October 1, 1956
Communication
(Concerning “English Verse and What It Sounds Like,” Summer issue) Sir: I’m sorry that my footnote should appear to Mr. Ransom to undercut so radically my criticism of Mr. Stein. […]
July 1, 1954
Communication
Sirs, If I may be so carping as to pick a fault in an otherwise good issue of the Kenyon Review (Spring, 1954), I should like to complain about the […]
April 1, 1954
Othello Is Saved
SIRS: The violent abscission of part of an object, part of an egg-yolk for instance, or a slice of a human head, may make the object look rather queer, even […]
April 1, 1954
Hugh MacDiarmid
Sirs: In calling attention to the development of Lallans poetry, Stanley Edgar Hyman has performed a service through his article, “The Language of Scottish Poetry.” I feel, however, that he […]
January 1, 1954
Communication
Sirs: A reviewer is entitled to his independent judgment, but Paul Goodman’s review of Eric Bentley’s In Search of Theatre (Autumn, 1953) strikes me as an exercise in critical incompetence […]
April 1, 1953
On the Aristotelian Front
Sir: To give an accurate report on any closely reasoned discourse, as an indispensable preliminary to a fair criticism of it, is not easy, as can be seen by comparing […]
April 1, 1953
Reply by the Author
I had thought, and still think, that my report on the Chicago critics was reasonably honest. Only twice, so far as I know, did I make a representation of them […]
April 1, 1953
The English of Englished
Sirs: I have just been reading your Dante number (Spring 1952) with particular interest, since we have the good fortune to be publishing Fergusson’s Dante’s Drama of the Mind in […]
April 1, 1953
Fan Letter
R. Jarrell’s “Institution” is the funniest thing I ever hope to read. Please, please, isn’t there any way I can read the rest of it without having to wait? It’s […]
April 1, 1951
Mr. Hyman and the Dictionary
SIRS: In a review of Volume I of The Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend (1949, Maria Leach, Ed.) which was published in your Autumn 1950 […]
October 1, 1949
Communications
Sirs, The problems of the post here have kept me from getting my Spring Kenyon Review till July, when I write this; I do not want to hide from the […]
April 1, 1949
Communications
SIRS: I am preparing a biography of Alfred Stieglitz—American photographer and pioneer in introducing modern art to this country—and I am desirous of collecting letters from him, as well as […]