Category: Criticism

The Pilgrim on the Threshold of Purgation

Poe’s Imaginary Voyage

Mother Goose’s Lost Goslings

To Whom is the Poet Responsible?

A Poem by St.-John Perse

The Audible Reading of Poetry

The “New Philosophy of Language” in England

Othello: An Essay to Illustrate a Method

A Note on Leconte de Lisle

Romanticism and Reality in Robert Penn Warren

Jung at Mid-Century

Little Magazines in Paris

The Language of Myth

The Triumph of Evil in Pascal

The Lion and the Honeycomb

The Temple of Memory: Péguy

The Poetry of Dylan Thomas

English Verse Drama II: The Cocktail Party

English Verse Drama I: Christopher Fry

The Primary Illusions and the Great Orders of Art

The Rose in the Steel Dust

The Principles of Creation in Art

Literature

Wit in the Essay on Criticism

The Four Forms of Prose Fiction

From Poe to Valéry

The Kingdom of Our Language

Eliot’s Moral Dialectic

Bloomsbury and the Academics

Hamlet: The Analogy of Action

The Life of Our Design

Joseph Conrad: Outline for a Reconsideration

Reaction a Progress: or, The Devil’s Domain

The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins II

The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins I

Baker Street to Eccles Street

Partisan Review and American Writing

Notes on the Joseph Novels

Hans Castorp, Small Lord of Counterpositions

Longinus

Troilus and Cressida and Plato

Ernest Hemingway

The Imagery of Killing

A Burden for Critics

Action as Rational: Racine’s Bérénice

Reflections on Style

Notes on Faulkner and Flaubert

In the Birdcage

The Present Situation of Art in Europe

Technique as Discovery