Book Reviews
Spring 1957
Professional Aesthetics
The Artist As Creator: An Essay Of Human Freedom by Milton C. Nahm. Johns Hopkins Press. $5.50. Critics have their metaphors, no less than the poets they criticize. Professor Nahm […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1957
The Correspondent Breeze: A Romantic Metaphor
Writing in 1834, Henry Taylor noted that Wordsworth’s attacks on 18th Century diction had succeeded in making poetry, in some particulars, more plain spoken. But Taylor also remarked that in […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1955
The Newer Criticism: Prisoner of Logical Positivism?
The Burning Fountain: A Study In The Language Of Symbolism by Philip Wheelwright. Indiana University Press. $6.00. Despite the modest claim of its subtitle, the book pretty well epitomizes the […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1954
The Truth about Dr. Johnson
Samuel Johnson’s Literary Criticism by Jean H. Hagstrum. University of Minnesota Press. $3.50. “Most of the nineteenth-century ghosts about Johnson the critic have fortunately been laid,” Professor Hagstrum remarks, “and […]