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All Years = 21 Books, 173 Articles
Decade 1940s = 4 Articles
��Year 1948 = 2 Articles
��Year 1949 = 2 Articles
Decade 1950s = 6 Books, 21 Articles
��Year 1950 = 3 Articles
��Year 1951 = 1 Book, 1 Article
��Year 1952 = 2 Articles
��Year 1953 = 3 Articles
��Year 1954 = 1 Book, 1 Article
��Year 1955 = 3 Articles
��Year 1956 = 1 Book, 1 Article
��Year 1957 = 2 Articles
��Year 1958 = 1 Book, 2 Articles
��Year 1959 = 2 Books, 3 Articles
Decade 1960s = 3 Books, 53 Articles
��Year 1960 = 6 Articles
��Year 1961 = 1 Book, 8 Articles
��Year 1962 = 6 Articles
��Year 1963 = 1 Book, 4 Articles
��Year 1964 = 4 Articles
��Year 1965 = 6 Articles
��Year 1966 = 7 Articles
��Year 1967 = 7 Articles
��Year 1968 = 1 Book, 4 Articles
��Year 1969 = 1 Article
Decade 1970s = 6 Books, 45 Articles
��Year 1970 = 5 Articles
��Year 1971 = 5 Articles
��Year 1972 = 1 Book, 1 Article
��Year 1973 = 1 Book, 2 Articles
��Year 1974 = 1 Book, 3 Articles
��Year 1975 = 1 Book, 8 Articles
��Year 1976 = 1 Book, 3 Articles
��Year 1977 = 7 Articles
��Year 1978 = 1 Book, 7 Articles
��Year 1979 = 4 Articles
Decade 1980s = 5 Books, 40 Articles
��Year 1980 = 1 Book, 5 Articles
��Year 1981 = 8 Articles
��Year 1982 = 8 Articles
��Year 1983 = 1 Book, 8 Articles
��Year 1984 = 3 Articles
��Year 1986 = 1 Article
��Year 1987 = 1 Book, 2 Articles
��Year 1988 = 1 Book, 2 Articles
��Year 1989 = 1 Book, 3 Articles
Decade 1990s = 1 Book, 10 Articles
��Year 1990 = 4 Articles
��Year 1992 = 1 Article
��Year 1994 = 1 Book
��Year 1995 = 1 Article
��Year 1996 = 2 Articles
��Year 1997 = 1 Article
��Year 1998 = 1 Article
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[+]
About That Babboon...
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Madame Blavatsky's Baboon, by Peter Washington
Madame Blavatsky's Baboon
by Peter Washington
National Review,
May 1, 1995
, p. 81
Books, Arts, Manners
[+]
After the Two-Eyed Men
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
McAlmon and the Lost Generation, by Robert E. Knoll and Robert McAlmon
McAlmon and the Lost Generation
by Robert E. Knoll and Robert McAlmon
National Review,
November 20, 1962
, p. 395
[+]
Alice in Empsonland
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Structure of Complex Words, by William Empson
The Structure of Complex Words
by William Empson
The Hudson Review,
Spring 1952
, pp. 137-143
Books, Arts & Manners
[+]
All the Angels Have Big Feet
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Purple Decades: A Reader, by Tom Wolfe
The Purple Decades: A Reader
by Tom Wolfe
National Review,
February 18, 1983
, p. 193
Apples, Planets, Dollars
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
March 25, 1961
, pp. 183-184
The Art of Poetry
(1959)
Hugh Kenner
Art: Eye of the Beholder
Hugh Kenner
Photographers and seventeenth-century Dutch painters demonstrate the fine art of just l...
The Harpers Monthly,
August 1983
, pp. 66-68
[+]
Art: The Invention of Space
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Beginnings of Architecture, by Sigfried Giedion
The Beginnings of Architecture
by Sigfried Giedion
National Review,
February 23, 1965
, pp. 160-161
[+]
Artemis and Harlequin
(2 Reviews)
Hugh Kenner
The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore, by Marianne Moore
The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore
by Marianne Moore
Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957
by W.H. Auden
National Review,
December 26, 1967
, p. 1432
Books Arts & Manners
[+]
Assemblages
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Da Vinci's Bicycle, by Guy Davenport
Da Vinci's Bicycle
by Guy Davenport
National Review,
September 28, 1979
, pp. 1238-1240
Automated Out?
