April 21, 2024
More Semantics of Poetry
Sirs: Mr. Wheelwright bases his contribution to the “Semantics of Poetry,” in a recent Kenyon Review, on a terminology by which poetic language can be factually discussed,—”a set of definitive […]
September 17, 1941
Winters on Eliot
[Many communications have come to us defending T. S. Eliot against his critic, Yvor Winters, whose serial essay, “T. S. Eliot: The Illusion of Reaction,” has appeared in this Volume; […]
September 17, 1941
Wyndham Lewis on Picasso
Sir, Your article on Picasso by Wyndham Lewis was very bad. I think that like many literary people you have an indirect understanding of the visual arts, and that since […]
April 1, 1940
Correspondence
Sirs: I don’t quite see the point of Mr. Ransom’s comments on Malraux in the Winter issue. It may or may not be true that the ideas of the “school” […]