Spring 1978
Table of Contents
Essays
‘Tis A Pretty Book, Mr. Boswell, But
“excerpts from” The Notes
A Metaphysic of Painting: The Notes of Andre Derain
Last Hope, or Hopeful at Last? Recent Views of the American South
Phoenix on Turtle Island: D. H. Lawrence in Henry Adams’ America
Robert Lowell and the Literature Industry
Secular Vision, Transcendental Style: The Art of Yasujiro Ozu
Fiction
Some Manhattan in New England
The Tale of Silky the Simile-Maker and Rhuan the Resilient
Poetry
Climbing Alone
Everything
I Decide Not to Have Children & Other Women’s Children
Plague Sermon
Preparing for the Takeover & The Psychiatrist Seeking Salvation
Proof & Cold Snap
The Blind & The Scent of Apples
Zimmer to His Students
Reviews
The Literature of Memory: Modern Writers of the American South by Richard Gray
on Keeping the Night by Peter Everwine; Bad Boats by Laura Jensen; Stars by C. G. Hanzlicek; Comforting the Wilderness by Robert B. Shaw; & Lucky Life by Gerald Stern
on Four Postwar American Novelists by Frank D. McConnell
on Oglethorpe in America by Phinizy Spalding
on Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing by Richard Poirier
on Samuel Johnson: Political Writings by Donald J. Greene
on Samuel Johnson by W. Jackson Bate
on The Caricatures of George Cruikshank by John Wardroper
on The Montecassino Passion and the Poetics of Medieval Drama by Robert R. Edwards
on The Regionalists: Painters of the American Scene by Nancy Heller, Julia Williams
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