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
October 10, 1959
, pp. 389-390
Baker Street to Eccles Street
Hugh Kenner
The Hudson Review,
Winter 1948
, pp. 481-499
[+]
Between two tongues
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Contemporary Irish Poetry, by Anthony Bradley
Contemporary Irish Poetry
by Anthony Bradley
Inquiry,
October 6, 1980
, pp. 28-29
[+]
Biography by the Ground Rules
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
James Joyce, by Richard Ellmann
James Joyce
by Richard Ellmann
National Review,
November 21, 1959
, pp. 492-493
[+]
The Blue Pencil
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
In This Wild Water, by James M. Shebl
In This Wild Water
by James M. Shebl
National Review,
September 16, 1977
, p. 1060
[+]
Books in Brief
(Review)
H. Kenner
Deaths for the Ladies, by Norman Mailer
Deaths for the Ladies
by Norman Mailer
National Review,
September 11, 1962
, p. 200
[+]
Books: Poetize or Bust
(6 Reviews)
Hugh Kenner
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975, by Robert Creeley
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975
by Robert Creeley
The Maximus Poems
by Charles Olson
A Guide to the Maximus Poems of Charles Olson
by George F. Butterick
The Modern Poetic Sequence
by M.L. Rosenthal and Sally M. Gall
The Changing Light at Sandover
by James Merrill
Antarctic Traveller
by Katha Pollitt
The Harpers Monthly,
September 1983
, pp. 67-69
[+]
Books: The Word Police
(8 Reviews)
Hugh Kenner
What's the Good Word?, by William Safire
What's the Good Word?
by William Safire
American Tongue and Cheek
by Jim Quinn and Benjamin DeMott
I Always Look Up the Word "Egregious"
by Maxwell Nurnberg
The Book of Jargon
by Don Ethan Miller
Word Laird
by Charlton Laird
Have a Word on Me
by Willard R. Espy
Say It My Way
by Willard R. Espy
Science Observed
by Jeremy Bernstein
The Harpers Monthly,
June 1982
, pp. 68-70
Books: This Review Is About What
Hugh Kenner
The Harpers Monthly,
March 1983
, pp. 64-66
[+]
Books: Tumult of the Limbs
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Education of the Senses, by Peter Gay
Education of the Senses
by Peter Gay
The Harpers Monthly,
December 1983
, pp. 64-69
[+]
Books: Who Was Leslie Fiedler?
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
What Was Literature?, by Leslie A. Fiedler
What Was Literature?
by Leslie A. Fiedler
The Harpers Monthly,
November 1982
, pp. 69-73
[+]
Books: Wisdom of the Tribe
(3 Reviews)
Hugh Kenner
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, by John A. Simpson
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
by John A. Simpson
English Provincial Cooking
by Elisabeth Ayrton
The Oxford Book of Aphorisms
by John Gross
The Harpers Monthly,
May 1983
, pp. 84-86
Opinions
[+]
Brave Theory Puffing
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
An Appetite for Poetry, by Frank Kermode
An Appetite for Poetry
by Frank Kermode
Chronicles,
February 1990
, pp. 28-29
Arts and Letters
[+]
Breaking the Line
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked, by Paul Mariani
William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked
by Paul Mariani
The Harpers Monthly,
December 1981
, pp. 54-57
Bucky: A Guided Tour of Buckminster Fuller
(1973)
Hugh Kenner
4
Reviews
Books, Arts, Manners
[+]
Buster Agonistes
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Keaton, by Rudi Blesh
Keaton
by Rudi Blesh
National Review,
August 9, 1966
, p. 786
Buster Keaton
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
February 22, 1966
, p. 167
[+]
A Callithumpian Life
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Samuel Beckett: A Biography, by Deirdre Bair
Samuel Beckett: A Biography
by Deirdre Bair
The Saturday Review,
August 1978
, pp. 46-47
Campus 1987
Hugh Kenner
The Department of Factual Verification
National Review,
October 9, 1987
, pp. 37-40
[+]
Care, Not Madness
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
A Marianne Moore Reader, by Marianne Moore
A Marianne Moore Reader
by Marianne Moore
National Review,
April 24, 1962
, pp. 294-295
Christmas Book Recommendations
Robert L. Bartley, Jacques Barzun, and Robert N. Bellah, ...
The American Spectator,
December 1976
, pp. 20-23
[+]
Christ's cunning rimesmith
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Gerard Manley Hopkins, by Paddy Kitchen
Gerard Manley Hopkins
by Paddy Kitchen
Inquiry,
April 16, 1979
, pp. 27-28
Chuck Jones
(1994)
Hugh Kenner
A Flurry of Drawings, Portraits of American Genius
1
Review
[+]
The Civil Issue
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Single Issues, by Joseph Sobran
Single Issues
by Joseph Sobran
National Review,
July 8, 1983
, pp. 830-831
Classics by the Pound
Hugh Kenner
The Library of America will sit on your bookshelf forever
The Harpers Monthly,
August 1982
, pp. 71-73
A Colder Eye
(1983)
Hugh Kenner
The Modern Irish Writers
4
Reviews,
1
Readable
Arts and Letters
[+]
Colonial Lexicon
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Oxford American Dictionary, by Eugene H. Ehrlich, Stuart Berg Flexner, and Gorton Carru...
