THE VISION OF TRAGEDY
CONTRIBUTORS
by
RICHARD B. SEWALL
Mr. Sewall 's lively and incisive
analysis of the nature of tragedy
penetrates the sense of ancient evil
and the mystery of human suffering
basic to the tragic vision as it is
discovered in
The Book of Job,
Oedipus the King, Doctor Faustus,
King Lear , The Scarlet Letter,
Moby-Dick, The Brothers Karama–
zov,
and
Absalom, Absalom! $4.00
"Each chapter
is
a little jewel, a
miracle of brevity and relevance,
a compact expression of sensitive
comment and of fresh insight."
Eliseo Vivas, The Yale Review
SHELLEY'S MYTHMAKING
by
HAROLD BLOOM
Deriving much from the thought of
Northrup Frye and Martin Buber,
Mr. Bloom has produced both a new
defence of Shelley's poetry and a
sustained attack on the hostile "new
critics" and those scholars who
have seen his poems as thought
dressed in images.
$5.00
Two other books of lasting interest
TRAGIC THEMES IN
WESTERN LITERATURE
edited by Cleanth Brooks
$2.75
OEDIPUS AT THEBES
by Bernard M. W. Knox
$0.00
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UNIVERSITY PRESS
New Haven. Connecticut
JAMES PURDY's new novel Mal–
colm, will be published this Fall by
Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. A col–
lection of his short stories, The
Color of Darkness, came out last
year.
NORMAN PODHORETZ's essay on
Norman Mailer will be included in
his forthcoming book on postwar
fiction.
A. ALVAREZ is our regular London
correspondent. His study of modern
poetry, Stewards of Excellence, was
recently published in this country.
KINGSLEY WIDMER teaches Eng–
lish and Philosophy at San Diego
State College. He has written for
Kenyon Review, New Republic,
Twentieth Century, and other
magazines.
F. W. DUPEE is a frequent contrib–
utor to Partisan Review. He has just
edited the Anchor edition of Trot–
sky's History of the Russian Revolu–
tion.
LEWIS COSER is on the faculty of
Brandeis University. He is an editor
of Dissent.
JOHN WAIN, the English novelist,
poet, and critic, has just returned
home after spending several months
in this country.
STUART HAMPSHIRE is a Fellow
of All Souls' College at Oxford. He
is the author of a book on Spinoza.
HENRY POPKIN teaches English at
Brandeis. He is at work on a study
of the theatre.
