February 3, 2024
Reply to Mr. Wheelwright
When the editors informed me of their intention to publish in the fall issue, together with my “The New Naturalism,” a criticism by Mr. Philip Wheelwright, I fell in with […]
July 1, 1955
The Music of Charles Ives
Sirs: Robert Evett’s “A Post-mortem for Mr. Ives” was not only harsh (“a composer whoring after novelty”) and offensive (Ives “smelled like Whitman’s armpits”), but also heedless of truth. I […]
January 1, 1949
A Communication
Sirs: I was indeed grateful for Mr. Stanley Hyman’s generous remarks concerning my Shakespearian interpretations in The Kenyon Review (Winter 1948). May I nevertheless offer a rejoinder? Mr. Hyman considers […]
July 1, 1948
A Letter to a Frenchman
Dear B.: You have summed up accurately the feeling expressed in my letter from Paris: that France in the autumn and early winter of 1947 was still very beautiful, but […]