Oxford American Dictionary
by Eugene H. Ehrlich, Stuart Berg Flexner, and Gorton Carruth, ...
The Harpers Monthly,
February 1981
, pp. 71-74
A Communication on James and Stanslaus Joyce
Hugh Kenner
The Hudson Review,
Spring 1950
, pp. 157-160
A Communication
Hugh Kenner
The Hudson Review,
Spring 1955
, p. 160
[+]
The Computerized Ulysses
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Ulysses, by James Joyce
Ulysses
by James Joyce
The Harpers Monthly,
April 1980
, pp. 89-95
Books, Arts, Manners
[+]
The Confidence Man
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Art of W. C. Fields, by William K. Everson
The Art of W. C. Fields
by William K. Everson
National Review,
April 23, 1968
, pp. 399-400
Books
[+]
Contempt Causes Insanity
(4 Reviews)
Hugh Kenner
Self and World, by Eli Siegel
Self and World
by Eli Siegel
Kafka: A Biography
by Ronald Hayman
Washington Itself
by E.J. Applewhite
The Gift of Good Land
by Wendell Berry
The Harpers Monthly,
April 1982
, pp. 96-100
The Counterfeiters
(1968)
Hugh Kenner
An Historical Comedy
4
Reviews,
1
Readable
Creativity and Inequality
Hugh Kenner
Modern Age,
Fall 1973
, pp. 338-347
[+]
Criticism: The Wherefore of How-To
(8 Reviews)
Hugh Kenner
Pascal, BASIC, call up a literary tradition
The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Expanded Edition
by Herbert G. May and Bruce M. Metzger
BASIC and the Personal Computer
by Thomas Dwyer and Margot Critchfield
Oh! Pascal!
by Doug Cooper and Michael Clancy
Pascal
by David L. Heiserman
Word Processing on the Kaypro
by Peter A. McWilliams
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
Life on the Mississippi
by Mark Twain
The Waste Land
by T.S. Eliot and Michael North
The Harpers Monthly,
March 1984
, pp. 91-94
Books, Arts, Manners
[+]
The Critic's Not for Burning
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Milton's God, by William Empson
Milton's God
by William Empson
National Review,
August 28, 1962
, pp. 149-150
Books, Arts, Manners
[+]
Cult of the New
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
I Am My Brother, by John Lehmann
I Am My Brother
by John Lehmann
National Review,
June 4, 1960
, p. 366
Delectations
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
January 13, 1970
, p. 35
Delectations
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
July 28, 1970
, p. 790
Books Arts & Manners
[+]
To Die in Deseret
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Executioner's Song, by Norman Mailer
The Executioner's Song
by Norman Mailer
National Review,
February 22, 1980
, p. 230
Don't send Johnny to college (Speaking Out)
Hugh Kenner
The Saturday Evening Post,
November 14, 1964
, pp. 12-17
[+]
Dr. Williams Shaping his Axe
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Selected Essays, by William Carlos Williams
Selected Essays
by William Carlos Williams
The Hudson Review,
Spring 1955
, pp. 144-149
Dublin's Joyce
(1956)
Hugh Kenner
4
Reviews,
1
Readable
Editorial
Hugh Kenner
In Memoriam: Ezra Pound
The Saturday Review,
December 2, 1972
, pp. 30-32
Eliot's Moral Dialectic
Hugh Kenner
The Hudson Review,
Autumn 1949
, pp. 421-448
Books, Arts & Manners
[+]
Eliot's Unfit Reader
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form, by Anthony Julius
T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form
by Anthony Julius
National Review,
September 30, 1996
, pp. 62-63
Books in Review
[+]
The Eminence of Mr. Eliot
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
On Poetry and Poets, by T.S. Eliot
On Poetry and Poets
by T.S. Eliot
National Review,
November 2, 1957
, p. 403
Evelyn Waugh, In Memoriam
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
May 3, 1966
, p. 418
Books Arts & Manners
Exploding Ducks and Other Primal Tales
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
October 13, 1978
, pp. 1287-1290
[+]
Expostulating with Vandals
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Collected Essays, by Allen Tate
Collected Essays
by Allen Tate
National Review,
March 26, 1960
, pp. 205-206
Reviews
[+]
Ezra Pound: The Last Rower
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Ezra Pound: The Last Rower, by C. David Heymann
Ezra Pound: The Last Rower
by C. David Heymann
The American Spectator,
January 1977
, pp. 21-24
[+]
Fictitious Commodities
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The End of Intelligent Writing, by Richard Kostelanetz
The End of Intelligent Writing
by Richard Kostelanetz
National Review,
May 23, 1975
, pp. 569-570
[+]
Film: Miltonic Monkey
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
King Kong (1976 Film), by John Guillermin
King Kong (1976 Film)
by John Guillermin
National Review,
November 26, 1976
, p. 1293
The Folklore of Kinetic Man
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
September 24, 1963
, p. 238
[+]
From a Lost World
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Pound/Joyce, by Forrest Read and Ezra Pound
Pound/Joyce
by Forrest Read and Ezra Pound
National Review,
