Index

The New Criterion

Volume 18

September 1999 – June 2000

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Allen, Brooke

• Oh, to be in England, a review of Anglomania by Ian Buruma (BOOKS), Sept., 65;
• A universal region: the fiction of Eudora Welty, upon the publication of the Library of America edition, Oct., 35;
• Silence, exile, cunning, reviews of A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle, The Last Life by Claire Messud & Lovers for a Day: New and Collected Stories by Ivan Klima (FICTION CHRONICLE), Nov., 60;
• Terminal self-pity, a review of ’Tis, by Frank McCourt (BOOKS), Dec., 71;
• Emotional vampire, a review of Illumination & Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers, edited by Carlos L. Dews (BOOKS), Jan., 70;
• Clear, affecting, subtle, a review of The Rose Garden by Maeve Brennan (BOOKS), Feb., 72;
• Morally handicapped, a review of Diana Mosley by Jan Dalley (BOOKS), Apr., 71;
• Meditations, good & bad, reviews of Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje, Losing Nelson: A Novel by Barry Unsworth & Being Dead by Jim Crace (FICTION CHRONICLE), May, 63

Arkin, Marc M.

• Saturated with the word, a review of American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King, Jr., edited by Michael Warner (BOOKS), Oct., 67;
• Tolle, lege, a review of Augustine Through the Ages: An Encyclopedia, edited by Allan D. Fitzgerald (BOOKS), Mar., 70

Azevedo, Neil

• Those who stay (Poem), Sept., 36;
• Marco Polo (Poem), Sept., 37

Bernstein, Jeremy

• The life and times of Fanny Burney, Nov., 31

Berry, J. Duncan

• Soane’s tense balance, a review of John Soane: An Accidental Romantic by Gillian Darley (BOOKS), Nov., 74

Bowman, James

• Schlock “Talk,” on Tina Brown’s Talk (THE MEDIA), Sept., 56;
• Stupidity at work, on censorship, Francine Prose & Jedediah Purdy (THE MEDIA), Oct., 54;
• Childish wish-fulfillment, on the context and content of television (THE MEDIA), Nov., 54;
• A child’s view of the world, concerning Naomi Wolf and feminism’s failings (THE MEDIA), Dec., 55;
• Superior soap opera, on The Sopranos (THE MEDIA), Jan., 58;
• Against linguistic libertarianism, on proper usage (THE MEDIA), Feb., 63;
• “The candor pander,” on personal authenticity and the presidential race (THE MEDIA), Mar., 53;
• The narrative imperative, on triviality over substance in presidential campaign coverage (THE MEDIA), Apr., 63;
• The news from Olympus, on public discourse in America (THE MEDIA), May, 58;
• The politics of posturing, on gun control and the anti-IMF demonstrations (THE MEDIA), June, 59

Carduff, Christopher

• The triumph of Nirad Chaudhuri (NOTEBOOK), Oct., 76

Coleman, Alexander

• ¿O plomo o plata? (LETTER FROM MEXICO CITY), Dec., 36;
• Rosy nights at the opera, on Richard Strauss by Tim Ashley, Richard Strauss by Matthew Boyden, Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma by Michael Kennedy, The Life of Richard Strauss by Bryan Gilliam & the revival of Der Rosenkavalier at the Metropolitan Opera, Mar., 23;
• Life in Basqueland, on The Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky (NOTEBOOK), Apr., 85;
• Quiet alarm, deep foreboding, on music, right-wing politics & Jörg Haider (LETTER FROM VIENNA), May, 41

Coleman, Peter

• Supporting the indispensable, a review of Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders (BOOKS), Sept., 62

Cookson, William

• Ezra Pound (Letter), Oct., 79

Dalrymple, Theodore

• Gooseberries, reflections on Chekhov & the author’s father (NOTEBOOK), Nov., 77;
• Bolívar’s platter, on La Bandeja de Bolívar, an installation by Juan Manuel Echavarria (NOTEBOOK), Mar., 77;
• Tiresias redux, a review of Crossing by Deirdre N. McCloskey (BOOKS), Apr., 68;
• Exposing shallowness, a review of Bodies of Inscription by Marge DeMello (BOOKS), June, 74

