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… as the revelatory Uncollected Poems ; in so doing, he has become Rilke’s best and most important ambassador to American … Emerson’s “transparent eyeball,” taking everything in, but also like the statues of Rilke’s mentor Rodin, which seem to … hopes to reveal in his poems. In Snow’s hands, Rilke becomes clear as glass—as if the poems could be windows …

… really wasn’t news. We have known that since the brave soldiers of General Lee’s army hopelessly shuffled home with … the historical reason, make necessary contemporary comparisons, and do something about it. The past, present, … — lawyers, business men, doctors, clergymen, public officials—either consciously or unconsciously serve the Lords of …

… I always felt very lucky—​and they did, too—​that they had come here. When I was growing up, Jackson had much more of … made me feel that I was in touch with something. My father died young, and my mother always encouraged me to write. She … You know, the South is a big place. As Reynolds Price points out, it is as big as France. And we do not live in …

… how she speaks. In her down-to-earth manner, she presents complex ideas in concrete, understandable ways. And in the … And you don’t know what you’re doing until either someone points it out, or you see it yourself. LDA: As a parent, I’m … not another copy but a fresh attempt made in its own full-bodied right and out of its own impulse, with its own pressure …

… Harvard University Press. $3.50. Three books have recently come out on the fall of French democracy. These books, … it, to use not only the arguments that Mr. Guerard uses but also the testimonies of Genevieve Tabouis and … if it has required the “collaboration” of German soldiers and French Fascists to crush its institutions, this is …