February 27, 1968
, pp. 195-196
Books
[+]
From Lower Bellowvia
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Dean's December, by Saul Bellow
The Dean's December
by Saul Bellow
The Harpers Monthly,
February 1982
, pp. 62-65
Books, Arts, Manners
[+]
From Technology, A Style
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment, by Reyner Banham
The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment
by Reyner Banham
National Review,
August 12, 1969
, p. 809
Book Reviews
[+]
Fuller's Follies
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Critical Path, by R. Buckminster Fuller
Critical Path
by R. Buckminster Fuller
The Saturday Review,
February 1981
, pp. 58-59
Geodesic Math and How to Use It
(1976)
Hugh Kenner
1
Review
Arts and Letters
[+]
A Geographer of the Imagination
(4 Reviews)
Hugh Kenner
The Geography of the Imagination, by Guy Davenport
The Geography of the Imagination
by Guy Davenport
The Critical Difference
by Barbara Johnson
Saving the Text
by Geoffrey H. Hartman
Untying the Text
by Robert E. Young
The Harpers Monthly,
August 1981
, pp. 66-68
Glimpses of All of It
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
December 31, 1980
, pp. 1583-1585
Gnomon
(1958)
Hugh Kenner
Essays in Contemporary Literature
4
Reviews,
1
Readable
[+]
Going to Hell
(4 Reviews)
Hugh Kenner
Dante: Divine Comedy, by C.H. Sisson and Dante Alighieri
Dante: Divine Comedy
by C.H. Sisson and Dante Alighieri
Dante's Purgatorio
by Mark Musa and Dante
Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy
by Charles S. Singleton and Dante Alighieri
Dante: Inferno
by Allen Mandelbaum and Dante Alighieri
The Harpers Monthly,
June 1981
, pp. 69-71
Books, Arts, Manners
[+]
Hard Row to Hoe
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Hidden God, by Cleanth Brooks
The Hidden God
by Cleanth Brooks
National Review,
August 13, 1963
, pp. 109-110
[+]
Hemingway's Letter
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Hemingway's Reading, 1910-1940, by Michael S. Reynolds
Hemingway's Reading, 1910-1940
by Michael S. Reynolds
The Harpers Monthly,
April 1981
, pp. 93-95
[+]
Here We Go Again
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Rites of Spring, by Modris Eksteins
The Rites of Spring
by Modris Eksteins
National Review,
June 2, 1989
, p. 53
A Homemade World
(1975)
Hugh Kenner
The American Modernist Writers
7
Reviews,
2
Readable
Hommage a Monsieur Jean
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
November 19, 1963
, p. 441
How the Cruiser Was Grounded and Finn MacCool Returned
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
August 5, 1977
, pp. 874-879
[+]
II. The Traffic in Words
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Mulligan Stew, by Gilbert Sorrentino
Mulligan Stew
by Gilbert Sorrentino
The Harpers Monthly,
June 1979
, pp. 83-89
[+]
Images at Random
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Random House Encyclopedia, by James Mitchell and Jess Stein
The Random House Encyclopedia
by James Mitchell and Jess Stein
The Harpers Monthly,
December 1977
, pp. 102-106
Books
[+]
Impassioned Reticence
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Discretions, by Mary de Rachewiltz
Discretions
by Mary de Rachewiltz
National Review,
August 24, 1971
, pp. 933-934
[+]
In the Caged Panther's Eyes
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Pisan Cantos, by Ezra Pound
The Pisan Cantos
by Ezra Pound
The Hudson Review,
Winter 1948
, pp. 580-586
[+]
Incurious Biographer
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Life of Ezra Pound, by Noel Stock
The Life of Ezra Pound
by Noel Stock
The New Republic,
October 17, 1970
, pp. 30-31
Inventing Literary Lives
Hugh Kenner
The Harpers Monthly,
October 1978
, pp. 99-101
[+]
Inventing Us
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, by Harold Bloom
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
by Harold Bloom
National Review,
November 23, 1998
, p. 51
The Invisible Poet: T.S. Eliot
(1959)
Hugh Kenner
2
Reviews
[+]
Job Well Done
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Odd Jobs, by John Updike
Odd Jobs
by John Updike
National Review,
February 17, 1992
, pp. 52-53
[+]
Joyce's "Exiles"
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Exiles, by James Joyce
Exiles
by James Joyce
The Hudson Review,
Autumn 1952
, pp. 389-403
Joyce's Voices
(1978)
Hugh Kenner
3
Reviews
The Jumbo Lustrum
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
December 5, 1975
, pp. 1413-1415
[+]
Leavis' Greatness and Manipulative Coldness
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Living Principle, by F.R. Leavis
The Living Principle
by F.R. Leavis
National Review,
December 19, 1975
, p. 1487
[+]
Legend of the Rue de Fleurus
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Gertrude Stein in Pieces, by Richard Bridgman
Gertrude Stein in Pieces
by Richard Bridgman
National Review,
January 26, 1971
, p. 89
Letters
Hugh Kenner, A. Walton Litz, Joseph Kerman, and Richard Stone, ...
