Category: Criticism

A Bouquet of Heads

The Contemplative Life According to Samuel Beckett

The Little Red Discount House

T. E. Lawrence: The Problem of Heroism

Seven Paragraphs of Antonio Machado

Shakespearean Tragedy and Psychoanalytic Criticism

How to Write a College Novel

Shades of Keats and Marvell

American Bards and Liberal Reviewers

William Carlos Williams

Poetry and the Behaviour of Speech

In the Scene of Being

André Malraux: The Image of Man

Having it Both Ways in All the King’s Men

Pope and His Church

The Rape of the Lock

Marvell and the Poetry of Judgment

Crime for Punishment: The Tenor of Part One

The Satan of Milton

Kafka and the Primacy of the Ethical

Makers and Persons

Hobbling with Horatio, or the Uses of Literature

Toward an American Epic

Getting Away from the Chickens

Fiction of the Fifties

The Romanticism of the New Criticism

The House of Pain: Emerson and the Tragic Sense

Time, Distance, and Form in Proust

The Originality of Conrad

Two Esays: The Handle, and The Ruin

Yeats and Tragedy

Henry James and “Life”

Lawrence’s Rocking Horse

Lawrence’s Short Novels

Métilde: or a Lesson in Logic

The Poetic Motive

Notes on Recent Russian Literature

On the Continuity of American Poetry

The Purity and Cunning of Sherwood Anderson

Shakespeare’s Rituals

The Realistic Oriole: A Study of Wallace Stevens

The Cage and the Prairie: Two Notes on Symbolism

Henrik Ibsen: The Fifty-First Anniversary

Wyndham Lewis: The Massacre and the Innocents

The Nature of the Novel

Chaucer’s Nightingales

The Great Grasp of Unreason

Justice to Pamela

The New Upper-Middle Soap Opera

New Lines in English Poetry