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… under Louis Philippe, “King of the French,” Anatole France died in 1924 when Raymond Poincare was premier. The man who … he supported militarism. Then came the red scare of the Commune. France, the Communist of a great many years later, … before we meet Jerome Coignard and M. Bergeret. France was also a poet in the Parnassian brotherhood, a worshiper of …
Poetry
An Engine That Won’t The town, my dear, is closing down: dead- Bolts slipping into their sleeves, cicadas insisting Like so many typewriters, drunk girls sleeping In their shoes. Without you, the house begs For disaster, love: extension cord nest, …
… when he set down, casting off reticence with an uncommon boldness for him, a reminiscence of Enfield, where, … voluptuous monster, “into which the soul with all its maladies had passed;” and his predilection was for the sensuous … soul has associated its interests, can have, as Pater points out, “no real claim upon us.” The address of this …
… to maintain its supremacy in world politics and world commerce against the powerful onslaught of a rejuvenated … representatives, made the declaration of hostilities. Soldiers from India have been sent to Aden, Egypt, Singapore, … of India Act of 1935, dispatched Indian troops to points of international tension. The All-India National …
Talisman
… daybooks rarely. But lately I have been perusing the annals of high school and college. I’m mortified! Most people … with my current reading. June 5, 1961 Jerry Lewis, “Ladies Man” Sartre, “Age of Reason” July 14, 1961 “The … hill, was about to mess. After he done that he was ready to come back home. It wasn’t very windy but would cut you to …
Essays
… upbraids the region for one fault or another. That sense of complicity and engagement makes the essays humane and modest, passionate and conflicted. It also keeps them compelling after all these years, long after … the first important essay on the South for the Review embodied much of what would follow. Gerald W. Johnson served as …