Daniels, Anthony

• Literary Victimhood, regarding victimhood and its literary cachet, Sept., 4;
• The perils of activism: Ken Saro-Wiwa, Jan., 4;
• W. Somerset Maugham: the pleasures of a master, Feb., 23

Dean, Paul

• Arts of power, a review of The History of the Reign of King Henry the VII by Francis Bacon, edited by Brian Vickers (BOOKS), Nov., 66;
• At the point of extinction, concerning secondary education in England (NOTEBOOK), Dec., 78;
• Seeing is revealing, a review of The Bible and Its Rewritings by Piero Boitani (BOOKS), Jan., 74;
• At the point of extinction, reply to John Fitzgerald (Letter), Feb., 80;
• Lightening the load, a review of The Oxford Book of English Verse, edited by Christopher Ricks (BOOKS), Mar., 73;
• The dark horse, a review of World Enough and Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell by Nicholas Murray (BOOKS), June, 78

Derbyshire, John

• Sub specie aeternitatis: J. F. Powers, 1917-1999 (NOTEBOOK), Sept., 75;
• The conquering zero, a review of The Nothing That Is by Robert Kaplan (BOOKS), Oct., 74;
• Serious about books, a review of The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski (BOOKS), Nov., 71;
• Rudyard Kipling & the god of things as they are, Mar., 5

Downing, Ben

• The New Parnassians (Poem), Oct., 42;
• The Civil Wars (Poem), Oct., 43;
• Tempocide (Poem), Oct., 44;
• Lightkeepers, a review of The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst (BOOKS), Nov., 73;
• Martin du Gard’s monster in a box, a consideration of the author and his unfinished novel Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort, Apr., 27;
• Shorter Notice, a review of In Siberia by Colin Thubron (BOOKS), June, 80

Epstein, Daniel Mark

• The passion of Walker Evans, considering the retrospective exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the new biography by James Mellow, Mar., 14

Epstein, Joseph

• Father knows best, a review of Between Father and Son: Family Letters by V. S. Naipaul (BOOKS), Mar., 58;
• A hero of culture, on Henry James: A Life in Letters, edited by Philip Horne, June, 12

Ferguson, Stuart

• A humane despot, a review of Napoleon III: A Life by Fenton Bresler (BOOKS), Dec., 74

Fitzgerald, John

• At the point of extinction (Letter), Feb., 79

Franklin, James

• Last bastion of reason, a review of For and Against Method by Imre Lakatos and Paul Feyerabend (BOOKS), May, 74;
• Thomas Kuhn’s irrationalism, considering Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times by Steve Fuller, June, 29

Friedman, Paula

• Without dogma, a review of Reputation of the Tongue by William Logan (BOOKS), Jan., 76

Fromkin, David

• Atatürk’s creation, upon the publication of Andrew Mango’s biography, Apr., 14

Greenberg, Martin

• Howard’s rendering, a review of Richard Howard’s translation of Stendhal’s The Charterhouse of Parma (BOOKS), Jan., 63;
• Hazlitt & Wordsworth: the language of poetry, on Hazlitt’s adversarial relationship with Wordsworth, Feb., 10;
• Howard’s rendering (Letter), Feb., 79

Gross, John

• Stunts & consequences, an update on the culture wars in Britain (LONDON JOURNAL), Oct., 46;
• Modishness & Blairishness, on mayoral politics in London (LONDON JOURNAL), Apr., 38;
• The little brass gods, on coarseness (LONDON JOURNAL), June, 38

Hadas, Rachel

• Reading David Ferry’s poems (Poem), Feb., 30;
• On the other hand (Poem), Feb., 31

Hart, Jeffrey

• Mark Van Doren remembered (NOTEBOOK), June, 86

Himmelfarb, Gertrude

• Lord Acton: in pursuit of first principles, on Lord Acton by Roland Hill, June, 21

Hollander, Paul

• Vast deception, a review of See No Evil: Literary Cover-ups and Discoveries of the Soviet Camp Experience by Dariusz Tolczyk (BOOKS), Feb., 75

Jacobs, Laura

• Tchaikovsky at the millennium, on performances of Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty, Sept., 21

James, Merlin

• Choreographed artifice, a review of Balthus: A Biography by Nicholas Fox Weber (BOOKS), Jan., 66;
• Recognizing the real thing, a review of Eyewitnesses: Reports from an Art World in Crisis by Jed Perl (BOOKS), June, 71

Johnson, Lawrence A.

