Month: April 2017

The Old Trip by Dream Train

By Brendan Galvin
From the Spring 1979 Issue
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Brendan Galvin is the author of sixteen poetry collections, most recently Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965–2005 (2005), a finalist for the National Book Award; Ocean Effects (2007); and Whirl Is King (2008)—all from Louisiana State University Press. His translation of Sophocles’ Women of Trachis appeared in the Penn Greek Drama Series (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998).

And the World Became Strange: Realms of Literary Fantasy

By George P. Landow
From the Spring 1979 Issue
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on Life Among Others by Daniel Halpern; The Late Hour by Mark Strand; Kicking the Leaves by Donald Hall; Tread the Dark by David Ignatow; & The Year of Our Birth by Sandra McPherson

By Peter Stitt
From the Summer 1979 Issue
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on Speaking of Stendhal by Storm Jameson

By Charles R. Anderson
From the Summer 1979 Issue
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on F. R. Leavis: Judgment and the Discipline of Thought by Robert Boyers

By William E. Cain
From the Summer 1979 Issue
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on America’s Great Illustrators by Susan E. Meyer

By Gerald Weales
From the Summer 1979 Issue
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Gerald Weales’s “American Theater Watch” appeared in these pages from 1978 until 2010, and we have also featured on occasion his essays and reviews on topics that have included World War II and the early-career political cartoons of one Theodore Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss). In addition to his distinguished career as an author and drama specialist, Weales was a longtime professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he retired in 1987; a senior Fulbright scholar at the University of Sri Lanka; and the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship.

Shields, Ruins, and Togus: Old Literary History (on Dr. Woodward’s Shield: History, Science and Satire in Augustan England by Joseph M. Levine; Ruins and Empire: The Evolution of a Theme in Augustan and Romantic Literature by Laurence Goldstein; & Augustus Caesar in “augustan” England: The Decline of a Classical Norm by Howard D. Weinbrot)

By Edward Tomarken
From the Summer 1979 Issue
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Refelections on John Fowles’s “The Magus” and the Construction of Reality (on The Magus: A Revised Version by John Fowles)

By Ernst von Glasersfeld
From the Summer 1979 Issue
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Charles Olsen and His Forces (on A Guide to the Maximus Poems of Charles Olson by George F. Butterick; Charles Olson: Call Him Ishmael by Paul Christensen; Olson’s Push: Origin, Black Mountain and Recent American Poetry by Sherman Paul; &Charles Olson: The Scholar’s Art by Robert von Hallberg)

By Charles Molesworth
From the Summer 1979 Issue
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