Category: Criticism

Valéry: The Dance of Words

Oedipus: The Religious Issue

Pinter’s Homecoming: The Shock of Nonrecognition

Poetry Modern and Unmodern

Toward the Quintessential Burke

Vastations of Will

The New Gods

The Cult of Sincerity

The Naiveté of Verdi

Abuse of Privilege: Lowell as Translator

Italo Svevo and Ripe Old Age

The Blakean Intellect

A Meaning of Robert Lowell

The Evil Demiurge

Down Among the Phenomena

The Case for Plot in Modern Drama

The Snares of Wisdom

The Delinquent Aesthetic

The Achievement of William Empson

The Radicalism of Lady Chatterley’s Lover

The Criticism of B. H. Haggin

Coriolanus—and the Delights of Faction

A Note on Hardy’s Stories

Kenneth Burke’s Desdemona

The Value of Art in an Expanding World

An Epic of Immobility

On the Methods and Ambitions of Poetry

Love in Ovid and Lucretius

The House of Yeats

Rationalism and the Discursive Style

The Ambiguity of Fame

Mary Barnard’s Sappho

Detective Fiction: A Modern Myth of Violence?

Dirty Words?

Shakespeare: The Anniversary Year in Retrospect

Isak Dinesen

The Stream of Conscience as a Form in Fiction

Mailer and Styron: Guests of the Establishment

England’s Parnassus: C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams and J. R. R. Tolkien

A Portrait of Civilized Man

The Lion Hunt

On Form

Definition of Man

Colette, Claudine, and Willy

Reflections on Religion

The Choreography of the New Novel

Notes on Italian Literature, 1960-63

The End of the Renaissance?

A Defense of Fiction

Bruno’s Last Meal in Finnegan’s Wake