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Two Liberals, One Aesthete

Politics and the Novel, by Irving Howe

by Benjamin De Mott

The Hudson Review, Autumn 1957, pp. 465-471

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    1. The Nature of the Novel by Jose Ortega y Gasset, pp. 11-42
    2. The Chinese Banyan Tree by William Meredith, pp. 43-44
    3. The Vow by Anthony Hecht, p. 45
    4. The Origin of Centaurs by Anthony Hecht, pp. 46-47
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    8. Twenty Years Gone, She Returns to the Nunnery by William Dickey, p. 54
    9. One Incident of Many by William Dickey, p. 55
    10. As Much as He Could Learn by William Dickey, p. 56
    11. Thus; Sonnet; Sestina on Six Words by Weldon Kees by Donald Justice, pp. 57-59
    12. Cry Figs; Intaglio by Henri Coulette, pp. 60-61
    13. Sonata for Percussion; The Keeper of the Birds; Chaconne; Islemorada by Ronald L. Perry, pp. 62-65
    14. Paris and Cleveland are Voyages by Herbert Gold, pp. 66-85
    15. Tibullus: Elegy II, 4 by Hubert Creekmore, pp. 86-87
    16. Chaucer's Nightingales by Marvin Mudrick, pp. 88-95
    17. Paris Letter by Olivier Todd, pp. 96-102
    18. Love, Death, and the "Foreign" Film - 1957 by Vernon Young, pp. 103-110
    19. Art Chronicle by Kenneth B. Sawyer, pp. 111-116
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      Opera as an Art Form by Roger Sessions, pp. 117-121 - 1 Review
      1. Opera as Drama by Joseph Kerman
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      Poetry of the Tout Ensemble by Northrop Frye, pp. 122-125 - 2 Reviews
      1. Hypnos Waking by Rene Char
      2. Rene Char's Poetry by Maurice Blanchot, Gabriel Bounoure, and Albert Camus, ...
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      Sawdust and Wine by Joseph Bennett, pp. 126-131 - 5 Reviews
      1. The Minute and Longer Poems by John Holloway
      2. Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, and Other Poems by John Berryman
      3. In the Rose of Time by Robert Fitzgerald
      4. Green with Beasts by W.S. Merwin
      5. The Form of Loss by Edgar Bowers
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      The Stuff of the Theatre by Thomas Barbour, pp. 132-139 - 2 Reviews
      1. Playbook: Five Plays for a New Theatre
      2. Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
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      Agonists and Agonizers, and a Utopian by Benjamin de Mott, pp. 140-148 - 8 Reviews
      1. The Fall by Albert Camus
      2. The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier
      3. Brothers and Sisters by I. Compton-Burnett
      4. Go In Beauty by William Eastlake
      5. Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
      6. The Field of Vision by Wright Morris
      7. The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West
      8. Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson
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      1. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
      2. A Collection of Essays by George Orwell
      3. The Orwell Reader by George Orwell
      4. A Study of George Orwell by Christopher Hollis
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      2. Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
      3. Beasts and Men by Pierre Gascar
      4. The Stories of Liam O'Flaherty by Liam O'Flaherty
      5. A Contest of Ladies by William Sansom
      6. The Daffodil Sky by H.E. Bates
      7. The Sailor, Sense of Humor, and Other Stories by V.S. Pritchett
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    1. Wyndham Lewis by T.S. Eliot, pp. 167-170
    2. Wyndham Lewis: The Massacre and the Innocents by John Holloway, pp. 171-188
    3. Swiss Altitudes by Jean Garrigue, pp. 189-190
    4. The Hunt by Jean Garrigue, pp. 191-193
    5. The Way Down by Stanley Kunitz, pp. 194-195
    6. Casa D'Amunt; In Such a Poise is Love by Alastair Reid, pp. 196-197
    7. Demeter in the Fields by Richmond Lattimore, p. 198
    8. Leeward; The Dancer; The White Gods by Winthrop Palmer, pp. 199-200
    9. Joe, the Vanishing American by Harvey Swados, pp. 201-218
    10. Saxa Rubra by Joseph Bennett, pp. 219-223
    11. The Power of Caesar is in a New Relationship by Joseph Bennett, pp. 224-228
    12. Of Poetry by Joseph Bennett, p. 229
    13. Landscape by Joseph Bennett, pp. 230-231
    14. Patristic by Joseph Bennett, p. 232
    15. Something to Explain by Thomas C. Turner, pp. 233-260
    16. Revivals and Revisions: Theatre Chronicle by Thomas Barbour, pp. 261-269
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      Making Believe It is Moby Dick by George Barbarow, pp. 270-274 - 1 Review
      1. Moby Dick (1956 Film) by John Huston
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      The Life of Reason by Marvin Mudrick, pp. 275-281 - 2 Reviews
      1. Essays in Literary Criticism by George Santayana and Irving Singer
      2. The Letters of George Santayana by Daniel Cory and George Santayana
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      3. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
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      Traditions and Individual Talents in Recent Japanese Fiction by Earl Miner, pp. 302-308 - 5 Reviews
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      4. Zone of Emptiness by Hiroshi Noma
      5. Modern Japanese Literature by Donald Keene
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      1. The Spirit of Tragedy by Herbert J. Muller
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    3. The Realistic Oriole: A Study of Wallace Stevens by Northrop Frye, pp. 353-370
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      5. The Function of Criticism by Yvor Winters
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      3. A Swimmer in the Air by Howard Moss
      4. Letter from a Distant Land by Philip Booth
      5. A Case of Samples by Kingsley Amis
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      Two Liberals, One Aesthete by Benjamin De Mott, pp. 465-471 - 3 Reviews
      1. Politics and the Novel by Irving Howe
      2. The Mirror in the Roadway by Frank O'Connor
      3. Society and Self in the Novel by Mark Schorer
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    2. Poems by William Stafford, pp. 514-517
    3. On the Continuity of American Poetry by Roy Harvey Pearce, pp. 518-539
    4. Two Old-Fashioned Songs by Yvor Winters, p. 540
    5. Cadillac by Karl Shapiro, p. 541
    6. Ballata by Forrest Read, pp. 542-543
    7. Schoolmaster by Hy Sobiloff, p. 544
    8. A Portfolio from Ernst Barlach by B.L. Reid, pp. 545-546
    9. The Capture by Errol Pritchard, p. 547
    10. The Purity and Cunning of Sherwood Anderson by Herbert Gold, pp. 548-557
    11. Kurzgefasster Lebenslauf by Erich Kastner, p. 558
    12. Poems by Jerome Dennis Rothenberg, pp. 559-571
    13. A Note on Erich Kastner by Jerome Dennis Rothenberg, pp. 572-574
    14. Goliath by Marvin Solomon, pp. 575-576
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