January 1, 1989
Notes on a Democratic Philosophy
From the Autumn 1942 issue. We hear frequently these days that if democracy is to survive it must have a new faith; that battles are not won by tanks and […]
January 1, 1989
War and Publication
From the Spring 1942 issue. The announcement in the Southern Review’s winter issue of the suspension of that quarterly need not be mentioned in the same breath with Pearl Harbor, […]
January 1, 1989
The Nazis Purge Philosophy
From the Summer 1941 issue. 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 […]
January 1, 1989
Art and Science
From the Winter 1988 issue. Art and science are alike in having for their province the whole of experience, their ultimate motive being to rearrange, integrate and interpret it to […]
January 1, 1989
Introduction: Special Anniversary Feature: Excerpts from the War Years
When we decided to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of The Kenyon Review—founded by John Crowe Ransom and first appearing in Winter, 1939—by republishing a selection of pieces from the early […]
January 1, 1989
The American Culture: Studies in Definition and Prophecy
From the Spring 1941 issue. I. The Polity By Rushton Coulborn To divine the future of a people it is necessary to probe its past, for only in the acts […]
January 1, 1989
The Analogical Mirrors
From the Summer 1944 issue. 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 […]
January 1, 1989
Artists, Soldiers, Positivists
From the Spring 1944 issue. Remembering our Winter discussion, I return to those great difficulties which disturb Mr. Ames, or any other man interested in art’s good name. Let us […]
January 1, 1989
Death of a Thinker: A Note on the French Novel 1925-40
From the Summer 1941 issue. 1. I Am Alone In August, 1925, in the village of Hillion on the North coast of Brittany, a man named Georges Palante shot himself […]
January 1, 1989
Instress of Inscape
From the Summer 1944 issue. The early Hopkins follows Keats and the “medieval school” (as he called the Pre-Raphaelites). The latest Hopkins, who wrote the sonnets of desolation, was a […]
January 1, 1989
Literature and Power
From the Autumn 1940 issue. Sometimes we of the English-teaching profession must wonder whether our social function is anything more than pious—whether we are expected to do more than perform […]
January 1, 1989
Muses and Amazons
From the Spring 1941 issue. We welcome Decision, the monthly “review of free culture” that was launched with a good deal of ceremony in January from New York. Its editor, […]