• Opera note, on A View from the Bridge by William Bolcom, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago (MUSIC), Jan., 55;
• A treasure trove of conducting, on videos of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from the 1950s, conducted by Reiner, Szell, Stokowski, Monteux, Munch & Hindemith (MUSIC), Mar., 47

Jones, Reilly & Kerri Jones

• Grotesque liberties, on a Portland Opera performance of Handel’s Giulio Cesare (Letter), Jan., 80

Judge, Mark Gauvreau

• Shorter notice, reviews of The Crisis Reader, The Opportunity Reader & The Messenger Reader, all edited by Kathryn Wilson (BOOKS), June, 80

Kane, Paul

• Untitled (Poem), Oct., 45

Kimball, Roger

• Exhibition note, on George Stubbs in the collection of Paul Mellon, at the Yale Center for British Art (ART), Sept., 52;
• A craving for reality: T. S. Eliot today, on Eliot’s reputation & influence, Oct., 18;
• The elephant in the gallery, or the lessons of “Sensation,” on Sensation: Young British Artists From the Saatchi Collection, at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Nov., 4;
• Exhibition note, on Renoir to Rothko: The Eye of Duncan Phillips, at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (ART), Dec., 51;
• Little god, big Wilson, on God’s Funeral by A. N. Wilson, Feb., 4;
• “Strange seriousness”: discovering Daumier, a consideration of the artist upon viewing Daumier, 1808-1879, at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Apr., 20;
• Barzun on the West, on From Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun, June, 5

Kramer, Hilton

• Abstraction in America: the first generation, on Marsden Hartley and Arthur Dove, Oct., 10;
• The fiasco of “The American Century,” on The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Nov., 9;
• Reflections on the end of the century, on how we view the crimes of Communism, Dec., 4;

Kunitz, Daniel

• Exhibition notes, on Saul Steinberg: Drawing into Being at Pace Wildenstein, New York & Robert Longo at Dorfman Projects, New York (ART), Dec., 53;
• Exhibition notes, on Naum Gabo: Pioneer of Abstract Sculpture at PaceWildenstein, New York & Milton Avery: Edge of Abstraction at Knoedler & Company, New York (ART), Jan., 49;
• Exhibition notes, on Angelo Ippolito: A Selection of Paintings and Works on Paper at the New York Studio School & Alfred H. Maurer: Aestheticism to Modernism at Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York (ART), Feb., 48;
• Gallery chronicle, on Frantisek Vobecky: Photomontages 1935-1938 at Ubu Gallery, New York, Pasted Pictures: Collage and Abstraction in the 20th Century at Knoedler & Company, New York, Marsden Hartley: Drawings at Kraushaar Galleries, New York & C. R. W. Nevinson: The Twentieth Century at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (ART), Apr., 53;
• Gallery chronicle, on A State of Seeing: Drawings of John Heliker at Kraushaar Galleries, New York, Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art at AXA Gallery, New York & Thomas Nozkowski: New Paintings, at the Max Protetch Gallery, New York (ART), May, 50;
• Exhibition notes, on Christopher Wilmarth: Every Other Shadow had a Song to Sing at the Robert Miller Gallery, New York & Francis Picabia: Late Paintings at the Michael Werner Gallery, New York (ART), June, 50

Lewis, Michael J.

