January 1, 1989
Introduction: Special Anniversary Feature: Excerpts from the War Years
When we decided to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of The Kenyon Review—founded by John Crowe Ransom and first appearing in Winter, 1939—by republishing a selection of pieces from the early […]
July 1, 1981
Contemporary English and Irish Poetry: An Introduction
No consideration of the tenor of poetry as it is being currently written and/or published in England makes sense if it is divorced from a much larger question. The real […]
July 1, 1981
Three Young Hungarian Poets: An Introduction
The three young Hungarian poets I have translated here have created a new subject matter, sensibility, and tone. Yet their highly individualistic poetics looks outwards towards man’s problematical existence in […]
January 1, 1964
To John Crowe Ransom
For twenty-one of its twenty-five years, The Kenyon Review appeared under the editorship of John Crowe Ransom. This 100th issue of the magazine is dedicated to Mr. Ransom and […]