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Robert C. Stephenson

Book Reviews

Winter 1957

Racine and the English Ear

By Robert C. Stephenson

Racine And English Classicism by Katherine E. Wheatley. University of Texas Press. $6. In Racine and English Classicism Miss Wheatley examines English translations and adaptations of Racine from the first […]

Book Reviews

Autumn 1945

Poetry from Spain

By Robert C. Stephenson

Contemporary Spanish Poetry: Selections from Ten Poets translated by Eleanor L. Turnbull with Spanish Originals and Personal Reminiscences of the Poets by Pedro Salinas. Johns Hopkins Press. $3.50.   Through […]

Book Reviews

Summer 1943

Caribbean Horrors

By Robert C. Stephenson

Dark Wedding by Ramon J. Sender. Translated from Spanish by Eleanor Clark. Doubleday, Doran. $2.50. The materials of Dark Wedding might seem undeserving of serious treatment. While we approve when […]

Book Reviews

Spring 1943

Péguy Pared Down

By Robert C. Stephenson

Charles Péguy: Basic Verities. Rendered into English by Ann and Julian Green. Pantheon Books. $2.75. The current fashion of printing translations page by page with the sources is more than […]