January 1, 1945
The Aestheticism of W. B. Yeats
No question is of greater moment for the understanding of modern poetry than that of the relationship of art to life. The various schools and movements of the last hundred […]
January 1, 1945
Schoenberg and Strauss
(The 80th birthday of Richard Strauss was June 11, and the 70th birthday of Arnold Schoenberg was September 13, 1944.) The present state of stylistic divergence in Western music is […]
January 1, 1945
Reconsiderations:¹ I. Lycidas
The importance of few “minor” poems is more widely recognized than that of Lycidas. There is no other about which more has been said. But there is no other, perhaps, […]
October 1, 1944
Monument Not Quite Needed
It is difficult to be fair to Miss Ruggles’ centennial life of Hopkins.1 By conventional literary and commercial standards, it is not only “needed” but adequate and creditable. It supplies […]
October 1, 1944
The Lost Cause of Jacob Uber
One thing alone kept people from hating Jacob Uber: the undeniable fact that his entire life was overshadowed by suffering, a suffering so intense that in the end it destroyed […]
October 1, 1944
Memory of France: April 1944
In a few months it will be five years since I left France. September 1, 1939, and now April, 1944. Not a day has passed that I haven’t thought of […]
October 1, 1944
The Theatres of Wagner and Ibsen
But there can be no doubt that Wagner, and Ibsen too, will one day come into their own again, even though for quite different reasons and out of quite different […]
October 1, 1944
Victorian Hopkins
The emphasis on the oddness and modernness of Hopkins’ poetry has diminished considerably of late. This shift began, perhaps, with Mr. Abbott’s Introductions to the Letters; it is marked in […]
October 1, 1944
The Hopkins Centennial: A Note
[We published in the Summer issue four papers about General Manley Hopkins, on the occasion of the centennial anniversary of the poet’s birth. The tribute is concluded with the three […]
October 1, 1944
Education for the Age of Labor
When Labor creates its own classes and colleges it says: I shall no longer think at your command.—Henrik De Man. A recent bulletin of the New School for Social Research […]
October 1, 1944
Education for the Age of Power
At an early point in Mr. Magg’s essay it is clear that he is not writing about labor union education but about political labor education. The bare mention he makes […]
July 1, 1944
The Analogical Mirrors
Hopkins is full of pitfalls for the unwary. There is a double difficulty: his Catholic beliefs and experience on one hand; his individual use of the resources of English on […]