April 1, 1949
Errata: A Legend of Viable Women
In Richard Eberhart’s poem in the Winter issue, the word perceived on page 84, fifth line from bottom, should read percepted. The stanza should read: There was a nun of […]
April 1, 1949
Gide’s Cubist Novel
The painter Fromentin once complained to the Goncourts that because the arts had become unheroic he could undertake no “big subjects.” For their part the Goncourts were content to put […]
April 1, 1949
Communications
SIRS: I am preparing a biography of Alfred Stieglitz—American photographer and pioneer in introducing modern art to this country—and I am desirous of collecting letters from him, as well as […]
April 1, 1949
The Merging Parallels: Mann’s “Doctor Faustus”
On the first reading, Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus1 is a strange, difficult and forbidding novel. Mann himself has called it his wildestes, his most savage, book. He has also said […]
January 1, 1949
For a Second Look
I should like to begin by asking you to re-read Mr. Tate’s first paragraph, which I have been privileged to see, partly because what is said there is just to […]
January 1, 1949
The Places and the Figures
With a tradition we incur its wars along with the rest and one measure of our participation may be our readiness to suspect. Even a harmless looking academic sentence may […]
January 1, 1949
A Note on Autotelism
Without The Kenyon Review in the past ten years I doubt that we should have the New Criticism; for it was Mr. Ransom who created its myth by giving it […]
January 1, 1949
New vs. Ordealist
If Mr. Ransom is right in saying that just now the New Criticism is being underestimated or sold short, it is time to see that this may be caused by […]
January 1, 1949
Melville’s Confidence Man
If any one work of Melville’s has been misunderstood and neglected more than the others, it is The Confidence Man (1857). Usually considered a work of chaotic pessimism, it is […]
January 1, 1949
Movie Letter: Experimental Film: A New Growth
Like the traditional idea of the cultural Bohemia, and a little like Greenwich Village itself, the idea of Experimental Film, at least till lately, has been scorned from the heights […]
January 1, 1949
Hemingway and James
By way of introducing these remarks on the value of In Our Time I want to make a broad and somewhat crude observation which I hope will fix the reader’s […]
January 1, 1949
A Present Tendency in American Criticism
Somebody with the necessary scholarship may be able some day to tell us just when, during the two decades past, American criticism began to seek what looks like a new […]