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Autumn 1948 • Vol. X No. 4 • Book Reviews |

The New Criticism

By John Crowe Ransom

The Armed Vision by Stanley Edgar Hyman, Knopf, $5.00.

The Hudson Review, Summer 1948, containing “A Burden for Critics” by R. P. Blackmur, and “The Imagery of Killing” by Kenneth Burke, $1.00.

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By John Crowe Ransom

Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty. Harcourt, Brace. $2.75.Miss Welty’s stature as an artist increases continually. We knew her last as the author of “The Wide Net” and its companion short […]

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