October 1, 1986
The History of Southern Literature
The History of Southern Literature edited by Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Blyden Jackson, Rayburn S. Moore, Lewis P. Simpson, Thomas Daniel Young, Mary Ann Wimsatt, and Robert L. Phillips. Baton […]
October 1, 1986
The Typical Poem
The Mural of Wakeful Sleep by Laurence Lieberman. New York: Macmillan, 1985. 110 pp. $16.95, $8.95 paper. Assumptions by Marilyn Hacker. New York: Knopf, 1985, 92 pp. $8.95 paper. Prime […]
October 1, 1986
A Tale of Two Handmaids
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1986. 311 pages. $16.95. The Magnificent Spinster by May Sarton. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1985. 384 […]
July 1, 1986
The Literature That Was Greece
A Short History of Greek Literature by Jacqueline de Romilly. Translated by Lillian Doherty. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1985. xii + 293 pages. $27.00, cloth; $9.95, […]
July 1, 1986
The Struggle to Name the Unnameable
Atrocity and Amnesia: The Political Novel Since 1945 by Robert Boyers. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. 259 pages. $24.95. The political novel requires a scene of tyranny or […]
July 1, 1986
Gathering Light
What the Light Was Like by Amy Clampitt. New York: Knopf, 1985. 110 pages. $14.95, cloth; $8.95, paper. The Past by Galway Kinnell. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. 57 pages. $13.95, […]
July 1, 1986
A Figurative Quest
The Linguistic Moment: From Wordsworth to Stevens by J. Hillis Miller. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. xxi + 445 pages. $38.00. In this deeply intelligent work, Miller takes up eight […]
April 1, 1986
Universal Dimensions
Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture by Jaroslav Pelikan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. 270 pages. $22.50. Jaroslav Pelikan scarcely needs an introduction. His […]
April 1, 1986
Illinois Short Fiction: The Tenth Anniversary
Honeymoon by Merrill Joan Gerber. 136 pages. Tentacles of Unreason by Joan Givner. 144 pages. The Christmas Wife by Helen Norris. 144 pages. Getting to Know the Weather by Pamela […]
April 1, 1986
The Heroics of Clarity
Local Assays: On Contemporary American Poetry by Dave Smith. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1985. 252 pages. $18.95, hardbound. The Roundhouse Voices: Selected and New Poems by Dave Smith. New […]
April 1, 1986
“The Moment Writing Comes in Sight”
The Journals of Thornton Wilder, 1939-1961, With Two Scenes of an Uncompleted Play, “The Emporium.” Selected and edited by Donald Gallup, with a Foreword by Isabel Wilder. New Haven: Yale […]
January 1, 1986
Peter Taylor’s Most Recent Fiction
The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor. Garden City. NY: Dial Press, 1985. 358 pages. $16.95. In this latest collection of Peter Taylor’s fiction, he demonstrates how committedly […]