• The American view of landscape, Apr., 4

Lewis, Tess

• Between head & heart: Penelope Fitzgerald’s novels, Mar., 29

Logan, William

• No Mercy, reviews of Blood, Tin, Straw by Sharon Olds, The Breakage by Glyn Maxwell, The Mercy by Philip Levine, The Chinaman by David Mamet & The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990 by Joe Bolton (VERSE CHRONICLE), Dec., 60;
• Swans (Poem), Jan., 33;
• Samphire (Poem), Jan., 34;
• Deceit (Poem), Jan., 35;
• The river (Poem), Jan., 36;
• The way of all flesh, reviews of Mayflies: New Poems and Translations by Richard Wilbur, Boss Cupid by Thom Gunn, Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson, Tiepolo’s Hound by Derek Walcott, Swarm by Jorie Graham & Things and Flesh by Linda Gregg (VERSE CHRONICLE), June, 63

Lyons, Donald

• Reply to William Cookson (Letter), Oct., 80;
• Willa Cather’s “The Professor’s House,” Jan., 10

Mermelstein, David

• Valhalla by the Bay, on Wagner’s Ring, at the San Francisco Opera (MUSIC), Sept., 53;
• The great ghastly, on The Great Gatsby, at the Metropolitan Opera (MUSIC), Feb., 57;
• Concert note, on baritone Thomas Hampson in recital (MUSIC), Mar., 51;
• Opera note, on Cold Sassy Tree by Carlisle Floyd, at the Houston Grand Opera (MUSIC), June, 57

Meyers, Jeffrey

• Nubile Savage, a review of True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir by Ernest Hemingway (BOOKS), Sept., 68;
• Iris Murdoch: a memoir, Nov., 22;
• Fallen angel, a review of Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare (BOOKS), Mar., 62;
• What the monsters know, a consideration of James Dickey upon the publication of Crux: The Letters of James Dickey & James Dickey: The World as a Lie by Henry Hart (BOOKS), May, 69

Montebello, Philippe de

• Paul Verlaine (Letter), Sept., 80

Morrone, Francis

• Fantasy island, on New York: A Documentary Film, directed by Ric Burns (ARCHITECTURE), Feb., 51

Naves, Mario

• Summer in the city’s museums, on summer exhibitions (ART), Sept., 49;
• Exhibition notes, on Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (ART), Jan., 48

Nordlinger, Jay

• Small encomia, on recent performances by Mitsuko Uchida, Emanuel Ax & Evgeny Kissin (MUSIC), Jan., 52;
• A tale of two prodigies, on recent performances by Joshua Bell and Anne-Sophie Mutter (MUSIC), Feb., 60;
• Barenboim at Carnegie Hall (MUSIC), Apr., 58;
• Concert note, on Ignat Solzhenitsyn with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (MUSIC), Apr., 62;
• Looking about, on recent performances by Deborah Voigt and Susan Graham (MUSIC), May, 54;
• Concert note, on Martha Argerich at Carnegie Hall (MUSIC), May, 56;
• The Philadelphia Sound at 100, on the centennial set of CDs issued by the orchestra (MUSIC), June, 53

