies in Linguistics: Occasional Papers 3. Battenburg Press. […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1954
The Sounds in Their Courses
Shakespeare’s Pronunciation by Helge Kökeritz. Yale University Press. $7.50. We used to say that the next pressing task of modern criticism was to push back its range of inquiry […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1951
From Linguistics to Criticism
An Outline of English Structure by George L. Trager and Henry Lee Smith, Jr. Studies in Linguistics: Occasional Papers 3. Battenburg Press. $1.50 Fending off political attack on one flank, […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1951
Daring Amateur
The Rise of Words and Their Meanings by Samuel Reiss. Philosophical Library. $3.75. European languages are written from left to right; Hebrew, from right to left. This fact led E. […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1946
Linguistic Patriot
The American Language: Supplement One by H. L. Mencken. Knopf. $5.00 The last few months have given us several works of popular linguistic importance. First came the Hogben-Bodmer Loom of […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1944
Some Languages Are Better than Others
The Loom of Language by Frederick Bodmer. Edited by Lancelot Hogben. W. W. Norton. $3.75. Whatever else may be said of him, Lancelot Hogben is undoubtedly one of our more […]
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Summer 1944
Sprung Rhythm
A poet’s theories are not always the best guide to his poetry. Wordsworth should not be judged solely from the “Preface” to the Lyrical Ballads, nor Sidney Lanier from his […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1940
America’s Language: A to DEW
As a national language, American English is a distinctive variety of English without distinctive regional origins. Its distinctiveness encompasses speech-areas as diverse as Eastern New England and Tidewater Virginia, which, […]