January 1, 1947
Pictorial Tragedy
Georg Friedrich Hegel, who lived between the late 18th and early 19th Centuries, foresaw the fading away of a particular kind of art consciousness, the fading away of romanticism. Hegel […]
January 1, 1947
The Literary Manner
For more than a generation Kierkegaard has been the object of an intensive study on the Continent, and since the publication of Alexander Dru’s translation of the Journals in 1938 […]
January 1, 1947
The Philosophy
A thinker who hates the abstract complexity of metaphysical systems, yet whose thought is persistently, in fact systematically directed to working through a single all-important problem:—such a thinker’s work should […]
October 1, 1946
Dance Letter
Hardly a dance season goes by that one doesn’t hear some sort of story about a student falling into a dead faint backstage when Martha Graham graciously accepts the congratulations […]
October 1, 1946
The Importance of Religion (Post-War Stock-Taking III)
Contemporary civilization is threatened by its failure to reduce the incidence of destructive hostility, and it is also dispirited by a deficiency in significant public use of interpretive imagination. Contemplating […]
October 1, 1946
Henry James and the New Jerusalem: Of Morality and Style
Few critics still view Henry James simply as a consciousness or sensibility whose morality has no sanction but taste. It is an inference forced upon us by his style that […]
October 1, 1946
The Life of the Novel
Nowadays we hear a great deal about the decay of the novel, and people often speak of it as it were a natural thing, the inevitable petering-out of a form […]
October 1, 1946
Doctor Johnson: Reconsiderations VII
[Editors’ Note: Mr. Leavis’ examination of Mr. Krutch’s recent book led him to make a fresh statement of Johnson’s whole achievement. The sub-title is ours.] Mr. Krutch’s book,1 I must […]
July 1, 1946
Notes on the Theatre
The Hero Who Can Prove It I found the New York stage badly cluttered with ideas and problems this season. The distinction between what is dramatic and what is not […]
July 1, 1946
Bernard Shaw’s Politics: A Birthday Tribute¹
Of the fifteen reputations which Shaw has laid claim to, his reputation as a socialist is perhaps the most familiar. Shaw has been expounding socialism for over sixty years, and […]
July 1, 1946
A Poem of Pure Imagination: Reconsiderations VI
[Editors’ Note: The present essay is composed of three of the seven sections of an extended study of Coleridge’s RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. Section 1 analyzes the evidence for […]
July 1, 1946
Joyce’s Ulysses and the French Public
From the French. It was on the 7th of December 1921 that Valéry Larbaud introduced the Irish writer, James Joyce, to the “Amis des Livres.” He spoke particularly of […]