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
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
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 […]