NOTES & COMMENTS

• The Pew’s five-year plan for bureaucratizing the arts, Sept., 1;
• Mega-museum vs. art museum, Sept., 2;
• Boycott the SAT, on affirmative action and the Educational Testing Service, Oct., 1;
• PBS DNC?, on the political neutrality of Public Broadcasting, Oct., 3;
• Better late . . ., on “The Decline and Fall of Literature,” Andrew Delbanco’s New York Review of Books article, Nov., 1;
• Alexandre Kojève, KGB spy, Nov., 2;
• Remembering the Cold War, Dec., 1;
• We told you so, on “Critics Say Emphasis on Diversity Squelches Basic Learning” from the Associated Press, Dec., 2;
• Rename the Turner Prize, noting recent winners of the Turner Prize, Dec., 3;
• Postscript to “Sensation,” on Sensation: Young British Artists From the Saatchi Collection, at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Jan., 1;
• Patterns of pedagogic abuse, on recent scandals in public education, Jan., 2;
• Oh, the poor, innocent child, on Schools Are Not The Answer, James Traub’s New York Times Magazine article, Feb., 1;
• “The Smithsonian of sex,” on plans for a New York Museum of Sex, Feb., 3;
• Welcome aboard, on “Why I am Really a Progressive” from the New Statesman, Mar., 1;
• Gray’s goulash, discussing John Gray’s essay on John Stuart Mill from The Times Literary Supplement, Mar., 3;
• Science & human nature, considering Bill Joy’s article in Wired on the dangers of technology, Apr., 1;
• Dull, tedious, boring, on the Whitney Biennial, Apr., 3;
• The future of taboo, on the growing insensibility to television violence, May, 1;
• Backward at “The Forward,” on the forced resignation of Seth Lipsky from The Forward, May, 2;
• Anthony Powell, 1905-2000, David Pryce-Jones’s elegy for the author, May, 3;
• Poetry chronicle, on the Spring 2000 “Poetry Issue” of the Paris Review, May, 4;
• The New Criterion Poetry Prize, June, 1;
• “They’re wanton,” on the violence of rock music, June, 1;
• Penelope Fitzgerald, 1916-2000, a friend remembers the English writer, June, 3

Ormsby, Eric

• Jorge Luis Borges & the plural I, on the Viking centennial edition of his works, Nov., 14;
• Flypaper for ghosts, a review of Diaries 1899-1941 by Robert Musil (BOOKS), Mar., 66

Page, Tim

• Introduction to “Letters by Dawn Powell to Edmund Wilson,” Sept., 10

Powell, Dawn

• Letters by Dawn Powell to Edmund Wilson, an excerpt from Selected Letters of Dawn Powell, Sept., 10

Prunty, Wyatt

• Mole (Poem), May, 40

Pryce-Jones, David

• Remembering Milovan Djilas, on the Yugoslav anti-Communist, Oct., 4;
• Unlimited nastiness, a review of The Vices of Integrity: E. H. Carr 1892-1982 by Jonathan Haslam (BOOKS), Dec., 68;
• He told us so, a review of Reflections on a Ravaged Century, by Robert Conquest (BOOKS), Feb., 69;
• Anthony Powell, 1905-2000, May, 3

Rollyson, Carl

• The will & the way, a review of In America: A Novel by Susan Sontag (BOOKS), Apr., 80;
• Eager to hear & tell, a review of Selected Letters of Rebecca West, edited by Bonnie Kime Scott (BOOKS), May, 78

Ruark, Gibbons

• Little porch at night (Poem), Feb., 29

Ruden, Sarah

• Villanelle of the hidden life (Poem), Mar., 37;
• To my dear parents (Poem), June, 36;
• Things (Poem), June, 37

Schwartz, Stephen

• Poseur poser, reviews of Shadows, Fire, Snow: The Life of Tina Modotti by Clarkson N. Potter & Tina Modotti: A Life by Pino Cacucci (BOOKS), Oct., 70;
• Muddling through in Bosnia, on the situation in Sarajevo (Letter from Sarajevo), Feb., 32;
• Five Yugoslav classics, an examination of work by Kis, Andric, Krleza, Selimovic & Crnjanski, May, 15

Shapiro, Harvey

• Brooklyn (Poem), Nov., 42;
• Prologue (Poem), Dec., 34

Shapiro, Norman

• Paul Verlaine (Letter), Sept., 79

Simon, John

• Reply to Norman Shapiro and Philippe de Montebello (Letter), Sept., 80;
• A great, baggy monster: Rilke’s “Duino Elegies,” on William Gass’s Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation, Jan., 17

Simpson, Louis

• The owner of the house (Poem), May, 38

Skloot, Floyd

• Dialysis (Poem), Dec., 35

Slavitt, David R.

