October 1, 1939
A Good Workman
Collected Poems, 1922-1938. By Mark Van Doren. Henry Holt. $3.50 Mark Van Doren’s Collected Poems let us see now the curve of his work over the two decades since its […]
October 1, 1939
New Irish Stew
Finnegan’s Wake. By James Joyce. The Viking Press. $5.00 A generation ago J. M. Synge pointed out that writers had been content for too long too make a mutually exclusive […]
October 1, 1939
Jazz as Language
Jazz: Hot and Hybrid. By Winthrop Sargeant. Arrow Editions. $5.00 American Jazz Music. By Wilder Hobson. W. W. Norton. $2.50 Considering the extraordinary extent to which the jazz language has […]
October 1, 1939
The Tragedy of Eldorado
The Grapes of Wrath. By John Steinbeck. Viking Press. $2.75 Out in the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma, the earth is dying of sheer exhaustion. Three generations back, white men took […]
July 1, 1939
Active Listening
An American Musician’s Story. By Olga Samaroff Stokowski. W. W. Norton. $3.00What to Listen for in Music. By Aaron Copland. Whittlesey House. 12.50 I have not read Mme. Olga Samaroff […]
July 1, 1939
Laura Riding
The Collected Poems of Laura Riding. Random House. $4.00 Of all the contemporary poems I know, these seem to me the furthest advanced, the most personal and the purest. I […]
July 1, 1939
Feminine without the Charm
Pilgrimage by Dorothy Richardson. Four Volumes. Knopf. $3 per volume or $10 the set. I very much dislike this work but this is a judgment which, for two reasons, I […]
July 1, 1939
Speculations on Sin
The Family Reunion. By T. S. Eliot. Harcourt, Brace and Co. $1.50 It is perhaps scarcely legitimate to compare Murder in the Cathedral, which is more properly a pageant than […]
July 1, 1939
Criticism with Myopia
The Art of Cezanne. By Albert C. Barnes and Violette de Mazia. Illustrated. Harcourt, Brace and Co. $5.00Picasso. By Gertrude Stein. Scribner’s. $3.00 On page 114 of The Art of […]
July 1, 1939
Humanism Ten Years After
Humanism and Imagination. By G. R. Elliott. University of North Carolina Press. $2.50 The chronicle of the movement known as the New Humanism remains to be written; and when that […]
July 1, 1939
Poet or Sage?
Collected Poems. By Robert Frost. Henry Holt. $5.00 The publication of Mr. Robert Frost’s Collected Poems provides an appropriate occasion for making an estimate of Mr. Frost’s rank and importance […]
July 1, 1939
Limitations of the Fable
Over the Mountain. By Ruthven Todd. Knopf. $2.50The Professor. By Rex Warner. Knopf. $2.50 It could be argued that Franz Kafka is interesting as an illustration of an occasional phenomenon […]