April 1, 1940
Picasso
Fifty years hence the “art-expert” of the day may quite probably class Pablo Picasso with Gauguin. Among other things, Picasso is a great exotic. But he is, of course, as […]
April 1, 1940
America’s Language: A to DEW
As a national language, American English is a distinctive variety of English without distinctive regional origins. Its distinctiveness encompasses speech-areas as diverse as Eastern New England and Tidewater Virginia, which, […]
April 1, 1940
Correspondence
Sirs: I don’t quite see the point of Mr. Ransom’s comments on Malraux in the Winter issue. It may or may not be true that the ideas of the “school” […]
April 1, 1940
The Legacy of Sigmund Freud: An Appraisal: Therapeutic, Literary and Aesthetic, Philosophical
I. Therapeutic By Alexander Reid Martin The concept of the unconscious, the creation of the analytic technique of free association, and the development of a specific form of doctor-patient […]
April 1, 1940
A London Letter: The Wartime Literary Situation
THE WARTIME LITERARY SITUATION 31st December, 1939 This morning the Sunday Express says that on the 1st January, 1940, a Proclamation will be issued calling up for military service all […]
January 1, 1940
Henry Adams: Three Late Moments
1. Richard’s Prison Song When Henry Adams left South Lincoln, Massachusetts, for Washington in the late fall of 1912, he had recovered as much as he was likely to do […]
January 1, 1940
Music Chronicle: The Musicological Congress
THE MUSICOLOGICAL CONGRESS To the query, What is a “musicologist”?, composers and performers of music have tended to reply: “Someone or everyone whose life suddenly and unaccountably has become ‘modal.’ […]
January 1, 1940
The Changing Ethos of Contemporary Music
The composer of today is much closer to the wide audience of generally cultured musical people than he was ten or fifteen years ago. The fact is curious and significant: […]
January 1, 1940
Obscurity and Dylan Thomas
A good poem may be obscure in two ways: it may express an obscure thought or idea (a thought or idea “difficult,” from one reason or another, for most readers) […]
January 1, 1940
Andre Malraux: The Return of the Hero
The hero is born of the belief in the possibility of man’s greatness. Both in life and in fiction his role is a social one: the championing of an ascendant […]
January 1, 1940
Emily’s Prose: A Note
These are random reactions to some of Miss Dickinson’s letters. I shall try to confine myself to discussing her style, though everything in her is so closely bound together, her […]
January 1, 1940
The Pragmatics of Art
Mr. Morris, the author of a semantic system, though we may suppose that his interest was originally in the language of scientific discourse, was also clearly destined to offer a […]