The Henry James Number
Autumn 1943
James the Melodramatist
In a foolish essay entitled “Books and You,” Mr. Somerset Maugham, while scorning James’s work as trivial and superficial, is nevertheless forced to admit that it somehow “keeps the reader […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1990
Onoma-Onomato-Onomatwaddle
To readers who like poetry so much that they also read essays about poets, nothing is so familiar as a passage in which the writer, having quoted a few lines […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1950
Communication
SIRS: May I trespass on your space to correct two errors in my article “The Fetish of Form,” which appeared in your Winter issue? The first concerns the authorship of […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1950
The Fetish of Form: An Example from Music
More real harm has been done to art in recent years by indiscriminate talk about Form than has been due to any other type of philistinism. The habit belongs, to […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1943
Bernard Shaw in Twilight
Not long ago, I was part of a gathering at which someone, seeing Hesketh Pearson’s recent biography on a table, turned the general conversation to the subject of Shaw.1 “Does […]