The New York Review of Books,
October 27, 1988
, pp. 102-104
Lightning at Stratford
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
March 27, 1962
, p. 213
Lingering Tastemasters
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
November 30, 1965
, pp. 1098-1099
[+]
Lynxx's Progress
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Take Five, by D. Keith Mano
Take Five
by D. Keith Mano
National Review,
June 11, 1982
, p. 701
Mazes
(1989)
Hugh Kenner
Essays
3
Reviews,
1
Readable
The Mechanic Muse
(1987)
Hugh Kenner
2
Reviews,
1
Readable
Memory Refreshed
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
December 2, 1961
, p. 385
[+]
Methadone Fix for Experience Addicts
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Century's Ebb, by John Dos Passos
Century's Ebb
by John Dos Passos
National Review,
November 7, 1975
, p. 1247
[+]
Mirror of Language
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Iliad, by Robert Fitzgerald and Homer
The Iliad
by Robert Fitzgerald and Homer
National Review,
April 25, 1975
, p. 462
Miscellany
Hugh Kenner
Out My Computer Window
The Harpers Monthly,
November 1989
, pp. 76-80
Mixpoem: A Feature
Hugh Kenner and James Laughlin
The Paris Review,
Winter 1984
, pp. 193-203
Books
[+]
Mockings of the Master Illusionist
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Tyrants Destroyed, and Other Stories, by Vladimir Nabokov
Tyrants Destroyed, and Other Stories
by Vladimir Nabokov
The Saturday Review,
March 8, 1975
, pp. 21-23
[+]
The Model of a Modern
(2 Reviews)
Hugh Kenner
W.S. Gilbert, by Jane W. Stedman
W.S. Gilbert
by Jane W. Stedman
The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan
by Ian Bradley, W.S. Gilbert, and Arthur Sullivan
National Review,
December 23, 1996
, p. 51
[+]
Movies: Anatomy of Tepidity
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
A Countess from Hong Kong (1967 Film), by Charles Chaplin
A Countess from Hong Kong (1967 Film)
by Charles Chaplin
National Review,
May 30, 1967
, p. 599
[+]
Movies: Olivier's Othello
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Othello (1965 Film), by John Dexter and Stuart Burge
Othello (1965 Film)
by John Dexter and Stuart Burge
National Review,
March 22, 1966
, pp. 281-282
[+]
Mr. Eliot's New Book 2.
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Notes Towards the Definition of Culture, by T.S. Eliot
Notes Towards the Definition of Culture
by T.S. Eliot
The Hudson Review,
Summer 1949
, pp. 289-294
Arts & Manners
My Interface with IBM
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
November 22, 1974
, p. 1360
Departments
The Nation's Pulse/Bouquets from Your Bureaucrats
Hugh Kenner
The American Spectator,
April 1983
, pp. 25-27
The Nation's Pulse/Reflections in a Silicon Eye
Hugh Kenner
The American Spectator,
March 1982
, pp. 26-28
[+]
The Necessity of Invention
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams, by John C. Thirlwall and William Carlo...
The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams
by John C. Thirlwall and William Carlos Williams, ...
National Review,
November 30, 1957
, p. 496
A Nervous View of Ronald Reagan
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
May 7, 1968
, pp. 444-445
[+]
A New Voice
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Poetry of Richard Milhous Nixon, by Jack S. Margolis and Richard M. Nixon
The Poetry of Richard Milhous Nixon
by Jack S. Margolis and Richard M. Nixon
National Review,
July 19, 1974
, p. 827
[+]
A New Voice
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Poetry of Richard Milhous Nixon, by Jack S. Margolis and Richard M. Nixon
The Poetry of Richard Milhous Nixon
by Jack S. Margolis and Richard M. Nixon
National Review,
November 5, 1990
, p. 136
Books Arts & Manners
[+]
Not What We Had in Mind
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Professor of Desire, by Philip Roth
The Professor of Desire
by Philip Roth
National Review,
November 11, 1977
, p. 1302
Ode from the Echo Chamber
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
November 30, 1965
, pp. 1084-1086
Books
[+]
On Man the Sad Talker
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Message in the Bottle, by Walker Percy
The Message in the Bottle
by Walker Percy
National Review,
September 12, 1975
, p. 1000
On the Laps of the Snow Gods
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
May 19, 1964
, p. 405
The Open Question
Hugh Kenner
On American Words
National Review,
February 24, 1997
, p. 52
[+]
P.S. from H.D.
