July 1, 1945
The Nuisance of Music “Re-Creations”
My thesis is based on the following definition of art, which I have defended elsewhere: Art is the formation of an inner experience (religious, or aesthetic, or social, or political, […]
July 1, 1945
The Conformity of Leonov
Sirs: Marjorie Farber’s review of Road to the Ocean in the Spring Kenyon Review impressed me as a provocative commentary on certain aspects of Leonov’s artistic method. Her insistence upon […]
July 1, 1945
Two Masters of Dry Point
S. W. Hayter By T. Catesby Jones There are reproduced in this issue of the magazine two prints, one by Laboureur and another by S. W. Hayter, the two printmakers […]
April 1, 1945
In Defense of Dylan Thomas
Sir: In your Winter ’44 issue, Arthur Mizener speaks of . . . the widespread adoption among the younger poets (I mean those who have developed since Auden) of the […]
April 1, 1945
Art Worries the Naturalists: Who in Turn Worry the Arts with Organism, Fusion, Funding
The apologist of the arts cannot do otherwise than refer the question of their strange kind of activity to the current philosophies; therefore, in these days, to naturalism. I have […]
April 1, 1945
The Sense of the Present
It is proof of our respect for a critic that he sometimes forces us to disagree with him. We can even admire him most and learn most from him, if […]
April 1, 1945
Communications
SIR: As one professing a specialty in things Spanish, Mr. Mallan has made such a muddled display of his knowledge that I feel the animus behind his review of García […]
April 1, 1945
The Drama at Ebb
“The drama is always at a low ebb.” —Bernard Shaw. No one could deny that the situation of the theatre is today very problematic. Many discussions of the problem, however, […]
April 1, 1945
A Social Critique of Radio Music
Some would approach the problem of radio by formulating questions of this type: If we confront such and such a sector of the population with such and such a type […]
April 1, 1945
Restoration Comedy (Reconsiderations II)
In the year 1924 two critical books on Restoration comedy were published, each excellent in its kind, written from points of view markedly different, yet in a measure complementary. Bonamy […]
January 1, 1945
The New York Wits
It may indeed turn out that the present cleavage between popular and rational forms of entertainment will never be mended. The common reader with whom Dr. Johnson rejoiced to concur […]
January 1, 1945
French Reaction in Exile
I think it will interest American readers to acquaint themselves with the latest and most peculiar phase of French literary reaction, which appears also as a bold manifestation of avant-garde […]