TRAGIC THEMES IN
WESTERN LITERATURE
Edited
with an introduction
by
Cleanth
Brooks
seven essays ranging in subject from
Sophocles
to
T. S. Eliot, renewing our
perception of the masterpieces with
.which they deal and demonstrating the
Qultimate oneness of man." Contribu–
Cora
include
Bernard
Knox, Chauncey
B. Tinker, Henri Peyre, Maynard Mack,
and
Louis
Martz.
$2.75
THE SPANISH BACKGROUND
OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
Slanl,y T.
Williams
The
first
com–
plete
definition of one of the great
Continental influences upon American
Uterature from the seventeenth century
to
the present day, featuring the "Span–
lJh
biographies" of eight men of let–
ters:
Irving, Ticknor: Prescott, Bryant,
Longfellow,
Loweu,
Harte,
and
Howells.
Illustrated
Two Volum,s $10.00
DRYDEN AND THE
ART OF TRANSLATION
WIUiam
Prost
An examination on three
leVels
of Dryden's nondramatic verse:
aJ
~etry,
as representations of their
origmals, and as part of the literature
of the English Augustan age.
$3.50
G~RMAN
LITERARY
INFLUENCES ON THE
AMERICAN
TI.lANCENDENTALISTS. 1810-40
SttMUj M. Vog"l
German scholarahip
among the Transcendentalists them–
selves
forms the major part of this
Rudy of their profound debt to German
literature, language, criticism, and phil–
osophy.
$4.00
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CONI't
CONTRIBUTORS
ANDRE MALRAUX's most recent
work to appear in English is the
monumental Voices of Silence, pub–
lished here in 1953.
SONYA RUDIKOFF, who lives in
Hanover, New Hamrshire, is a
frequent contributor
0
reviews and
art criticism to PR and other maga–
zines.
MICHAEL HAMBURGER, a well–
known critic and the translator of
Holderlin, Kleist, and other Ger–
man writers, lives in london.
ISAAC BABEL, one of the greatest
modern short-story writers, is pre–
sumed to have died in Russia in
the 1930s, a victim of the Great
Purge.
HANS MEYERHOFF teaches phil–
osophy at the University of South–
ern California.
MARY McCARTHY is now abroad
working on a new novel, to appear
in the fall of this ye"r.
ELIZABETH HARDWICK's second
novel, The Simple Truth, was pub–
fished this winter.
G. S. FRASER is a Scottish poet
and critic, who writes regularly for
The New Statesman and other
periodicals in london.
WILLIAM S. POSTER has published
fiction and criticism in PR, Com–
mentary and elsewhere.
We are sorry to tell our
readers of the loss of one of
our most valued contributors,
Robert Warshow, who died
in New York City on March
18, 1955, after
II
brief ill–
ness. Robert Warshow was
thirty-seven; he was on the
. staff of Commentary, and had
been writing for PR since
19%.
