April 21, 2024
Toward a Methord for Musicology
Philosophies of Music History by Warren Dwight Allen. American Book Company. $3.50 Mr. Allen has undertaken a heroic task. His book is a history of music histories and a critical […]
April 21, 2024
Q’s Revisions
The New Oxford Book of English Verse edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Oxford Press. $3.00 Q used to come late to his class in Aristotle’s Poetics which met once a […]
April 21, 2024
The Nature of Comedy
In Praise of Comedy by James Feibleman. Macmillan. $3.75 Mr. Feibleman begins with two historical and critical surveys, then proceeds to develop an ambitious new theory of comedy, and winds […]
April 21, 2024
Unifying Science
International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. Vol. I, no. 3: Foundations of Logic and Mathematics by Rudolf Carnap. Vol. I, no. 4: Linguistic Aspects of Science by Leonard Bloomfield. Vol. II, […]
April 21, 2024
The Myth of Sainthood: a review of The Star of Satan by Georges Bernanos
The Star of Satan by George Bernanos. Macmillan. $2.50 Periodically the stream of French literature bursts its banks, casts off all moral fetters including Catholicism, and swings violently to the […]
April 20, 2024
The Loud Hill of Wales: a review of The World I Breathe by Dylan Thomas
The World I Breathe by Dylan Thomas. New Directions. $2.50 The unmistakable signature of Dylan Thomas’s poetry, so far as we have it in his three English volumes or in […]
April 20, 2024
France and Its Painting: a review of Modern French Painters by R. H. Wilenski; Verve VIII by E. Teriade; Paris, France by Gertrude Stein
Modern French Painters by R. H. Wilenski. Reynal & Hitchcock. $6.00 Verve VIII edited by E. Teriade. New York: Verve. $2.50 Paris, France by Gertrude Stein. Scribner. $2.50 At least […]
March 1, 2018
“Within Stone / the Mind Writhes”
Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. 736 pp. $40.00. For those who know Frank Bidart’s poems, the idea of him as a great […]
April 1, 1999
Responsible Delight: Revaluation: John Berryman
Like his raucous character Henry, protagonist of his fragmented epic, The Dream Songs, John Berryman emerges in his work and life a “human American man.” The issues the Dream Songs […]
September 26, 1943
Vagaries of Wagenknecht
Cavalcade Of the English Novel From Elizabeth to George VI by Edward Wagenknecht. Holt $4.00 Dr. Wagenknecht’s Cavalcade of the English Novel, the most inclusive one-volume survey since Cross, includes […]