… this objection occupies space. Look at its lavender-blue petals, its rose-bordered Ferns, the cut stems of its yellow …
Essays
… a gold maple leaf—Munro politely declined. She didn’t feel comfortable, she said, with awards that celebrated … herself was born in 1931. Munro has claimed, at various points in her career, that her fictional towns—Walley, … ill grace made her endless cups of tea.” Robert’s mother, Sadie Laidlaw, moved to Wingham with her sister to offer a …
Essays
… whole of historical actuality. I do not know if I have accomplished this well, but I know that the figure of my hero … it in Moscow. I heard it forty years ago. It was originally composed by shop assistants, and then it was taken up by … of Babel (i. e. the future kingdom of socialism) and the com pletest overthrow of freedom of conscience—that is what …
… against the Wind. By Helen Hull Jacobs. Doclcl, Mead and Company. $2.75. The Seas Stand Watch. By Helen Parker … is too limited: they would disregard the fact that he must also be a novelist, that he must create convincing … the sixth has only a limited success. Most of them have studied too much Americana and not enough Scott and Thackeray. …
Criticism
… Through the accident that very few scientists can write competently, a scientific style has evolved that is pompous, … Through another accident that space in scientific journals is at a premium, wrong turns, interesting mistakes, the birth of insight, are all excluded and only a falsely straight path to the goal is described. To anyone who …
… Poems of William Butler Yeats. New York: The Macmillan Company. $3.50. Poems, 1924-1933. By Archibald MacLeish. … only the whole body of a man’s work that can so stir his audience, and, however Yeats may surprise us in his old age, … where, like Yeats, he traffics in Indian philosophy and medieval magic, it is not astonishing that the modern mind …