October 1, 1965
The Perspective of Time
The Discovery of Time by Stephen Toulmin and June Goodfield. Harper and Row, $6.95. The authors describe this book as a “history of history.” It is a discussion […]
October 1, 1965
Quintet from the ’30s: Anthony Powell
In the late summer of 1963 Anthony Powell was in an enviable position. The six volumes that made up the first half of The Music of Time were in the […]
October 1, 1965
Piero Di Cosimo
“The nations have come to the birth but there was no strength to bring forth.” Your eggs are addled, that brown hen With orange in her comb, your broody […]
October 1, 1965
The Tangibles of Craftsmanship
The Poet and His Craft: Selected Prose of Theodore Roethke. Edited by Ralph J. Mills, Jr. University of Washington Press, $3.95. I remember Roethke’s Hopwood lecture at The University of […]
October 1, 1965
The Archaic World of Feeling
Living with Ballads by Willa Muir. Oxford University Press, $5.75. Mrs. Muir’s Living with Ballads begins delightfully with “Children’s Singing Games” in her native small town on the northeast coast […]
October 1, 1965
A Retreat before the War: Camden, Maine, 1942
Outdone, the town surrendered Hines to plain Insanity, recalling every wild Excess of his invention, and the vein Of stubborn folly in the barn he built That never stalled a […]
October 1, 1965
Wonderland Revisited
In the twentieth century’s commemoration of the nineteenth, we have reached the centennial of Alice. Not uncharacteristically, the date has been somewhat blurred. The author, whose fussiness has endeared him […]
October 1, 1965
On the Island
After dinner the Driscolls sat for awhile with Mr. Soo, by the big windows looking out and down over the bay. There was nothing to close: they were just great […]
October 1, 1965
Suburban Storm
Birds look down Out of clean roofs. This dull town Has a big clock. I count the steps From trim shops To neat trees, To ponds, tea trays. Clouds open […]
October 1, 1965
Home from the Cemetery
I Pennies glitter where his eyes should be. I stand suddenly, trembling wet, before him. Rising from his back, he plucks the pennies away And reads to me from a […]
October 1, 1965
Victory
Granny Hill—no kin of course—said only sayings: “Bad luck to drop your comb! . . . Windstorms come west. . . Bad luck to plant a cedar . . . […]
July 1, 1965
The Motorcycle
The Motorcycle by André Pieyre de Mandiargues. Translated by Richard Howard. Grove Press, $3.95. In these days of often exacerbated eroticism in fiction, it may not seem a very promising […]