Nonfiction
Spring 1965
The Sense of Guilt
I find a curious mood in myself when thinking about the second half of the 1930s. It is different from my feelings about the earlier days when writers went on […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1947
“Not Men”: A Natural History of American Naturalism
There have been too many unfruitful arguments over Naturalism in American fiction. Now that the movement has flourished for half a century, we can forget to attack or defend it, […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1957
The Existence of Symbolism
From the French. The mere name of Symbolism is already an enigma for many, as if it had been chosen expressly to make them torment their minds. I have known […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1965
I Sometimes Said to Stéphane Mallarmé…
From the French. I sometimes said to Stéphane Mallarmé: “Some find fault with you and others laugh you to scorn. You arouse rage and pity. It is a simple […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1944
An Introduction to Goethe’s Theatre
From the French. Criticism has soon finished its task with certain authors, however great they may be. When a Mistral, for example, has received the tribute of a Maurras, the […]