...H. K. Russell University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers. No. 24, William Carlos Williams . By Brinnin John Malcolm . Pp. 48 . No. 25, Washington Irving . By Leary Lewis . Pp. 48 . No. 26, Ezra Pound . By Van O’Connor William . Pp. 48 . No. 27...

.... louis j. budd Dylan Thomas in America: An Intimate Journal. By John Malcolm Brinnin. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1955. Pp. 294. $4.00. This book illustrates once again the well-known truism that the artist s life and his art are sometimes but remotely connected. Indeed, the study of the lives...

..., the Indian tribes, frontier life, diplomacy, and military affairs will find it a convenient index for locating printed and archival sources. UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT HAROLD S. SCHULTZ University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers. No. 24, William Carlos Williams. By John Malcolm Brinnin. Pp. 48. No. 25...

..., those who lived under milkwood with him seem to hold views of Thomas that differ radically from those of the rest of the world. Hardly any of the excesses of behavior so exhaustively charted by one of his biographers, John Malcolm Brinnin, are re­ flected in their reminiscences. They almost unanimously...

.... Before Mr. John Malcolm Brinnin published his ill-timed book on Dylan Thomas in America in 1955, he showed the MS to the poet s widow, Caitlin Thomas. Mrs. Thomas protested violently against its publication and promised to give her version of her husband s character and career. This is not the promised...

..., however, and a respectful silence would seem to have been in order especially a silence regarding some of the more lurid details in this book. But Mr. Brinnin, who first invited Thomas to America, arranged his lecture tours, and took in hand this most exhausting, exasperating and most completely...

..., however, and a respectful silence would seem to have been in order especially a silence regarding some of the more lurid details in this book. But Mr. Brinnin, who first invited Thomas to America, arranged his lecture tours, and took in hand this most exhausting, exasperating and most completely...

... somewhat longer works by our own critics, it is a provoking book that can disarrange accepted patterns for all but the most cocksure specialist in American letters. louis j. budd Dylan Thomas in America: An Intimate Journal. By John Malcolm Brinnin. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1955. Pp. 294. $4.00...

...: An Intimate Journal. By John Malcolm Brinnin. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1955. Pp. 294. $4.00. This book illustrates once again the well-known truism that the artist s life and his art are sometimes but remotely connected. Indeed, the study of the lives of artists is often a positive hindrance...

... the American poets. Another equally formidable section reveals a widely used symbolic language of geography and travel which had first been Book Reviews 355 practiced by Auden. (Auden is shown as a major influence and initiator among a group of poets which includes J. Berryman, J. M. Brinnin, H. Chisholm, R...

...Cushing Strout Book Reviews 355 practiced by Auden. (Auden is shown as a major influence and initiator among a group of poets which includes J. Berryman, J. M. Brinnin, H. Chisholm, R. Fitzgerald, R. Jarrell, H. Nemerov, F. Prokosch, K. Rexroth, R. P. Warren, and many more.) An appropriate...

... . Pp. 41 . $0.25 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 BOOKS Leftover Life to Kill. By Caitlin Thomas. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1957. Pp. 262. $4.50. Before Mr. John Malcolm Brinnin published his ill-timed book on Dylan Thomas in America in 1955, he showed the MS...