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Winter 1951
Vol. XIII No. 1
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My Credo: A Symposium of Critics (Continued)
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Cleanth Brooks
V. The Formalist Critics -
Douglas Bush
VI. The Humanist Critic¹ -
Northrop Frye
VII. The Archetypes of Literature
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Cleanth Brooks
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Fiction
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Robie Macauley
The Thin Voice -
Robert Creeley
The Unsuccessful Husband
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Robie Macauley
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Nonfiction
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Beatrice Gottlieb
A Year of Dance: Inventory vs. Invention -
Eric Bentley
Eduardo de Filippo and the Neapolitan Theatre -
Josephine Miles
The Language of the Donne Tradition -
Arnold Stein
Structures of Sound in Donne’s Verse
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Beatrice Gottlieb
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Poetry
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Robert Lowell
The Mills of the Kavanaughs
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Robert Lowell
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Book Reviews
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Leslie A. Fiedler
Style and Anti-Style in the Short Story -
Robert Fitzgerald
Critics on Criticism -
Arthur Mizener
A Large Fiction -
Isaac Rosenfeld
A Farewell to Hemingway
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Leslie A. Fiedler
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Autumn 1950
Vol. XII No. 4
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My Credo: A Symposium of Critics
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Richard Chase
III. Art, Nature, Politics -
William Empson
IV. The Verbal Analysis -
Herbert Read
II. The Critic as Man of Feeling -
Leslie A. Fiedler
I. Toward An Amateur Criticism
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Richard Chase
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Fiction
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Ann Patterson Mitchner
Invitation to Lunch
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Ann Patterson Mitchner
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Nonfiction
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Arthur E. Murphy
American Philosophy at Mid-Century -
Parker Tyler
Movie Letter: Lament for the Audience—and a Mild Bravo -
Charles M. Coffin
A Tribute: [F. O. Matthiessen] -
William Empson
Communication -
R. P. Blackmur
The Politics of Human Power -
P. M. Pasinetti
The Italian Vogue -
Richard Ellmann
Joyce and Yeats
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Arthur E. Murphy
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Poetry
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Richard Lyons
Stackers of Wheat -
Hayden Carruth
Littoral -
Anthony Hecht
Springtime -
Richard Lyons
Sunday -
Hayden Carruth
The Snow -
Anthony Hecht
Halloween
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Richard Lyons
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Book Reviews
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Walter Elder
Venus Attended by Muses -
Stanley Edgar Hyman
Dissent on a Dictionary -
Denham Sutcliffe
Novels of the Nebulous Self -
Arthur Mizener
Amphibium in Old Kentucky -
Richard Chase
Another Harpoon -
R. W. Flint
Ten Poets -
Francis Fergusson
When We Were Very Young
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Walter Elder
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Summer 1950
Vol. XII No. 3
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Nonfiction
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Lionel Trilling
Wordsworth and the Iron Time -
Eleanor Clark
Hadrian’s Villa -
Ernest Nagel
Einstein’s Philosophy of Science -
Frederick S. Wight
Introduction to Edvard Munch -
John Crowe Ransom
William Wordsworth: Notes toward an Understanding of Poetry -
R. P. Blackmur
Anna Karenina: The Dialectic of Incarnation
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Lionel Trilling
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Poetry
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Theodore Roethke
A Light Breather -
John Thompson Jr.
Homecoming -
Roy Marz
The Amateurs -
John Thompson Jr.
