July 1, 1965
Collage
Collage Taken Care Of: An Autobiography by Edith Sitwell. Atheneum Publishers, $5.95. We do not regret that most of the very greatest writers did not leave behind them extensive autobiographies, […]
July 1, 1965
Tea and Astringency
Cinema Eye, Cinema Ear by John Russell Taylor. Hill and Wang, $5.95. I Lost It At the Movies by Pauline Kael. Atlantic-Little, Brown, $6.00. The two books in question comprise […]
July 1, 1965
One Day
One Day by Wright Morris. Atheneum Publishers, $5.95. One day in November, after a brief, chaotic career as a civil-rights demonstrator, a young rebel returns to Escondido, California, to deposit […]
July 1, 1965
After the Wedding Anniversary
After The Wedding Anniversary by Bettina Linn. A. S. Barnes, $4.95. A family goes abroad for five years in the 1930s for reasons of money and pride, and returns, in […]
July 1, 1965
Mosaic
Arnold Schoenberg: Letters, selected and edited by Erwin Stein. Translated from the original German by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser. St. Martin’s Press, $8.75. He became a Jew loyal […]
July 1, 1965
The Convert and the Heretic
Love and Revolution: My Journey Through an Epoch by Max Eastman. Random House, $8.95. William James begins his chapter on conversion in The Varieties of Religious Experience by remarking that […]
July 1, 1965
Ballad of the Milltown Bar
For Richard Hugo The moose stares down at the bear. The bear stares down at his beer. The dying will steal your breath with a loving kiss and […]
July 1, 1965
A Tremendous Drama
The Letters Of Charles Dickens. The Pilgrim Edition. Volume I, 1820-1839. Edited by Madeline House and Graham Storey. Oxford University Press, $20.20. It should be stated at the outset that […]
July 1, 1965
R. P. B. Winter
Chrysostom in his age consults his map. His beating mind convulves and comes half-stopped, Mistaking signs of shaken elegance For fearful loss of mind’s articulation, That splendid, brilliant turning of […]
July 1, 1965
Die Stimme
For years I hardly spoke above a whisper. When the assembled clan pounded the table, Quarreling about money or manners, my teeth Punched stars and crescents in their transfers. But […]
July 1, 1965
England, 1920: The Auden Circle
To those young men in the shadow of machines Steel more exciting than cathedrals loomed; Battersea’s four gaunt towers in their dreams fumed And overhead screaked the black dock crane […]
July 1, 1965
Of Heaven as Production Number
Perspective false and canvas full of tears, The painted backdrop terminates real stairs; And toward that point at which they vanish, paint Or hole, an act of faith impels, not […]