January 1, 1942
Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture
As is natural to a teacher and polemicist, a propagandist when he cannot build and a critic of what he has built,—and all this for forty-seven years!—the publications of Wright […]
January 1, 1942
Katherine Anne Porter (Irony with a Center)
The fiction of Katherine Anne Porter, despite the wide-spread critical adulation, has never found the public which its distinction merits. Many of her stories are unsurpassed in modern fiction, and […]
September 17, 1941
Winters on Eliot
[Many communications have come to us defending T. S. Eliot against his critic, Yvor Winters, whose serial essay, “T. S. Eliot: The Illusion of Reaction,” has appeared in this Volume; […]
September 17, 1941
Wyndham Lewis on Picasso
Sir, Your article on Picasso by Wyndham Lewis was very bad. I think that like many literary people you have an indirect understanding of the visual arts, and that since […]
September 17, 1941
Romanticism
He who seeks to define Romanticism is entering a hazardous occupation which has claimed many victims. It would be foolhardy to desire to multiply the difficulties. I wish to state […]
September 17, 1941
The Failure of Naturalism (A Reply to Eliseo Vivas)
A British writer once remarked that all good fallacies when they die go to America, where they are reborn as some Amercian professor’s latest discovery. So it is with the […]
September 17, 1941
The New Naturalism
There is no comprehensive statement for the non-professional reader of the central affirmations of a type of philosophic naturalism that is at present quietly under elaboration in the schools. Indeed, […]
September 17, 1941
On Writing about Music
“Music is of all arts the nearest to the abstract sense … the most nearly related to Nature: not to its forms but to its being.” — Ferrucio Busoni. There never was […]
September 17, 1941
Four Master Tropes
I refer to metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony. And my primary concern with them here will be not with their purely figurative usage, but with their role in the discovery […]
July 1, 1941
Sherwood Anderson
I find it hard, and I think it would be false, to write of Sherwood Anderson without speaking of him personally and even emotionally. I did not know him; I […]
July 1, 1941
The Nazis Purge Philosophy
In view of the universal occupation with the threatening military and diplomatic activities of present day Germany, even those whose particular business it is to keep a sharp and expectant […]
July 1, 1941
Edward Taylor’s Poetry: Colonial Baroque
To students of poetry, “metaphysical” has become a term almost as troublesome as “romantic.” Once pejorative, it has turned into an adjective of eulogy; but, as before, its scope remains […]