Book Reviews
Autumn/ September 1968
Myths and Mothers
from the German. Myth, Religion and Mother Right by Johann Jakob Bachofen. Edited by Rudolph Marx and translated by Ralph Manheim. Bollingen Series (Princeton University Press), $5.00. Mother Right (Das […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1966
William Troy’s Work
In 1948, in a book called The Armed Vision: A Study in the Methods of Modern Literary Criticism, I announced the birth of a great age of literary criticism, for […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1961
Capital as Literature
All of Karl Marx’s writings from 1848 on show the quest for tragic drama, the great tragedy on the stage of history that was his vision of Proletarian revolution. Only […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1957
Palpable Designs
Literary Criticism: A Short History by William K. Wimsatt, Jr., and Cleanth Brooks. Knopf. $8.95. Literary Criticism: A Short History is the first attempt since 1900, since Saintsbury’s A […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1954
The Language of Scottish Poetry
For a generation self-consciously concerned with the relationship between modern poetry and a tradition, one of the most significant experiments going on is the little group of poets who have, […]
Communications
Spring 1951
Mr. Hyman and the Dictionary
SIRS: In a review of Volume I of The Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend (1949, Maria Leach, Ed.) which was published in your Autumn 1950 […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1950
Dissent on a Dictionary
Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend. Vol. I: A-I edited by Maria Leach. Funk and Wagnalls. $7.50 I say “dissent”―not yet, three months after publication, having […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1949
Myth, Ritual, and Nonsense
“Myth” is the new intellectual fashion, apparently, and judging by the recent books on the subject, there is more than one way to skin a myth. Joseph Campbell’s The Hero […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1948
Some Bankrupt Treasuries
Adventures of a Ballad Hunter by John Lomax. Macmillan. $3.75. The Folktale by Stith Thompson. Dryden. $6. Legends of Paul Bunyan. Compiled by Harold W. Felton. Knopf. $5. Febold Feboldson. […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1948
The Critical Achievement of Caroline Spurgeon
Relations between scholarship and criticism in literature have not been very good in our time. To the critic, the scholar is an academic fuddy-duddy whose only interest in great poetry […]