Book Reviews
Autumn 1957
Grocer’s Lists
Letters of James Joyce edited by Stuart Gilbert. Viking. $7.50. A remembered phrase from the immortal Father Conmee of Clongowes A Wood College crops up in a letter to […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1956
The Truth about Hulme
Further Speculations by T. E. Hulme. Edited by Sam Hynes. University of Minnesota Press. $4.50. The weighty role of T. E. Hulme in the development of modern poetry has […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1954
“What’s Past Is Prologue”
The Desert Music by William Carlos Williams. Random House. $3.00. Like Eliot in The Cocktail Party giving us a re-enactment, in dramatic terms, of all the successive roles of his […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1953
A True Voice
The True Voice Of Feeling by Herbert Read. Pantheon. $4.00. The range of Herbert Read’s voice as a critic of poetry is, surely, a major distinction in an age distinguished […]
William Carlos Williams: Two Appreciations
Summer 1952
The Man and the Poet
“How deep is the water?” asked Paul. “I mean at the deepest place.” Of our contemporaries, to keep the argument pragmatic, I can’t imagine James Joyce, T. S. Eliot or […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1949
The Poetry of Allen Tate¹
I should like to propose two revisions of the customary valuation put upon the poetry of Allen Tate. First, it has become increasingly evident with each new work that Mr. […]