({MAY SARTON
has come into her maturity
as a lyric poet with
The Land
of
Silel.~e
AND OTHER POEMS
"SHE is one of the very few
who are born into each age
to
bring it that freshness of in–
sight, that mingled delight of
newness and of assent which it
is in the gift of the artist alone
to
give."-VICTORIA LINOOLN
This collection of
56
lyrics and
a group of sonn
ts
bears the
stamp of an individuality which
owes nothing
to
current poetic
poses. Her last book of poems
was described in the
Saturday
Review
as "an achievement of
the first quality." THE LAND
OF
SILENCE can only rein–
force this opinion.
$2.50
TheEnglish
Novel
By Dorothy Van Ghent
EIGHTEEN brilliant, closely
reasoned essays discussing
the outstanding masterpieces of
En~lish
fiction (and
Don
Quw;ote)
in a search to define
that sp,ecial essence of great–
ness. 'I recommend this book
warmly as one of the most ex–
haustive, imaginative and valu–
able studies of the novel yet
written."
-ALBERT J. GUERARD, JR.
$4.00
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CONTRIBUTORS
JACQUES BARZUN has published
English versions of Diderot's Rio
meau's Nephew, Becque's La Parisi–
enne and Mirbeau's The Epidemic.
Two more of his translations will
appear shortly: a volume of New
Berlioz Letters and Flaubert's Dic–
tionary of Accepted Ideas.
FRANCIS FERGUSSON's most re–
cent book is Dante's Drama of the
Mind. He is now teaching at Rut·
gers University.
EDWIN MUIR is the well known
English poet and critic. His Col–
lected P·oems: 1921-1951 were pub–
lished in this country last year.
G.
L.
ARNOLD is on the editorial
staff of The Twentieth Century in
London. His political writings have
appeared here in Commentary, Th,
New Leader and elsewhere.
NICOLA CHIAROMONTE is pres·
ently living in Rome, and writing
drama criticism for the Ital ian paper
II Mondo.
R. W. FLINT is a young critic
whose work has appeared in the
Kenyon Review, the Hudson Re–
view and elsewhere.
ERNEST JONES teaches English at
Queens College. He was formerly
fiction critic for The Nation.
An important American poet
THEODORE
ROETHKE
demonstr~tes
his
g re~t
pc'Wer,
r~nge,
d epth. a nd viqor of imagery in this
collection of hIS be,t poems.
THE WAKING
POEMS 1933·1953
IIA
poet of enormous talent, one
whose influence may prove crucial to
poetry in Engli'h."-The Hopkins Review
At all book,ellers $3.
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