(2 Reviews)
Hugh Kenner
With Poems from "Hilda's Book", by Ezra Pound
With Poems from "Hilda's Book"
by Ezra Pound
End to Torment
by Hilda Doolittle, Michael John King, and Norman Holmes Pearson, ...
Inquiry,
June 11, 1979
, pp. 20-21
[+]
Packing the line
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Collected Poems, by Basil Bunting
Collected Poems
by Basil Bunting
Inquiry,
October 30, 1978
, p. 26
[+]
Plato in Vermont
(2 Reviews)
Hugh Kenner
The Mathematical Experience, by Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh
The Mathematical Experience
by Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh
Sixty Stories
by Donald Barthelme
The Harpers Monthly,
October 1981
, pp. 84-86
Books, Arts, Manners
[+]
Poet in Fancy Dress
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Ezra Pound, by Charles Norman
Ezra Pound
by Charles Norman
National Review,
December 31, 1960
, p. 411
Poetry
Hugh Kenner
Never a Boast or a See-Here
National Review,
October 31, 1967
, p. 1217
The Poetry of Ezra Pound
(1951)
Hugh Kenner
3
Reviews,
1
Readable
A Portrait of the Lecturer as a Whole System
Hugh Kenner
The Saturday Review,
January 13, 1973
, pp. 30-37
The Pound Era
(1972)
Hugh Kenner
The Age of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis
11
Reviews,
2
Readable
[+]
Prophets of Renaissance
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Patria Mia, by Ezra Pound
Patria Mia
by Ezra Pound
The Hudson Review,
Autumn 1950
, pp. 474-477
[+]
Rare occasions
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Poet in the Imaginary Museum, by Donald Davie and Barry Alpert
The Poet in the Imaginary Museum
by Donald Davie and Barry Alpert
Inquiry,
May 29, 1978
, p. 23
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett
(1974)
Hugh Kenner
1
Review
Readings
Hugh Kenner
Ear Culture
The Harpers Monthly,
March 1989
, pp. 26-29
[+]
Recent Poetry
(4 Reviews)
Hugh Kenner
More Than Pretty Music
Thrones: 96-109 de Los Cantares
by Ezra Pound
Homage to Clio
by W.H. Auden
The Empire Finals at Verona
by Jonathan Williams
A Form of Women
by Robert Creeley
National Review,
November 19, 1960
, pp. 318-319
[+]
Red Wheelbarrow Revisited
(2 Reviews)
Hugh Kenner
William Carlos Williams: An American Artist, by James E.B. Breslin
William Carlos Williams: An American Artist
by James E.B. Breslin
The Williams-Siegel Documentary
by Martha Baird, Ellen Reiss, and William Carlos Williams, ...
The New Republic,
December 12, 1970
, pp. 22-23
Reviews
[+]
Remember That I Have Remembered
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Parade's End, by Ford Madox Ford
Parade's End
by Ford Madox Ford
The Hudson Review,
Winter 1951
, pp. 602-610
The Revenge of the Void
Hugh Kenner
The Hudson Review,
Autumn 1953
, pp. 382-397
Reviews
[+]
Nixon's China Initiative
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
A Second Flowering, by Malcolm Cowley
A Second Flowering
by Malcolm Cowley
The American Spectator,
February 1974
, p. 17
[+]
Books in Brief
(Review)
H. Kenner
Poems of a Jew, by Karl Shapiro
Poems of a Jew
by Karl Shapiro
National Review,
November 5, 1960
, p. 286
[+]
Books in Brief
(Review)
H. Kenner
The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte, by Daphne du Maurier
The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte
by Daphne du Maurier
National Review,
April 22, 1961
, p. 259
[+]
Books in Brief
(Review)
H. Kenner
Collected Poems, Vol. III, by Roy Campbell
Collected Poems, Vol. III
by Roy Campbell
National Review,
January 14, 1961
, p. 26
[+]
Books in Brief
(Review)
H. Kenner
Why I Live on the Mountain, by C.W. Kwock and Vincent McHugh
Why I Live on the Mountain
by C.W. Kwock and Vincent McHugh
National Review,
January 28, 1961
, p. 58
[+]
Books in Brief
(Review)
H. Kenner
Starting from San Francisco, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Starting from San Francisco
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
National Review,
August 14, 1962
, p. 110
Books Considered
[+]
Eppe's of Paris
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Gerard Manley Hopkins, by Bernard Bergonzi
Gerard Manley Hopkins
by Bernard Bergonzi
The New Republic,
June 18, 1977
, p. 25
Revision
Hugh Kenner
McLuhan Redux
The Harpers Monthly,
November 1984
, pp. 71-76
Books, Arts, Manners
[+]
The Rhetoric Schlesinger Envied
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Jeweler's Eye, by William F. Buckley, Jr.
