...Herbert Howarth Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 ELIOT and HOFMANNSTHAL Herbert Howartb Discussing Marianne Moore in the Dial of December, 1923, Eliot ranked her with five poets American, English, Irish, French, German who interested him most at that date. The American was Pound...

...- tra exclaims these words in the final scene of Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Sophoclean tragedy. The murderous mother and stepfather—Kly- temnestra and Aegithus—have been killed, and Elektra’s father...

... here as in the dramas of the great Greek tragedians? And there is all the unity of one act. Yet with all the eternities pending for the two in this bit of art, it is entertainment only, while the real one-act play as written by Yeats, Lavedan, Sudermann, Strindberg, von Hofmannsthal, Sharp, Maeterlinck...

... George, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Gabriele D Annunzio, Maurice Barres, and Andre Gide, who believed in art for the sake of art or at least for the sake of the artist; of the Disenchanted: Wilhelm Dilthey, Heinrich Rickert, Max Weber, and the quantum physicists; of the Searchers for the Lost Dimension: Freud...

..., the great creators who had made Vienna a center of art before the first World War. Its geniuses in the field of literature were elderly men, like Schnitzler, Bahr, BeerHofmann, and Hofmannsthal. Many among the younger talents, like the satirical novelist, Robert Neumann, the atonal composer, Arnold...

..., representa­ tive, perhaps, more of the spirit of the postwar age than of the prewar. There were the voices, to use Masur s categories, of the terrible De­ stroying Fathers: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevski; of the SelfEnchanted: Oscar Wilde, Stefan George, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Gabriele D Annunzio...

... temporary Germany have been Stefan George, Moeller van den Bruck, Oswald Spengler, Ernst Jiinger, Ernst Niekisch, Hans Zehrer, and Hermann Rauschning.] Hugo von Hofmannsthal once defined the Conservative Revolu­ tion in its German form as a political philosophy arising from the search for sociality (Bindung...