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SEVENTH
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Man's Isolation
in
Kierkegaard,
Dostoevsky,
and Nietzsche
By Ralph HarpfYr.
Mr. Harper
studies man's feeling of isola–
tion from the world around
him-"spiritual homelessness"
-as expressed in the writings
of Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky,
and Nietzsche. He explores
each writer's preoccupation
with man's freedom
to
choose
either eternity or despair.
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OF THE
MIND
Essays on
the Poetry
0/
Wallace Stevens
Edited by Roy Harvey Pearce
and
J.
Hillis MilLer.
Wallace
Stevens' poetry was an at–
tempt
to
reconcile his internal
and external worlds.
It
ex–
presses, in Mr. Pearce's phrase,
"a continuing dialogue between
mind and reality." Twelve dis–
tinguished scholars, among
them Samuel French Morse,
Michel Benamou, and Denis
Donoghue, study the ideas at
work in Stevens' poetry.
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NOTES
NAT HENTOFF tells us that he's
working on a first novel for Viking
and MICHAEL HARRINGTON thot
Macmillan will publish his Acciden.
tal Century late this summer. JAMES
DICKEY teaches in California and
next year goes on a long reading
tour. MICHAEL ROLOFF, who has
translated three
of
Hermann Hesse's
novels for Harper and Row, spent
last year in Ger·many. BOB HAU.
GEN and PHILIP GREENE are hav·
ing their first fiction published in
this issue of PRo Mr. Haugen tells
us that he was born on an Indian
reservation in North Dakota and
that he is skinny and anti·social; Mr.
Greene, who has a BS in Textile
Engineeri ng and a PhD in English,
teaches at Adelphi. Macmillan will
put out LIONEL ABEL's new book,
The Intellectual Adventure of Jean·
Paul Sartre, next year. FRANK KER·
MODE will be in America this fall
giving the Mary Flexner lectures at
Bryn Mawr. When he returns
to
England, he will occupy the Winter·
stoke Chair of English Literature ot
Bristol. GEOFFREY HARTMAN will
be at Cornell next year. GEORGE
KATEB teaches political science at
Amherst; ALVIN KIBEL, English at
Wesleyan. Born and raised in Brook·
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