Poetry
Spring 1953
Autumnal
The earth, laid bare and plain to sight, Divested of its green For sense prepares accessories To feeling’s graveyard scene, Cold architecture of the skies, Reluctance of the sun. No […]
Poetry
Spring 1953
Annihilation of Abstractions
The golliwog transfixes abstract fear. Pure hate is subject to Iago when The actor moves. Caress, embrace, and then A new Symposium need not be near. A candidate may televise. […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1945
Honest Gide
Interviews Imaginaires by André Gide. Editions Jacques Schiffrin. $2.00. Imaginary Interviews by André Gide. Translated by Malcolm Cowley. Knopf. $2.00. Pages De Journal 1939-1942 by André Gide. Pantheon. $2.00. Hamlet […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1944
Roman Criticism and English Translation
Clowns and Angels by Wallace Fowlie. Sheed and Ward. $2.50. Coronal by Paul Claudel. Translated by Sister Mary David. Pantheon Books. $2.75. Professor Fowlie’s book consists mainly of essays on […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1940
The Faith of a Nihilist
Death Is Not Enough: Essays in Active Negation. By Michael Fraenkel. C. W. Daniel Company (London). 7s. 6D. This is an interesting book and probably one of some importance. It […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1955
Ecstasy through Compulsion
The Maids and Deathwatch by Jean Genet. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. Grove Press. $4.75. These two one-act plays are the first complete works by Jean Genet to be published in […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1955
Historical Fiction
Hadrian’s Memoirs by Marguerite Yourcenar. Farrar, Straus and Young. $4.00. Few minds work easily when they take their material from Greece or Rome. We know too much and too little. […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1946
Valéry: La Poésie Engagée
It is difficult now to write of Valéry. It is not because so much of his work cannot be procured and one has to depend for his latest writings on […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1945
A Doctrinal Baudelaire
Baudelaire, A Criticism by Joseph D. Bennett. Princeton. $2.00. This book contans a general theory about Baudelaire’s life and the development of his poetry. The larger part of it, […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1944
Criticism from Oxford
The Heritage Of Symbolism by C. M. Bowra. Macmillan. $3.75. This book consists of essays upon Valéry, Rilke, George, Blok, and Yeats with introductory and concluding chapters considering them as […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1939
Disorder
The terms “classical” and “romantic” belong to the degenerate tribe of literary historians and there is little wish to deprive them of their possessions. Irving Babbitt and T. E. Hulme […]