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B. H. HAGGIN
subjected to since the summer of 1955 by Mr. McWilliams,
by you, and by Mr. Hatch. In recent weeks I had been ex–
pecting to tell you that you could either free me of Mr.
Hatch's weekly pipsqueakeries or engage another music critic;
and I will say now that
The Nation
of Kirstein, McWilliams
and Hatch is nothing I care to write for. . . . I cannot think
of anything I would wish to discuss further with Mr. Mc–
Williams, Mr. Hatch or yourself.
The result was that during the remaining few weeks of my connection
with
The Nation
Mr. Hatch withheld his editorial guidance, and
my
columns appeared, once more, as I had written them-with one ex–
ception: he refused to publish more than the first paragraph of
my
review of the collection
Olin Downes on Music .
And whereas New–
man, after his one unpleasant experience, operated as music critic .of
the
Sunday Times
with no further interference, the outcome of my year
and a half of unpleasantness was the statement at the end of
my
record review in
The Nation
of March 30, that this concluded
my
writing in that column.
Aesthetic and Myth
in
the Poetry of Keats
By
Walter
Ii.
Evert
The nature and .intensity of
Keal~'s
search for a viable aesthetic truth is
traced in this study of his changing
attitude toward the poetic imagination.
In tracing the evolution of Keats's
artistic thought, Mr. Evert ·brings a
fresh approach to many of Keats's
poems. He discusses' all of Keats's
poetry which has relevance to the
central problem of his artistic thought
and development.
308
pages.
$6.50
Dryden's Heroic Drama
/3ty
Arthur
C.
Kirsch
The author argues that Dryden's
heroic drama should not be treated as
a single unit, as it so often has been.
H e shows that Dryden's earlier rhymed
plays are based on the dramaturgical
premises of Fletcherian and Cavalier
tragicomedy, and that his later plays
are oriented toward the new tradition
of sentimental drama d eveloped in the
late 1670's by Otway and Lee. Mr.
Kirsch demonstrates a comparable
change in Dryden's theory of heroic
drama and analyzes Dryden's concep·
tion of heroism..
164
pages.
$4.50
Princeton University Press
