April 1, 1939
The Mystic as Historian
Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man. By Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy. William Morrow and Co. $6.00 Scientific anthropology can apparently find little concrete evidence in support of the belief in inherited […]
April 1, 1939
The Interrupted Concert
From the Spanish. The sleepy frozen caldronOf the half moonBroke the harmonyOf the deep night. The ditches, musty with sedge,Protest in silence,And the frogs, muezzins of shadow,Keep very still. […]
April 1, 1939
The Poet and Her Biographer
This Was a Poet: A Critical Biography of Emily Dickinson by George Frisbee Whicher. Charles Scribner’s Sons. $3.00 It had better be said at once that Mr. Whicher is not […]
April 1, 1939
Walking Asleep
From the Spanish. Green as I would have you be,Green wind. Green boughs.The boat on the sea,And the horse on the mountain.With shadow at her waist,She dreams at the […]
April 1, 1939
The Advance of American Music
[This essay is a sequel to “The Advent of American Music” by Mr. Rosenfeld in the Winter number.] The promise of music of high quality in the style of American […]
April 1, 1939
The Arts and the Philosophers
Clearyly the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science is to be a philosophical enterprise, not a scientific one: scientia scientiarum. The editor of a literary journal follows it principally with this […]
April 1, 1939
The New Encyclopedists: A Symposium
I. ProBy Eliseo Vivas The history of modern philosophy may be envisaged from many points of view. One of these conceives of its development as an effort to mediate between […]
April 1, 1939
Arnold vs. The 19th Century
Matthew Arnold. By Lionel Trilling. W. W. Norton. $3.50 This presentation of Matthew Arnold gives us an admirable book, well written, thoughtful, and dispassionate. It is not, properly, a biography, […]
April 1, 1939
Music of a Mind
New Writing: Fall, 1938. Edited by John Lehmann. Knopf. $2.75 In Dreams Begin Responsibilities. By Delmore Schwartz. New Directions. $2.50 A sentence in Mr. Lehmann’s volume might suggest to the […]
April 1, 1939
Disorder
The terms “classical” and “romantic” belong to the degenerate tribe of literary historians and there is little wish to deprive them of their possessions. Irving Babbitt and T. E. Hulme […]
April 1, 1939
Two Party Poets
Dead Reckoning: A Book of Poetry. By Kenneth Fearing. Random House. $1.25Collected Poems: 1918-1938. By Genevieve Taggard. Harper & Brothers. $2.50 Politics yokes diverse talents. Miss Taggard and Mr. Fearing […]
April 1, 1939
Federico Garcia Lorca
In 1936 Lorca was dragged through the streets of Granada to face the Fascist firing squad. The reasons were not obvious. He was not active in Leftist circles; but he […]