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… Poetry. By Joseph Warren Beach. New York: The Macmillan Company. $5.00. The Decline and Pall of the Romantic Ideal. … exciting syntheses which appear in this book. For it deals, as the publishers truly state, with “one of the bravest … of faith to agnosticism or comparative unbelief, “from medieval Christian faith to the scientific positivism which …

… a World. By Wallace Stevens. Alfred A. Knopf. $2.00. Have Come, Am Here. By Jose Garcia Villa. The Viking Press. … and I should be surprised to learn that either poet ever studied the other’s poems. Though their fundamental attitudes … For his soliloquizers are not people, but philosophical points of view—or impulsions toward these. They do not talk; …

… Like with much of Atxaga’s work, the writer originally composed the novel in Euskara, translated it himself into … takes us along into worlds seemingly like our own but also strange and tantalizing, filled with suspense, humor, … forgiven, or even praised? Why, for example, is it OK for Zadie Smith to fashion her novel “On Beauty” after E.M. …

… possesses subtler kinds of value. Bertrand Russell recommended it; others have also discovered its charms. But in … to the urgency of her need and the cleverness of her expedients. In both autobiographies, then, boredom provides a … of moral and psychological danger. Constituting, from some points of view, sin as well as suffering, boredom may …

… as they stake out positions in the field of American studies. In some books Miller hovers behind and within the … present almost like a muse, as if scholars were unable to compose a single sentence without acknowledging that it is … one is reading 700 pages, this makes a lot of difference. 526-532 By Philip F. Gura …