… the tangled skein of accusations and confessions in that community, a task so brilliantly essayed, for example, by … biography, psychology, sociology, and history—the “four points of one scholar’s compass,” as he puts it—and in each … simply with hysteria; for by studying witchcraft as one studies infant mortality rates or patterns of land distribution …
… Henry Taylor’s Persuasive Praise Compulsory Figures: Essays on Recent American Poets. By … Taylor often displays his “sharp eye” (and ear), but he also proves himself to be the kind of sensitive and … be without regret And shall mortality forget, When I shall die who lived for this, I shall not miss the things I miss. …
Poetry
… picture of Gordon, the infamous formerly enslaved Union soldier with the scourged back trashed with vicious scars in … galvanizing power of the mutilated Black body. Does horror compel us more than beauty? A picture of Gordon’s back … of red that seeped from the edge of the brush.” Her work also hangs in the Tate with a piece titled Esirn Coaler on …
… published in 1952, was lauded by historian Henry Steele Commager at the time of its publication as “the best book … of this book has just been published by Nebraska [$12.95]. Also available as a Nebraska paperback is George R. … her life was tragically short—she was only 34 when she died of tuberculosis in France on Jan.8, 1923—Katherine …
Essays
… An Impression of John Galsworthy The German public which has given to “The Forsyte … of a German painter, had taken us into her home. She has died since then but her fragile distinction still moves me … describe him, if it were more spiritual. One very soon becomes sure in intercourse with this man, of what one really …
Fiction
… where she’d heard from reliable sources that the church ladies were holding a bazaar, or sometimes out into the … and Salvation Army stores were located near Greyhound terminals and railroad stations. I wondered about the connection: … people she had to bargain with, people to be cajoled into becoming allies, who could be enlisted to keep an eye out for …