Category: Criticism

Problems for the Modern Critic of Literature

The Laughter of Laurence Sterne

Feminism Reconsidered

Symbol and Association

The Language of Aesthetics

The Well-Filled Dish: An Analysis of Swift’s Satire

The Name of Odysseus

Whom Seek Ye? A Note on Robert Lowell’s Poetry

Lawrence and the Demon of the Absolute

Turgenev: the Virtues of Hesitation

Metaphor in The Divine Comedy

Genji and the Age of Marvels

The Technique of Japanese Poetry

Truth and Falsity in the Novel

Greek Myths and Pseudo Myths

The Cosmic Trilogy of C. S. Lewis

Taste and Bad Taste in Metaphysical Poetry

Peasant Poet

Poetry of the Sung Dynasty

The Last Augustan

Leyda’s Melville

The World of George Santayana

San Francisco and Her Hateful Ambrose Bierce

Conrad and the Terms of Modern Criticism

Discoveries in Greek Mythology

The Poetry of Jorge Guillén

Myth as Information

Faulkner as Elegist

The Lesson of Balzac’s Stupidity

Finnegans Wake and the Girls from Boston, Mass

End of a Poem

Art as Insurrection

The Revenge of the Void

On Reading Dante Whole

The Albertine Strategy

Beddoes: The Mask of Parody

Women in Love and Death

The True Voice of John Keats

A Note on the Metaphysicals

Shakespeare at Thirty

The Critical Intimidation

A Reading of the Sonnets

Joyce’s “Exiles”

The Word Was His Oyster

Fictitious Americans

The Atlantic Unites

Jungian Mythology

English Literary Magazines

Traduttore—Traditore

The Unity of Billy Budd