Nonfiction
Autumn/ November 1968
James Agee: A Memoir
The office building where we worked presented on the ground floor one of the first of those showrooms, enclosed in convex, non-reflecting plate glass, in which a new automobile revolved […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1956
A Note on Ezra Pound, 1928-56¹
The first of Ezra Pound’s verses that I remember seeing were in the volume Personae, borrowed when I was in school. In appearance this book had a style very distinct […]
Poetry
Spring 1956
Spring Shade
The April winds rise, and the willow whips Lash one another’s green in rinsing light. The dream eludes the waking finger tips. Buffets the breakfast pane and flashes white As […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1952
Heroic Poems in English
The Iliad Of Homer translated with an Introduction by Richmond Lattimore. University of Chicago Press. $4.50 In our day and age few people have learned, or kept, enough Greek to […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1952
The Style That Does Honor
Sapientis est ordinare: the wise man’s gift is for putting things in order. It would be a relief if this were commonly and firmly established as a criterion of art, […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1951
Critics on Criticism
Critics On Criticism Lectures In Criticism. Bollingen Series XVI. Pantheon Books. $3.50 This book was published last year and the lectures it contains were delivered two years ago, but the […]
Poetry
Spring 1942
Colorado
Now the plains come to adore the mountain wall, Their yellow fields running and bowing like waves To celebrate in such serene order the fury and Love that bore these […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1939
Laura Riding
The Collected Poems of Laura Riding. Random House. $4.00 Of all the contemporary poems I know, these seem to me the furthest advanced, the most personal and the purest. I […]
Poetry
Summer 1983
Aeneas at Carthage from “The Aeneid”
The two men pressed on where the pathway led, Soon climbing a long ridge that gave a view Down over the city and facing towers. Aeneas found, where lately huts […]
Poetry
Autumn 1959
Priam and Akhilles (“Iliad” XXIV, 159-237)
Then Iris at his bidding ran On the rainy winds to bear the word of Zeus, Until she came near Priam’s house and heard Voices in lamentation. In […]