July 1, 1939
The Calling of the Tune
The complete autonomy of art could but mean its dissociation from other aspects of the social collectivity. Complete freedom to develop one’s means of communication ends as an impairment of […]
April 1, 1939
The Advance of American Music
[This essay is a sequel to “The Advent of American Music” by Mr. Rosenfeld in the Winter number.] The promise of music of high quality in the style of American […]
April 1, 1939
The Arts and the Philosophers
Clearyly the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science is to be a philosophical enterprise, not a scientific one: scientia scientiarum. The editor of a literary journal follows it principally with this […]
April 1, 1939
The New Encyclopedists: A Symposium
I. ProBy Eliseo Vivas The history of modern philosophy may be envisaged from many points of view. One of these conceives of its development as an effort to mediate between […]
April 1, 1939
Disorder
The terms “classical” and “romantic” belong to the degenerate tribe of literary historians and there is little wish to deprive them of their possessions. Irving Babbitt and T. E. Hulme […]
April 1, 1939
Federico Garcia Lorca
In 1936 Lorca was dragged through the streets of Granada to face the Fascist firing squad. The reasons were not obvious. He was not active in Leftist circles; but he […]
April 1, 1939
New Forces in American Art
If society were suddenly empowered to establish arbitrarily its own conception of the perfect conditions for the encouragement and production of art, it might easily end by killing art. […]
January 1, 1939
The Two Audens
Auden moves fast, like a good boxer. His subject, his opponent, present-day England, is moving fast also. Perhaps the fate of the poet is bound up with the fate of […]
January 1, 1939
Franz Kafka: The Hero as Lonely Man
With the recent publication in German of Max Brod’s biography of Franz Kafka, it has at last become possible to approach the author of The Trial and The Castle from […]
January 1, 1939
The Teaching of Poetry
Editorial Notes One of the pleasantries of Renaissance poets was to assert that verse is immortal. One of the modern evidences is certainly this, that the good verse in English […]
January 1, 1939
Was Shakespeare a Philosopher?
Mr. W. C. Curry’s book, Shakespeare’s Philosophical Patterns,1 does not seem to have received yet the study it deserves, but there is plenty of time. It is a bold and […]
January 1, 1939
The Advent of American Music
A fresh unprecedented representative of American culture appeared some thirty-odd years ago. It was music of high quality by an American. Its manipulation of the medium was intrinsically interesting and […]