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THE SWINBURNE
LETTERS
Edited
by
Cecil Y. Lang
Vol. 1, 1854-69; Vol. 2, 1869-75
This edition, when the six vol–
umes are completed, will cover
the period from 1854, when the
poet was 17, until his death in
1909. Five times larger than any
previous collection, these unex–
purgated texts have a great deal
of hitherto unpublished material.
They show that Swinburne, at
his epistolary best, rivals the fin–
est letter writers in the language.
2
vols. $15.00
THE CANKERED MUSE
by Alvin Kernan
This absorbing new volume pre–
sents the first comprehensive
critical theory of satire in the
English Renaissance. Mr. Kernan
considers in detail such non–
dramatic works as Nashe's
Pierce
Penilesse,
Martson's
Scourge of
Villanie,
and Hall's
Virgidemiae
and such dramatic works as
Troilus and Cressida, The Mal–
content,
and
The Duchess of
Malfi;
and he shows the char–
acteristic expressive forms of the
satiric approach to life.
$5.00
THE VISION OF
TRAGEDY
by Richard B. Sewall
"One of the most succinct and
persuasive guides to the nature
of tragic reality that American
scholarship has produced."
-Commonweal
"A brilliant analysis of the nature
of tragedy."-Saturday
Review
"Each chapter is a little jewel, a
miracle of brevity and relevance,
a compact expression of sensitive
comment and, of fresh insight."
-Eliseo Vivas, Yale Review $4.00
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CONTRIBUTORS
RICHARD WOLLHEIM, who
taught philosophy at Columbia
last fall as an exchange profes–
sor from the University of Lon–
don, is the author of a study of
F. H. Bradley, just published by
Penguin.
MAX HAYWARD is the trans–
lator of Doctor Zhivago and is
a Research Fellow at St. An–
thony's College, Oxford.
HAROLD ROSENBERG, whose
book, The Tradition of the New,
was recently published, has just
completed a study of Arshile
Gorki to be brought out this
year by George Braziller. Be–
ginning with this issue Mr.
Rosenberg will be Art Consul–
tant for PRo
JAMES MERRILL's latest collec–
tion of poetry, The Country of
a Thousand Years of Peace, was
published last year by Knopf.
His play, The Bait, will appear
in a collection, Artist's Theater,
edited by Herbert Machiz.
KENNETH KOCH teaches Eng–
lish at Columbia. Grove Press
has just put out his long poem,
Ko, Or a Season on Earth.
GEORGE LlCHTHEIM is at
work on a study of Karl Marx.
FRANK KERMODE, who teaches
at the University of Manchester,
is the author of Romantic Image,
a volume of literary criticism.
HOWARD NEMEROV is in the
English Department at Benning–
ton College.
DAVID FITELSON teaches at
Emory College.
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