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Lloyd Mallan

Nonfiction

Spring 1945

Communications

By Edwin Honig and Lloyd Mallan

SIR: As one professing a specialty in things Spanish, Mr. Mallan has made such a muddled display of his knowledge that I feel the animus behind his review of García […]

Book Reviews

Autumn 1944

How to Understand a Spaniard

By Lloyd Mallan

Garcia Lorca by Edwin Honig. Makers of Modern Literature Series, New Directions. $1.50. Garcia Lorca is a great poet in his own language, and this is the first booklength critical […]

Book Reviews

Summer 1944

Tom Wolfe of Argentina

By Lloyd Mallan

The Bay of Silence by Eduardo Mallea. Translated from the Spanish by Stuart Edgar Grummon. Knopf. $2.50. Eduardo Mallea has been hailed both here and in South America as one […]

Book Reviews

Winter 1944

Bird’s Eye View

By Lloyd Mallan

12 Spanish American Poets: An Anthology edited, with translations, by H. R. Hays. Yale University Press. $3.50. Here are a dozen poets; “selected to give the reader a bird’s eye […]

Book Reviews

Spring 1943

Good Neighbor Poets

By Lloyd Mallan

An Anthology of Contemporary Latin American Poetry. Edited by Dudley Fitts. New Directions. $3.50 “This anthology,” writes Dudley Fitts in the opening sentence of his preface, “is intended as an […]