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Morgan Blum

Book Reviews

Summer 1940

A Marxist Critic

By Morgan Blum

Forces in American Criticism by Bernard Smith. Harcourt, Brace. $3.00 Mr. Smith has undertaken his re-examination of American criticism not as an humble seeker after truth, but a metaphysician who […]

Nonfiction

Winter 1959

Promises as Fulfillment

By Morgan Blum

In the autumn issue of The Kenyon Review, Mr. James Wright has discussed fruitfully and in terms with which I find it difficult to disagree Robert Penn Warren’s Promises. But […]