The Jeweler's Eye
by William F. Buckley, Jr.
National Review,
July 30, 1968
, p. 753
The Rose in the Steel Dust
Hugh Kenner
The Hudson Review,
Spring 1950
, pp. 66-123
Samuel Beckett
(1961)
Hugh Kenner
A Critical Study
2
Reviews,
1
Readable
Books, Arts, Manners
Samuel Beckett vs. Fiction
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
October 11, 1958
, p. 248
[+]
The Seemingly Wise
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Gertrude Stein on Picasso, by Edward Burns and Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein on Picasso
by Edward Burns and Gertrude Stein
The New Republic,
January 16, 1971
, pp. 25-29
[+]
The Servant's Looking-glass
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
One Thousand Years of Irish Prose, by Vivian Mercier and David H. Greene
One Thousand Years of Irish Prose
by Vivian Mercier and David H. Greene
The Hudson Review,
Spring 1953
, pp. 151-155
Books, Arts, Manners
[+]
The Seven-Year Shaman
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Collected Poems, 1909-1962, by T.S. Eliot
Collected Poems, 1909-1962
by T.S. Eliot
National Review,
February 11, 1964
, pp. 113-114
A Sinking Island
(1988)
Hugh Kenner
The Modern English Writers
4
Reviews,
1
Readable
Books, Arts, Manners
[+]
The Smile on the Mona Lisa
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Movies, Morals, and Art, by Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner
Movies, Morals, and Art
by Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner
National Review,
May 20, 1961
, p. 318
[+]
Something Nasty in the Meat-House
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Brother to Dragons, by Robert Penn Warren
Brother to Dragons
by Robert Penn Warren
The Hudson Review,
Winter 1953
, pp. 605-610
Books, Arts, Manners
[+]
The Spy Comes into the Drugstore
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, by John le Carre
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
by John le Carre
National Review,
July 27, 1965
, pp. 654-655
Books, Arts, Manners
[+]
Stan, Ollie, and the Universe
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Complete Films of Laurel & Hardy, by William K. Everson
The Complete Films of Laurel & Hardy
by William K. Everson
National Review,
November 14, 1967
, pp. 1277-1278
Books, Arts, Manners
[+]
The Standpoint of Genius
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Wyndham Lewis on Art, by Walter Michel, C.J. Fox, and Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis on Art
by Walter Michel, C.J. Fox, and Wyndham Lewis
National Review,
August 11, 1970
, p. 846
Books Arts & Manners
[+]
The State of Poetry
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked, by Paul Mariani
William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked
by Paul Mariani
National Review,
November 27, 1981
, p. 1423
A Stilton Catechized Upon a Table
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
April 22, 1961
, p. 250
The Stoic Comedians: Flaubert, Joyce and Beckett
(1963)
Hugh Kenner
2
Reviews
Book Reviews
[+]
Stolen Words
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Stolen Words, by Thomas Mallon
Stolen Words
by Thomas Mallon
The American Spectator,
February 1990
, pp. 39-40
[+]
Stranger Than Stannum
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Tatlin!, by Guy Davenport
Tatlin!
by Guy Davenport
National Review,
June 6, 1975
, pp. 627-629
Books, Arts, Manners
[+]
The Sureness of Belloc
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Letters from Hilaire Belloc, by Robert Speaight and Hilaire Belloc
Letters from Hilaire Belloc
by Robert Speaight and Hilaire Belloc
National Review,
April 25, 1959
, p. 22
[+]
Sweet Seventeen
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Letters Home: Correspondence, 1950-1963, by Sylvia Plath and Aurelia Schober Plath
Letters Home: Correspondence, 1950-1963
by Sylvia Plath and Aurelia Schober Plath
National Review,
April 30, 1976
, p. 459
T.S. Eliot, RIP
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
January 26, 1965
, pp. 63-64
Reviews
[+]
Tales of the Dark Vienna Woods
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Vol. I, by Ernest Jones
The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Vol. I
by Ernest Jones
The Hudson Review,
Summer 1954
, pp. 276-284
Thought: Please Welcome My Next Idea...