The Deluge -
Theodore Roethke
Elegy for Jane -
Roy Marz
Ice Carnival -
Roy Marz
Head of a Smiling Priest: Limestone, Egypt
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Theodore Roethke
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Book Reviews
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Kermit Lansner
The Frankfurter and the Hotel -
Herbert A. Deane
Wisdom of the Deconverted -
R. W. Flint
I Will Teach You My Townspeople -
Moses Hadas
New Masks for Old -
Isaac Rosenfeld
The Case against Pure Sensibility -
Kenneth Burke
Action, Passion, and Analogy
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Kermit Lansner
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Spring 1950
Vol. XII No. 2
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Fiction
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Bryan MacMahon
Wedding Eve
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Bryan MacMahon
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Nonfiction
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Harry Levin
An Explication of the Player’s Speech¹ -
Eric Bentley
Jean-Louis Barrault -
Philip Blair Rice
Existentialism and the Self -
Jacques Barzun
Communication -
Parker Tyler
Movie Letter: Novel Into Film: All the King’s Men -
John Crowe Ransom
The Understanding of Fiction -
Northrop Frye
Levels of Meaning in Literature -
Henry Popkin
Theatre Letter -
Kermit Lansner
Malraux’s Aesthetic -
Jean-Louis Barrault
The Theatre and Its Instrument
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Harry Levin
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Poetry
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Howard Moss
Around the Fish 2: After Paul Klee -
Delmore Schwartz
The Early Morning Light -
Edwin Watkins
The Flower¹ -
Byron Vazakas
Midsummer Night’s Dream -
Howard Moss
A Street with Children -
Edwin Watkins
The Poet at Nightfall Surveys His Dominion
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Howard Moss
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Book Reviews
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Edna Kenton
The Stage as Ordeal -
Niel Glixon
Figure, Carpet, and Whole Cloth -
Mark Schorer
The Novel and the Individual -
Joseph Sagmaster
Fist across the Sea -
Denham Sutcliffe
Lives Relevant and Irrelevant
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Edna Kenton
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Winter 1950
Vol. XII No. 1
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Fiction
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Hisaye Yamamoto
The Legend of Miss Sasagawara -
Robert Penn Warren
Portrait of La Grand’ Bosse
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Hisaye Yamamoto
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Nonfiction
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Rosemond Tuve
On Herbert’s ‘Sacrifice’ -
Parker Tyler
Movie Letter: Foreign Films and the Main Problem -
Eric Bentley
An American Theatre Critic! (Or the China in the Bull Shop) -
R. P. Blackmur
Parody and Critique: Notes on Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus -
Philip Blair Rice
Children of Narcissus: Some Themes of French Speculation -
Beatrice Gottlieb
Dance Chronicle: New Trends in Modern Dance -
Jacques Barzun
The Fetish of Form: An Example from Music -
Arthur Mizener
The Novel of Manners in America
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Rosemond Tuve
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Poetry
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John Woods
Birth Day -
Mark Van Doren
What Beast Is This -
John Frederick Nims
Saeclum in Favilla -
John Woods
The Old Man Is Dying -
Mark Van Doren
The Mirror -
Robert Richman
Another House of God -
John Frederick Nims
Watcher Go Deftly -
John Woods
Melville Has Green Eyes -
John Frederick Nims
Winter in the Park
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John Woods
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Book Reviews
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John Herman Randall, Jr.
Lovejoy and the History of Ideas -
Donat O’Donnell
The Unfallen -
Eliseo Vivas
Theorists without Theory -
Creighton Gilbert
The Tiny, Solemn Truth -
Howard Nemerov
Poets in the Dark
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John Herman Randall, Jr.
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Autumn 1949
Vol. XI No. 4
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Fiction
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E. F. McGuire
The Tenant of the Room -
Sean O’Faolain
Persecution Mania
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E. F. McGuire
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Nonfiction
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René Leibowitz
The Musician’s Commitment -
William Empson
Donne and the Rhetorical Tradition -
Harold Rosenberg
The Pathos of the Proletariat -
Duncan Phillips
Pierre Bonnard -
Mark Schorer
Fiction and the “Matrix of Analogy” ¹ -
Eric Bentley
German Stagecraft Today
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René Leibowitz
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Poetry
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Josephine Miles
Idea of Joy -
Lloyd Parks
Ophelia -
Rolfe Humphries
The King of the Grove -
Josephine Miles
Siege -
Josephine Miles
Bombay -
Josephine Miles
Son
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Josephine Miles
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Communications
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William Empson
Communications
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William Empson
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Book Reviews
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Arthur Mizener
Truth Maybe, Not Fiction -
Richard Chase
The Fictions of Aborigines -
R. C. Stephenson
Ganglionic Man -
Hugh Kenner
He Wrote of Giants -
Susanne K. Langer
Simple like Genesis -
Paul Goodman
Jurisprudence vs. Psychiatry
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Arthur Mizener
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Art
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Summer 1949
Vol. XI No. 3
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Fiction
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David Wagoner
Holiday -
Ruth Domino
It Almost Happened
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David Wagoner
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Nonfiction
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Allan Gilbert
Shakespeare’s Amazing Words -
Donald A. Stauffer
The Reading of a Lyric Poem -
Hannah Arendt
The Achievement of Hermann Broch¹ -
Stanley Edgar Hyman
Myth, Ritual, and Nonsense -
George Nobbe
Theatre Letter -
Allen Tate
Johnson on the Metaphysicals -
Donat O’Donnell
The Faust of Georges Bernanos -
Vivienne Koch
The Poetry of Allen Tate¹ -
Parker Tyler
Movie Letter: “Hamlet” and Documentary
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Allan Gilbert
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Poetry
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Arthur Boyars
Lovers in a Park -
Joseph Bennett
Quatrina -
Reuel Denney
Song -
W. R. Moses
The Spring Potomac -
W. R. Moses
After Leaf-Fall -
Arthur Boyars
Funeral -
Reuel Denney
The River Road -
Joseph Bennett
To C. T. C.
