October 1, 1942
We Resume
We offer a note upon our resumption of publication, after omitting the Summer number while we were engaged in campaigning for new and necessary funds. We feel as secure in […]
October 1, 1942
Mr. Russell and Mr. Schorer
“A myth is a large, controlling image which gives philosophical meaning to the facts of ordinary life,” says Mr. Schorer. And then: “Without such images, experience is chaotic and fragmentary, […]
April 1, 1942
War and Publication
The announcement in the Southern Review’s winter issue of the suspension of that quarterly need not be mentioned in the same breath with Pearl Harbor, yet in the total perspective […]
September 17, 1941
The Aesthetics of Music
In this issue Mr. W. H. Mellers, the very able English critic, discusses the difficulty of writing about music. As he sees it, the trouble is that music expresses emotional […]
September 17, 1941
The Younger Poets
The “Younger Poets,” as we should describe those who appear in this issue within the poetry section of that title, are the ones who have not yet published whole books […]
July 1, 1941
Moholy-Nagy’s New Arts
When Mr. Moholy-Nagy came to the United States, it meant, evidently, that here would develop the abstract and “constructivist” arts for which he is famous. That such arts are possible […]
July 1, 1940
Mr. Tate and the Professors
The Princeton Alumni Weekly of March 8 published an article by Mr. Allen Tate describing his way of handling the Creative Arts Program for the Princeton student writers, who are […]
July 1, 1940
Old Age of a Poet
Yeats had as fine a personal endowment as a poet requires, and sometimes his successes were complete. Perhaps he was as great a lyric poet as our time permitted, and […]
April 1, 1940
Psychoanalysis: The Second Wave
The initial wave of popular interest in psychoanalysis arrived during the years just after the first World War. From the therapeutic side, it may have been given impetus by the […]
January 1, 1940
Editorial Notes
The Cover The cover for the 1940 volume, beginning with this number, is designed by Mr. Norris Rahming. The symbol it carries is an adapted photograph of one of the […]
October 1, 1939
The Aesthetic of Finnegans Wake
Critics who have found nothing to say for this book, and critics who have found nothing to say against it, are both uncritical. The first understand only that Joyce disdains […]
April 1, 1939
The Arts and the Philosophers
Clearyly the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science is to be a philosophical enterprise, not a scientific one: scientia scientiarum. The editor of a literary journal follows it principally with this […]