JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1961
VOLUME XXVIII, NUMBER 1
CONTENTS
ON THE MODERN ELEMENT IN MODERN LITERATURE,
Lionel Trilling
9
FOUR SPEECHES FROM RACINE'S "PHEDRE," Robert Lowe" 36
POET AND DANCER BEFORE DIAGHILEV, Frank Kermode
48
ROUTE WITH NO NUMBER (verse), W. S. Merwin
76
VILLA D'ESTE, TIVOLI (verse), Donald Lehmkuhl
78
BUDDED OAKS (verse), Patricia Coombs
79
THE DETECTIVE, Jascha Kessler
80
BOOKS
MORALS AND PSYCHOANALYSIS, Selma Fraiberg
109
OTHER PEOPLE'S AFFAIRS, John Thompson
117
VIEWS OF CONRAD, Robert M. Adams
124
POETRY CHRONICLES, Kenneth Koch
130
Marius Bewley
137
IN SUPPORT OF THE FRENCH INTELLECTUALS
144
VARIETY
ENGLISH QUEERDOM, Colin Macinnes
146
CORRESPONDENCE
154