January 1, 1968
Too Much Spinach
Byron and the Ruins of Paradise by Robert F. Gleckner. The Johns Hopkins Press, $8.95. In the slovenly old days before the New Criticism, it was possible for a critic […]
January 1, 1968
Thesis and Antithesis
Expressionist Watercolors 1905-1920 by Werner Hofmann. Harry N. Abrams, $20.00. Painters of the Bauhaus by Eberhard Roters. Fredrick A. Praeger, $18.50. The German philosopher Theodor Lessing is author of […]
January 1, 1968
Making It Home
North Toward Home by Willie Morris. Houghton Mifflin Company, $5.95. Making It by Norman Podhoretz. Random House, $6.95. A first section of Willie Morris’ North toward Home appeared in […]
January 1, 1968
The Art of Scientific Biography
Great Abnormals: The Pathological Genius of Kafka, Van Gogh, Strindberg and Poe by Vernon W. Grant. Hawthorn Books, $6.95. The word for Mr. Grant’s study of four great wits is […]
January 1, 1968
Paradise Lost Regained
The Logical Epic: A Study of the Argument of “Paradise Lost” by D. H. Burden. Harvard University Press, $4.50. Paradise Lost: A Deliberate Epic by Ernest Sirluck. W. Heffer and […]
January 1, 1968
The Body
The Body by Michael Benedikt. Wesleyan University Press, $4.00 (cloth), $2.00 (paper). Most of the poems in Michael Benedikt’s volume, The Body, move and sport and have their being in […]
January 1, 1968
More Misses than Hits
A Sense of the Present by William Phillips. Chilmark Press, $5.75. Where She Brushed Her Hair by Max Steele. Harper and Brothers, $5.95. Night in Funland by William Peden. Louisiana […]
January 1, 1968
Quixotism Vindicated
Our Lord Don Quixote: The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho, with Related Essays by Miguel de Unamuno. Translated by Anthony Kerrigan; introduction by Walter Starkie. Princeton University Press, $6.50. […]
January 1, 1968
Conservatism: Literary and Political
The Conservative Tradition in America by Allen Guttmann. Oxford University Press, $6.00. Allen Guttmann’s thesis may be stated briefly, and in his own words. The “Liberal tradition (of which John […]
January 1, 1968
Leaders and Others: Some New British Poetry
Touch by Thom Gunn. University of Chicago Press, $3.95. Wodwo by Ted Hughes. Harper and Row, $4.95. The Storms by Peter Dale. Dufour Editions, $3.75. The Lion’s Mouth by Alan […]
January 1, 1968
Listening to Novels
The Passion Players by Edmund P. Murray. Crown Publishers, $5.95. The Exagggerations of Peter Prince [The Novel by Steve Katz]. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, $6.95. Above Ground by Jack Ludwig. […]
November 1, 1967
Dressing Giraudoux for Market
Plays: Amphitryon, Intermezzo, Ondine by Jean Giraudoux. Translated by Roger Gellert. Oxford University Press, $5.75. When the APA production of Jean Giraudoux’s Judith opened in New York in 1965, my […]