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Arthur Boyars
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Book Reviews
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Virgil C. Aldrich
Man as the Symbolizing Animal -
René Wellek
The Impasse of Literary History -
Paul Radin
What Is Anthropology? -
Quentin Anderson
Second Trip to Byzantium -
William Barrett
Aristocracy and/or Christianity -
Isaac Rosenfeld
The Love of Zombies -
Frank Jones
Embarrassing Questions -
R. W. Flint
Between Fraud and Heroism
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Virgil C. Aldrich
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Spring 1949
Vol. XI No. 2
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Fiction
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Michele Spina
Geltrude
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Michele Spina
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Nonfiction
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Richard Ellmann
The Ductile Universe of Henri Michaux -
Richard Eberhart
Errata: A Legend of Viable Women -
Robie Macauley
The Good Ford -
Eric Bentley
Chekhov as Playwright (Reconsiderations, No. XI) -
Philip Blair Rice
The Merging Parallels: Mann’s “Doctor Faustus” -
Wylie Sypher
Gide’s Cubist Novel
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Richard Ellmann
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Poetry
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Henri Michaux
In the Land of Magic -
Paul Éluard
Not to Be (Mourir) -
Buddhadeva Bose
The Burden of Everyday -
Paul Éluard
To Be (Vivre) -
Paul Éluard
Impossible Wish -
Jacques Prévert
The Song of the Two Snails Who Go to a Burial -
Buddhadeva Bose
Other Master -
Jacques Prévert
As Though It Were a Miracle
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Henri Michaux
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Communications
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Kenneth Burke
Communications
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Kenneth Burke
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Book Reviews
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Donald A. Stauffer
Artist Shining through His Vehicles -
William Empson
The Horrors of “King Lear” -
Robert E. Garis
Sour Notes from Harvard -
Isaac Rosenfeld
Aesthetics without Experience -
Irving Howe
The Cost of Distraction
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Donald A. Stauffer
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Winter 1949
Vol. XI No. 1
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The Critic's Business: By Four of the Critics
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Richard Chase
New vs. Ordealist -
William Barrett
A Present Tendency in American Criticism -
R. P. Blackmur
For a Second Look -
Allen Tate
A Note on Autotelism
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Richard Chase
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Fiction
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Wright Morris
A Man of Caliber -
Glidden Parker
Bright and Morning
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Wright Morris
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Nonfiction
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Parker Tyler
Movie Letter: Experimental Film: A New Growth -
George Hemphill
Hemingway and James -
Andrew Schiller
Shakespeare’s Amazing Words -
I. A. Richards
The Places and the Figures -
F. O. Matthiessen
Phelps Putnam (1894-1948) -
Richard Chase
Melville’s Confidence Man
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Parker Tyler
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Poetry
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Randall Jarrell
The Night before the Night before Christmas (1934) -
Richard Eberhart
A Legend of Viable Women -
James Merrill
Transfigured Bird -
John Holmes
But Choose -
Oliver Hale
Old War Film -
Rudolph Von Abele
The Idealists -
Roberta Teale Swartz
When All the Visitors Are Gone -
Oliver Hale
Soldier Body, Jerusalem -
John Holmes
From Brooklyn -
Roberta Teale Swartz
If More than Kindness -
Oliver Hale
Where Unimaginably Bright
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Randall Jarrell
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A Communication
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G. Wilson Knight
A Communication
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G. Wilson Knight
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Book Reviews
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Niel Glixon
The Education of Hart Crane -
John Pick
More about Hopkins -
Isa Kapp
Familial Relations -
Daniel Aaron
New England Shrub Oak -
R. W. Flint
New Books of Verse -
Robert E. Garis
Mozart and His Critic -
Francis Fergusson
The Tragedy of Passion
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Niel Glixon
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Autumn 1948
Vol. X No. 4
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Poetry
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Louis Kent
I Remember -
Louis Kent
Latitudes -
Louis Kent
The Catalpa World -
Byron Vazakas
The Twins -
Anthony Hecht
Fugue for One Voice -
Anthony Hecht
The Private Eye: A Detective Story