Hugh Kenner
Dr. Adler, Public Television, Bill Moyers, the Aspen Institute, and other great ideas
The Harpers Monthly,
December 1982
, pp. 56-60
Books, Arts, Manners
[+]
The Tone of a Terrible Century
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work, by Allen Tate
T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work
by Allen Tate
National Review,
February 7, 1967
, pp. 147-148
[+]
A Torch in the Labyrinth
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Roman Culture: Weapons and the Man, by Garry Wills
Roman Culture: Weapons and the Man
by Garry Wills
National Review,
September 20, 1966
, pp. 938-940
Tradition is Growth
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
December 16, 1961
, p. 417
[+]
The Tradition of Intelligence
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Saddest Story, by Arthur Mizener
The Saddest Story
by Arthur Mizener
National Review,
May 18, 1971
, pp. 539-540
Type's Cast
Hugh Kenner
Joyce and his mechanical muse
The Harpers Monthly,
June 1986
, pp. 58-63
Ulysses
(1980)
Hugh Kenner
1
Review
[+]
Under the Larches of Paradise
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Section: Rock-Drill 85-95 de los Cantares, by Ezra Pound
Section: Rock-Drill 85-95 de los Cantares
by Ezra Pound
The Hudson Review,
Autumn 1956
, pp. 457-465
Understanding Expo
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
October 3, 1967
, pp. 1070-1073
Books, Arts, Manners
Understanding McLuhan
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
November 29, 1966
, pp. 1224-1226
[+]
Unpurged Images
(3 Reviews)
Hugh Kenner
The Letters of W.B. Yeats, by Allan Wade and W.B. Yeats
The Letters of W.B. Yeats
by Allan Wade and W.B. Yeats
The Identity of Yeats
by Richard Ellmann
The Unicorn
by Virginia Moore
The Hudson Review,
Winter 1955
, pp. 609-616
Books Arts & Manners
[+]
Up from Edenism
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Paradigms Lost, by John Simon
Paradigms Lost
by John Simon
National Review,
October 17, 1980
, pp. 1272-1273
Books, Arts & Manners
[+]
Welcome to the Eco Chamber
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco
Foucault's Pendulum
by Umberto Eco
National Review,
January 22, 1990
, p. 46
What Ever Happened to Profanity?
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
January 20, 1978
, pp. 90-91
Books, Arts, Manners
[+]
What More Do You Want?
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Sandburg Range, by Carl Sandburg
The Sandburg Range
by Carl Sandburg
National Review,
March 1, 1958
, p. 209
[+]
Whatever Spins Around
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
New and Collected Poems, by Richard Wilbur
New and Collected Poems
by Richard Wilbur
National Review,
September 2, 1988
, p. 48
When Academe Ran a Fever
Hugh Kenner
The American Spectator,
November 1977
, pp. 10-11
Arts and Letters
[+]
Where Every Prospect Pleases
(2 Reviews)
Hugh Kenner
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction, by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishi...
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein, ...
The Oregon Experiment
by Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, and Shlomo Angel, ...
The Harpers Monthly,
April 1978
, pp. 75-77
Books
[+]
Where the Penty Went
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Waste Land, by T.S. Eliot and Valerie Eliot
The Waste Land
by T.S. Eliot and Valerie Eliot
The New Republic,
November 13, 1971
, pp. 25-27
William Carlos Williams: In Memoriam
Hugh Kenner
National Review,
March 26, 1963
, p. 237
Books, Arts, Manners
[+]
A Winchell Among the Poets
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
The Powers of Poetry, by Gilbert Highet
The Powers of Poetry
by Gilbert Highet
National Review,
August 13, 1960
, p. 86
[+]
A Winchell on Parnassus
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Manic Power, by Jeffrey Meyers
Manic Power
by Jeffrey Meyers
National Review,
December 31, 1987
, p. 46
Books, Arts, Manners
[+]
Wisdom on the Cello
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
To Criticize the Critic, and Other Writings, by T.S. Eliot
To Criticize the Critic, and Other Writings
by T.S. Eliot
National Review,
May 3, 1966
, p. 420
Books, Arts, Manners
[+]
A Word for the Wild Man
(Review)
Hugh Kenner
Waiting for the End, by Leslie A. Fiedler
Waiting for the End
by Leslie A. Fiedler
National Review,
July 28, 1964
, pp. 654-655
[+]
The Word Made Flesch
(Review)
Doreent Hucklesmudge and Hugh Kenner
The ABC of Style, by Rudolf Flesch
The ABC of Style
by Rudolf Flesch
National Review,
June 29, 1965
, pp. 558-560
Books, Arts, Manners
[+]
The World---Gritty, Particular
(2 Reviews)
Hugh Kenner
Letters of James Joyce, Vol. II, by Richard Ellmann and James Joyce
Letters of James Joyce, Vol. II
by Richard Ellmann and James Joyce
Letters of James Joyce, Vol. III
by Richard Ellmann and James Joyce
National Review,
September 5, 1967
, p. 968
Wyndham Lewis
(1954)
Hugh Kenner
2
Reviews,
1
Readable
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