...William E. Cain The Critic Agonistes: Psychology, Myth, and the Art of Fiction . By Weiss Daniel , Edited by Solomon Eric Arkin Stephen . Foreword by Richard Ellmann. Seattle and London : University of Washington Press , 1985 . Pp. xii , 270 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1987...

...Wallace Jackson The Critic as Anti-Philosopher: Essays and Papers by F. R. Leavis . Edited by Singh G. . Athens : The University of Georgia Press , 1983 . Pp. vii , 208 . $16.00 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Book Reviews 103 weakness of man or the strength...

...Charles Richard Sanders The Victorian Critic and the Idea of History: Carlyle, Arnold, Pater . By Dale Peter Allan . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1977 . Pp. [ x ], 295 . $13.50 . Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 382 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...Stanley T. Williams Copyright © 1924 by Duke University Press 1924 Hartley Coleridge as a Critic of Literature Stanley T. Williams Yale University When the name of Hartley Coleridge is mentioned we dis­ pose of it lightly. We say: Oh, his sonnets Apart from family distinction he survives...

...Louis B. Wright Copyright © 1930 by Duke University Press 1930 JOHN WESLEY: SCHOLAR AND CRITIC LOUIS B. WRIGHT University of North Carolina STUDENTS of the eighteenth century are familiar with John Wesley, the preacher, the evangelist who spread the fear of Hell and the hope of Heaven...

...Grant Webster Allen Tate: The Conservative Critic Grant Webster At occasional times all men are victims of paranoia and nostalgia, but Allen Tate is defined by the enemies he keeps in a more con­ sistent way than most. A connoisseur of lost causes, Tate has faced his enemies for a period of forty...

... Quarterly, 3rd ser., VI, 437-503). Neither work is listed in the bibliography. Only Canby s preface, which contains most of the seminal ideas of Baine s criticism, is mentioned in a single footnote in reference to the production of The Can­ didates at the William and Mary Theater in 1949. Half of the book...

...Charles I. Glicksberg Copyright © 1936 by Duke University Press 1936 WALDO FRANK: CRITIC OF AMERICA CHARLES I. GLICKSBERG I THE STRANGE career of Waldo Frank offers an in­ structive symbol of the intellectual fog through which America has blundered during the last two decades. A bril­ liant...

...Louis Pendleton Copyright © 1936 by Duke University Press 1936 PEPYS AS DRAMATIC CRITIC LOUIS PENDLETON SAMUEL PEPYS seems to have loved the theater only a little less than good clothes of the latest cut, good food in distinguished company, and choice wines that would cause him to become...

...Charles I. Glicksberg Copyright © 1937 by Duke University Press 1937 KENNETH BURKE: THE CRITIC S CRITIC CHARLES I. GLICKSBERG I ASUBTLE and adventurous critic, Kenneth Burke is willing to follow the trail of an idea wherever it may lead, without regard to established sanctities of meaning...

...Arlin Turner Copyright © 1938 by Duke University Press 1938 HAWTHORNE AS SELF-CRITIC ARLIN TURNER ON DOZENS of occasions Hawthorne criticized his own works; and John Erskine has said of him that there never was, per­ haps, a better self-critic. It might be expected that he would habit­...

...The Editor Copyright © 1904 by Duke University Press 1904 Volume III. OCTOBER, 1904. Number 4. The South Atlantic Quarterly. The Task of the Critic. In the April, 1904, issue of The South Atlantic Quarterly there was published an article on Some Difficulties of the History Teacher...

...David K. Jackson Poe as a Literary Critic . By Cooke John Esten . Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Fagin N. Bryllion . A Publication of the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press , 1946 . Pp. x , 15 . $1.00 . Copyright © 1947...

...P. F. Baum Charles Du Bos and English Literature: A Critic and His Orientation . By Bertocci Angelo Philip . New York : King’s Crown Press , 1949 . Pp. x , 285 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 Book Reviews 503 of merely noting the changes from...

... to such issues. On the basis of his treatment of Edison, a critic guesses that Wachhorst may be the author of some of these studies, and they will be welcome. UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN DAVID E. E. SLOANE F. O. Matthiessen: Christian Socialist as Critic. By Frederick C. Stern. Chapel Hill: University of North...

...Ralph M. Wardle 222 The South Atlantic Quarterly nationally in the post-New Deal era. To students of that subject, as well as those interested in modern Texas politics, this book will be a useful and entertaining guide. University of Texas at Austin Lewis L. Gould William Hazlitt: Critic of Power...

...Stephen Moore James T. Farrell as Critic: A Lesson in Literature Stephen Moore Everybody knows Farrell. He was the punch-drunk middle-weight slugger of modern American naturalism; he took some of the best shots from the heavyweight American critical establishment and somehow still stayed...

... retreat (p. xi). It is a careful, balanced study that all students of a crucial period in Ameri­ can history will have to take into account. DUKE UNIVERSITY ROBERT F. DURDEN On Not Being Good Enough: Writings of a Working Critic. By Roger Sale. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. xiv, 218...

...Earl G. Mueller James Gibbons Huneker: Critic of the Seven Arts . By Schwab Arnold T. . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1963 . Pp. 384 . $8.25 . Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Book Reviews 255 The Political Novels of Joseph Conrad. By Eloise Knapp Hay...

...Derek Stanford Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 MIDDLETON MURRY AS LITERARY CRITIC Derek Stanford i John Middleton Murry, whose death occurred in March, 1957, had and still has many claims on our attention. He was one of those, in the words of Keats, to whom the miseries...