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… Biography. By Virginia Woolf. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $3.00. Point Counter Point. By Aldous Huxley. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company. $2.50. An air of strangeness declares the kinship … to mention a childhood grounding in “Alice in Wonderland.” Also an acquaintance with Strachey’s “Queen Victoria” and …

… peasant who suffers a humiliation and defeat that then becomes an exaltation and triumph. In a world where the … He is the much-lauded author of three books of poetry and also a collection of critical and personal essays, two … who have informed Wiman’s wide vista—Patrick Kavanagh, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Herbert, Hopkins, and Hill. Wiman’s own …

… 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 …

… it’s prudent to bet on falling short. That is: you will die, and if your works are any good, and thereby profitable … regarding their literary estates, and the two most common mistakes seem to be: 1) no will (or a legally dubious … which have been spectacularly popular, posthumously, died at age 50. ( One friend claims that his last words …

… but as, unhesitatingly, the greatest. For a novel that was completed very early in the llth century, this evaluation is … certainly rank at or near the top. Most of us who have come to know and appreciate the literature of Japan cut our … few, terse, and to the point. A vastly more sophisticated audience, then, greets the publication of this two-volume …