January 1, 1946
Shapiro Is All Right
(Editors’ Note.—William Carlos Williams is treated by Shapiro as an “objectivist” poet, in part as follows: And (if this is not irrelevant) I for one Have stared long hours at […]
January 1, 1946
Art and Action
Portions of the “Speculation” in the Autumn issue dealt with the relationship of art and action. Even though uncounted millions of words must have been written about art and action […]
January 1, 1946
Pre-Hispanic Quota in Mexican Murals
In times of unrest the Indian quota shoots upwards, more for a symbolical pennant than as a true racial claim. For Mexicans bloods are so thoroughly churned that Hidalgo, a […]
January 1, 1946
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“In the Twenties, his heyday, he was a kind of king of our American youth”—so a writer of Fitzgerald’s generation remembered him when he died five years ago. It would […]
January 1, 1946
The Intimations of the Ode: Reconsiderations V
Wordsworth’s great “Intimations Ode” has been for so long intimately connected with Wordsworth’s own autobiography, and indeed, Wordsworth’s poems in general have been so consistently interpreted as documents in the […]
January 1, 1946
Jean-Paul Sartre, Dramatist: The Thinker as Playwright
From The Playwright as Thinker The question for some years has been: Can the non-naturalistic drama of Paris, for all its charms, grow into something more mature? If Jean Cocteau […]
January 1, 1946
Shapiro on Rime¹
(Editors’ Note.—In the “Note and Acknowledgment” appended to the Essay, Shapiro gives thanks to William Van O’Connor For many helpful comments and the use Of several of his studies. … ) It is […]
October 1, 1945
Mr. Tyler’s Approach
Sirs, In his review of my book, The Hollywood Hallucination, in the Summer issue Mr. Eric Russell Bentley briefly, but with crystalline lucidity, expressed the critical consensus of 80 percent […]
October 1, 1945
Theses upon Art and Religion Today
I. The lost unity between art and religion, be it regarded as wholesome or as hampering, cannot be regained at will. This unity was not a matter of purposeful cooperation, […]
October 1, 1945
Subjectivity in Modern Fiction
What appears on first reading to be most “serious” or impressive in current fiction turns out nearly always to be most evanescent in recollection. We are so ready to sympathize […]
October 1, 1945
The Religious Poetry of Robert Penn Warren
It rots her sleep—Jenny is one of those who nip like a bird and void like an ox—the poor and lightly damned! That can be a torture also. —Djuna Barnes, […]
October 1, 1945
Art and the Human Economy
The two preceding papers were furnished independently, and there is some editorial presumption in having collated them, and now in commenting them together. Special disservice is done to Mr. Southard, […]