Fall 1985
Table of Contents
Special Feature
The Future of Liberal Arts: A Humanist’s View
The Future of Liberal Arts: Scientist’s View
Essays
American Theater Watch, 1984–1985
Not-Knowing
Samuel Johnson Among the Deconstructionists
Stasis, Story, and Anti-Story
Fiction
A Teller’s Tale
Paper Products
Something Good for Ginnie
Poetry
250 Bradford
Chinese Architecture & The Subject Is “You Understood”
Elegance & Transitive
Everyday Places
Groundwork; The Fashion Designer; & The Art of Starving
In the Old-Age Home Where He Says He’s Resting
Moon, Razor, Eye
Morpho
Mother Eve
Old Man, Walking
Prayer
Ruby Tells All
Saint’s Life
Skywriters & Zimmer Closes His Family Home
Sunbathing
Reviews
Critical Formalities (on The Formal Principle in the Novel by Austin M. Wright & Forms of Life: Character and Moral Imagination in the Novel by Martin Price)
Malcolm Cowley and the Rehumanization of Art (on The Early Career of Malcolm Cowley: A Humanist Among the Moderns by James Michael Kempf & The Flower and the Leaf: A Contemporary Record of American Writing Since 1941 by Malcolm Cowley and Donald W. Faulkner)
on New & Selected Essays by Howard Nemerov
on Revolution and Convention in Modern Poetry: Studies in Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Edwin Arlington Robinson and Yvor Winters by Donald E. Stanford
on Sermons and Homilies of the Christ of Elqui by Nicanor Parra and Sandra Reyes
on The Re-Creation of Landscape: A Study of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Constable, and Turner by James A. W. Heffernan
on The Trouble With America by Michel Crozier and Peter Heinegg
on The Writer and Human Rights by Toronto Arts Group for Human Rights
Tradition and the Innovative Godzilla (on Collected Poems: 1957-1982 by Wendell Berry; The Salt Stone: Selected Poems by John Woods; Selected Poems: 1950-1982 by Kenneth Koch; The Collected Poems Of Robert Creeley: 1945-1975; & New and Selected Poems: 1923-1985 by Robert Penn Warren)
Waking the Long Memory (on The Prophetic Poet and the Spirit of the Age (in three volumes). Volume One: Why Flannery O’Connor Stayed Home. Volume Two: Why Poe Drank Liquor. Volume Three: Why Hawthorne Was Melancholy by Marion Montgomery)
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