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Louis Kent
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Fiction
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The World’s Fair -
Elaine Gottlieb
Give Her Roses
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Nonfiction
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Eric Bentley
Monsieur Verdoux as “Theatre” -
Richard Chase
The Stone and the Crucifixion: Faulkner’s “Light in August” -
Lawrence E. Bowling
Faulkner: Technique of “The Sound and the Fury” -
Arthur Mizener
A Note on “The World’s Fair” -
William Empson
Emotions in Words Again -
Harold Rosenberg
The Resurrected Romans -
Benedetto Croce
Criticism in Italy -
Edwin Denby
The American Ballet -
Edwin Honig
Hobgoblin or Apollo
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Eric Bentley
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Communications
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Edouard H. Roditi
Wilde, Goodman, and Roditi
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Edouard H. Roditi
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Book Reviews
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John Crowe Ransom
The New Criticism -
Marjorie Grene
Philosopher’s Circus -
Philip Blair Rice
An Existentialist Allegory
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John Crowe Ransom
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Summer 1948
Vol. X No. 3
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Poetry
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Robert Lowell
Mother Marie Therese -
Stephen Spender
Epithalamion -
William Carlos Williams
Two Deliberate Exercises -
Babette Deutsch
Fountain and Unicorn
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Robert Lowell
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Fiction
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Paul Goodman
Our School
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Paul Goodman
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Nonfiction
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Eric Bentley
The Meaning of Robert Penn Warren’s Novels -
Hugh Kenner
The “Portrait” in Perspective -
John Crowe Ransom
The Literary Criticism of Aristotle¹ (Reconsiderations, No. 10) -
Wylie Sypher
Aesthetic of Revolution: The Marxist Melodrama -
Donat O’Donnell
Francois Mauriac: Catholic and Novelist -
Parker Tyler
Movie Letter: Film Form and Ritual As Reality-Principle
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Eric Bentley
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A Communication
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Philip Blair Rice
A Letter to a Frenchman
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Philip Blair Rice
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Book Reviews
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Stanley Edgar Hyman
Some Bankrupt Treasuries -
Howard Nemerov
The Poets -
Lionel Trilling
The Legend of the Lion -
Richard G. Salomon
History and Literature -
Marguerite Young
Tiger Lilies -
Leslie A. Fiedler
The Fate of the Novel
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Stanley Edgar Hyman
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Spring 1948
Vol. X No. 2
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A Group of Irish Poems
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Valentin Iremonger
The Dog -
George M. Brady
The Settled Men -
Donagh MacDonagh
Dublin Made Me -
Roy McFadden
The White Bird -
Patrick MacDonogh
The Snare
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Valentin Iremonger
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Poetry
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John Berryman
A Winter-Piece to a Friend Away -
John Berryman
Rock-Study with Wanderer
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John Berryman
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Fiction
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William Barrett
Two Scenarios for Ballet -
E. F. McGuire
If a Man Die -
Ruth Domino
The Shared Bed
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William Barrett
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Nonfiction
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Eric Bentley
Yeats as a Playwright -
Richard Ellmann
Robartes and Aherne: Two Sides of a Penny -
W. H. Auden
Yeats as an Example -
Jean Stafford
The Psychological Novel¹ -
Paul Valéry
Things Left Unsaid (Selections from “Choses Tues”) -
Hannah Arendt
Beyond Personal Frustration: The Poetry of Bertolt Brecht¹ -
Arthur Mizener
The Scrutiny Group
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Eric Bentley
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Book Reviews
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Eric Bentley
Sartre’s Struggle for Existenz -
R. P. Blackmur
Judgment, Form, Sensibility -
Roberta Teale Swartz
The New Micah -
P. M. Pasinetti
Letters for the Adept -
Jerome Mellquist
The Power of an Idea -
Paul Goodman
Tardy and Partial Recognition -
Eliseo Vivas
Historian and Moralist -
Leslie A. Fiedler
Mann and His Critics
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Eric Bentley
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