...Florian Gargaillo Abstract In a review of T. S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral , Stevie Smith lamented that “so many writers of these times, which need courage and the power of criticism, and coolness, should find their chief delight in terrifying themselves and their readers with past echoes...

... of one of Stevie Smith’s sequences tells, a “Voice from the Tomb” suggests a continuing fascination with being in that halfway house between time and timelessness. Not beyond the tomb, but in it, this voice too claims to be “I,” with difficulty and from a distance. An utterly minimalist poem...

... is mostly phenomenological, heeding form and meaning to share with readers some excitement about what happens in the chosen poems. In “Your Thorns Are the Best Part of You,” a study of Marianne Moore with some readings of Stevie Smith, Ravinthiran reflects on why we continue to read the twentieth-century US...

... to be describing. Again, we may not he quite Ixiffled IN t we ai-e given pause when lie presen ts another group who are claimed to respond to the earth as Stevie Smith did: she “could not be held down anti, in escaping the limitations of the earth, took it with her. Like Foi-ster, k’eats, Dylan...

... Contettzporaiy Poets: Charles Totnlinson, Donald Davie, 11. S. Thomas, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Thomas Kinsella, Stevie Smith, W. S. Graham. London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1974. xiii 4- 198 1313. $1 1.95. Hliike, Kathleen. Play, Games, and Sport: The Literary Works...

... by Stevie Smith: Cry pretty, pretty, pretty, and you’ll be able Very soon not even to cry pretty And so be delivered entirely from humanity This is prettiest of all, it is very pretty.6 5 Nietzsche, “The ‘Improvers of Mankind sec. 30, in The Twilight of the Idols, trans...

..., Tobin. The Mirror of Medusa. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1983. xviii + 175 pp. $22.50. Smith, Nicholas D. (editor). Philosophers Look at Science Fiction. Chicago: Nelson- Hall, 1982. xii + 204 pp. $20.95, cloth; $10.95, paper. Steinberg, Ada. Words...

... of the lesbian subtext in this and other scenes see Patricia Smith, “‘The Things People Don’t Say’: Lesbian Panic in The Voyage Out,” in Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings, ed. Eileen Barrett and Patricia Cramer (New York: New York University Press, 1997), 133–40. Wollaeger ❙ Emergence of Female Modernism...