Puzzles and Epiphanies: Essays and Reviews 1958-1961 by Frank Kermode. Chilmark Press, $4.95.
Granted his intelligence, his devotion, and his enormous industriousness, Mr. Kermode’s great usefulness consists in the fact that he has had important critical mentors, a generation of them, from whom he has emancipated himself. He has been educated, apparently, by Richards, Cassirer, Mrs. Langer, among others, the various academies of the New Critics generally, and by Eliot in particular, and he has claimed his independence simply by an act of scholarship, by putting them in their place.
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