April 1, 1943
Good Neighbor Poets
An Anthology of Contemporary Latin American Poetry. Edited by Dudley Fitts. New Directions. $3.50 “This anthology,” writes Dudley Fitts in the opening sentence of his preface, “is intended as an […]
April 1, 1943
Psychopathic like Charlie
My World—and Welcome to It. By James Thurber. Harcourt, Brace & Co. $2.50. Thurber’s is an interesting personality: amazingly funny, tearfully sad and almost embarrassingly honest. I don’t whether anyone […]
April 1, 1943
Gallic American
Memories Of Happy Days by Julian Green. Harpers. $3.00. The lives of the poets are among the pleasant by-products of literature—the leisurely, intimate personal conversations about the past such as […]
April 1, 1943
On Symbolism
Philosophy In A New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art by Susanne K. Langer. Harvard. $3.00. I should like to convince my readers that Miss […]
April 1, 1943
A French Aesthetic
The Life Of Forms In Art by Henri Focillon. Translated by C. Beecher Hogan and George Kubler. Yale University Press. $2.50. Since Professor Focillon’s book uses the word form on […]
January 1, 1943
In Eisenstein’s Workshop
The Film Sense by Sergei M. Eisenstein. Translated by Jay Leyda. Harcourt, Brace. $3.00. Eisenstein’s name is for ever bound up with his film Potemkin which, through its content as […]
January 1, 1943
Eternal Verities
The Just And The Unjust by James Gould Cozzens. Harcourt Brace. $2.50. The Just and the Unjust is a novel dealing with the murder trial of two pathetic criminals. The […]
January 1, 1943
Critical Relativism
The Idiom Of Poetry by Frederick Pottle. Cornell University. $2.00. Out of the miscellanies of our poetic stock Professor Pottle has lined up a more useful stability than we have […]
January 1, 1943
Between the Image and the Thought
A Witness Tree by Robert Frost. Henry Holt. $2.00. Fire And Ice by Lawrence Thompson. Henry Holt. $2.50. It is easy to talk about poetry and hard to talk about […]
January 1, 1943
Lady Flat on Her Back
The Company She Keeps by Mary McCarthy. Simon and Schuster. $2.50. The author says her “novel in six parts” is about “a missing object … the ordinary, indispensable self that has somehow […]
January 1, 1943
Mrs. Woolf and Mrs. Brown
Virginia Woolf by E. M. Forster. Harcourt, Brace. $1.00. Virginia Woolf by David Daiches. New Directions. $1.50. The Death Of The Moth by Virginia Woolf. Harcourt, Brace. $3.00. In her […]
January 1, 1943
There Is a War That Never Ends
Parts of the World by Wallace Stevens. Knopf. $2.00. Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction by Wallace Stevens. Cummington Press. $3.00. Wallace Stevens protects himself so well against profanation that one […]