THE PERMANENCE
OF YEATS
Ed., JAMES HALL
&
MARTIN STEINMANN
A selection of the best criticism on Yeats, by such famous critics
as T. S. Eliot, Edmund Wilson, John Crowe Ransom, Cleanth
Brooks, R . P. Blackmur, Allen Tate, A. Norman J effares, and
many others. Enables readers fully to understand Yeats's growth and
the difficult aspects of his thought.
$5.00
THE PARADOX
of
OSCAR WILDE
GEORGE WOODCOCK probes
deeply into the contradictions
in
Wilde's schizophrenic nature. " . . .
will add much to our understand–
ing of a gifted and tragic figure."
HAROLD NICOLSON,
London Ob–
server.
$3.50
THE RAMPARTS
WE GUARD
R. M. MocIVER,
author of
The
Web of Government,
writes a
ringing defense of democracy,
shows its vast superiority in cop–
ing with our complex civilization,
points out the dangers that threaten
it and the ways in which we may
preserve it.
$3.00
THE REAL
SHAKESPEARE
A Counterblost to Comme ntators, by
WILLIAM BLISS.
A fascinating, as
well as witty and original, study
of what we actually know of
Shakespeare and his work.
It
clears
away much extravagant interpre–
tation that has accumulated. $3.00
John Masefield's
ON THE HILL
Masefield in his best poetic vein
as a teller of tales in ballad or
narrative style. I ncluded are 24
folk stories, sea ballads, ghost
stories, extravaganzas, poems from
the Spanish, translations from old
French-all published here for the
first time.
$1.50
MACMILLAN
