January 1, 1943
Prophet and Professor
The Future Of Industrial Man by Peter F. Drucker. John Day. $2.50. The United States And Civilization by John U. Nef. University of Chicago Press. $3.00. “It is always to […]
January 1, 1943
A Master of Irony
Philosophical Fragments by Sören Kierkegaard. Translated by D. F. Swenson. Princeton University Press. $2.00. Stages On Life’s Way by Sören Kierkegaard. Translated by W. Lowrie. Princeton University Press. $6.00. Concluding […]
January 1, 1943
Silone’s Limbo
The Seed Beneath The Snow by Ignazio Silone. Translated from the Italian by Frances Frenaye. Harpers. $2.75. By comparison with the inclusive consciousness which Silone has brought to anti-fascist literature, […]
October 1, 1942
Bright Disorder
James Joyce: A Critical Introduction by Harry Levin. The first volume in the Makers of Modern Literature Series. New Directions. $1.50 Mr Levin’s book about Joyce is most valuable, […]
October 1, 1942
Schooled and Unschooled Art
The Emergence of an American Art by Jerome Mellquist. Scribners. $3.75 They Taught Themselves by Sidney Janis. Dial Press. $3.50 Jerome Mellquist’s emergence, in a maiden book on professional […]
October 1, 1942
From Prometheus to Maitreya
Paths of Life: Preface to a World Religion by Charles Morris. Harpers. $3.00 This book comes as a surprise. Mr. Morris has never denied the importance of religion. But […]
October 1, 1942
The Humble Animal
What Are Years by Marianne Moore. Macmillan. $1.50 I’ve read Miss Moore’s poetry too many years and too many times not to have the feeling that both the poetry […]
October 1, 1942
Fiction and Rhetoric
The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck. Viking Press. $2.00 Steinbeck attempts to put across his meaning both through the relation of the events he describes to the events […]
October 1, 1942
The “Mesures” Lectures
The Language Of Poetry by Philip Wheelwright, Cleanth Brooks, I. A. Richards, and Wallace Stevens. Edited with a Preface by Allen Tate. Princeton University Press. $2.00 This small volume, […]
October 1, 1942
Artists and the “Societal” Function
Writers in Crisis by Maxwell Geismar. Houghton Mifflin. $3.00 Directions in Contemporary Literature by Philo Buck, Jr. Oxford. $3.00 The Novel and Society by N. Elizabeth Monroe. University of North […]
April 1, 1942
Translators Beware
Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus: An English Version by Robert Fitzgerald. Harcourt, Brace. $1.50 This translation is in verse. Mr. Fitzgerald assures the reader that it is so close that […]
April 1, 1942
Form and Content
The Double Man by W. H. Auden. Random House. $2.00 Selected Poems by John Peale Bishop. Scribners. $2.00 The collocation of these two books tempts one to propose classifications: […]