July 1, 1983
Aesthetic Experience and Literary Hermeneutics
Aesthetic Experience and Literary Hermeneutics by Hans Robert Jauss. Translated from the German by Michael Shaw. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 357 pages. 1982. $29.50. Hans Robert Jauss’s Aesthetic Experience […]
July 1, 1983
The War within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945
The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945 by Daniel Joseph Singal. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982. 453 pages. $27.00. When in 1926 […]
July 1, 1983
D. H. Lawrence
A D.H. Lawrence Handbook edited by Keith Sagar. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1982. 454 pages. $28.50. 454 pp. D.H. Lawrence and Feminism by Hilary Simpson. DeKalb: Northern Illinois […]
July 1, 1983
The “Hound & Horn” Letters
The “Hound & Horn” Letters edited by Mitzi Berger Hamovitch. Athens, Ga.: The University of Georgia Press, 1982. 247 pages. $25.00. About twenty-five years or so ago I was privileged […]
January 1, 1970
Shorter Reviews: Europe
Europe by William Blake. A facsimile edition issued by the William Blake Trust. Trianon Press, $131.04. William Blake saw the revolutionary events of his own time within the context of […]
January 1, 1970
Shorter Reviews: Lunar Landscapes: Stories and Short Novels, 1949-1963
Lunar Landscapes: Stories and Short Novels, 1949-1963, by John Hawkes. New Directions, $5.95. “Landscape” is a key tern in Hawkes’s aesthetic. The basic strategy of his work has always been […]
January 1, 1970
The Poetry of David Wagoner
New and Selected Poems by David Wagoner. Indiana University Press, $6.00. David Wagoner seems to me one of our best poets, perhaps one of the best we have ever had […]
January 1, 1970
Some First Volumes
Firstborn by Louise Gliuck. New American Library, $4.00. The Storm & Other Poems by William Pitt Root. Atheneum Publishers, $4.95. Sweating Out the Winter by David P. Young. University of […]
January 1, 1970
Integrities
Integrities Pieces by Robert Creeley. Charles Scribner’s Sons, $4.50. The Zigzag Walk by John Logan. E. P. Dutton and Company, $5.95. Both Robert Creeley and John Logan live in a […]
January 1, 1970
Racial Renegade
George W. Cable: The Life and Times of a Southern Heretic by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Pegasus, $6.95. Professor Rubin’s George W. Cable, which is much concerned with the Negro […]
January 1, 1970
Some Light and Much Shadow
Rembrandt: The Complete Edition of the Paintings by A. Bredius. Edited by Horst Gerson. Phaidon Press, $20.00. Rembrandt Paintings by Horst Gerson. Reynal and Company-William Morrow and Company, $39.95. Rembrandt: […]
January 1, 1970
Preparing Men to Rule
Governing Elites: Studies in Training and Selection edited by Rupert Wilkinson. Oxford University Press, $6.50. Elite is an evocative word with connotations mostly unpleasant. Once applied to the military, it […]