• Moses (Poem), Sept., 35

Smith, William Jay

• Multicultural mishmash, a review of The New Oxford Book of Children’s Verse, edited by Neil Philip (BOOKS), Sept., 72

Spires, Elizabeth

• Reprieve, reprise (Poem), Nov., 39;
• White curtain (Poem), Nov., 41

Steyn, Mark

• Desensitized beyond belief, on Neil LaBute’s Bash: Latter-Day Plays (THEATER), Sept., 38;
• Transatlantic notes, British theater in New York & London (THEATER), Oct., 49;
• Lowered expectations, on Brian Friel’s Give Me Your Answer, Do! & David Crane’s Epic Proportions (THEATER), Nov., 43;
• Badly awry, on Kiss Me, Kate, James Joyce’s The Dead & Noel Coward (THEATER), Dec., 41;
• Stephen, Edna & the sheikh, on Putting it Together, Dame Edna’s Royal Tour & Corpus Christi (THEATER), Jan., 37;
• Two cheers for the middlebrow, on The Cradle Will Rock & Amadeus (THEATER), Feb., 37;
• Mae days, Mae West on the New York stage (THEATER), Mar., 42;
• Out of the humor business, on The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife & The Altruists (THEATER), Apr., 41;
• Period decadence, emotional truths, reviews of James Baldwin: A Soul on Fire, Copenhagen & two versions of The Wild Party (THEATER), May, 45;
• Waddling toward the edge, reviews of Wake Up and Smell the Coffee & Comic Potential (THEATER), June, 41

Stove, R. J.

• The Saint-Saëns enigma, on Camille Saint-Saëns: A Life of Unequalled Achievement by Brian Rees & Saint-Saëns: A Critical Biography by Stephen Studd, Jan., 26

Teichman, Jenny

• Mary Warnock: the uses & abuses of philosophy, Dec., 26

Thaw, E. V.

• A tragic figure, a review of From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky by Matthew Spender (BOOKS), Oct., 64

Tillinghast, Richard

• Derek Mahon: exile & stranger, a consideration of the Irish poet, Sept., 29;
• The alley behind Ocean Drive (Poem), Mar., 38;
• Exilium (Poem), Mar., 40;
• Seamus Heaney: redistributing the field, a consideration of Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996, May, 31

Watman, Max

• Shorter notice, a review of The New Sweet Style by Vassily Aksyonov (BOOKS), Apr., 82

Weiner, Lauren

• The pilgrim returns, a review of Five Sisters: The Langhornes of Virginia by James Fox (BOOKS), Apr., 76

Wilkin, Karen

• Sculpture in the Tuileries, on the sculpture installation in the Tuileries (ART), Sept., 43;
• Ingres at the Metropolitan, a review of Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), Nov., 48;
• New thoughts about the Renaissance in Venice, on Renaissance Venice and the North: Crosscurrents in the Time of Bellini, Dürer, Titian, at Palazzo Grassi, Venice (ART), Dec., 46;
• Rethinking modernism, on Modernstarts: People, Places, Things, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (ART), Jan., 42;
• Two views of Caravaggio, on Caravaggio: A Life by Helen Langdon & M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio by Peter Robb (ART), Feb., 42;
• Tilman Riemenschneider at the Met, on Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), Apr., 46;
• Roman holiday, on The Splendor of 18th-Century Rome, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, May, 24;
• British invasion, on exhibitions by Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff & Craigie Aitchison (ART), June, 46

Wilson, Robley

• In summer, nothing happens (Poem), Dec., 32;
• Alone in the house (Poem), June, 35

Windschuttle, Keith

• Puritans & destiny, a review of The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America by Kevin Phillips (BOOKS), Oct., 60;
• Was World War I necessary?, upon the publication of The First World War by John Keegan & The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson, Dec., 9;
• Rewriting the history of the British Empire, a consideration of the newly published Oxford History of the British Empire, May, 5

Winegarten, Renee

• Women & politics: Madame Roland, Oct., 27

Yezzi, David

• A profligate’s reserve, reviews of My Dog Tulip & My Father & Myself by J. R. Ackerley (BOOKS), Nov., 68;
• Thomas Hardy & American poetry, reflections on the lasting influence of Hardy’s poetry, Dec., 17;
• Epithalamium (Poem), Apr., 34;
• Casco Passage (Poem), Apr., 36;
• Shorter notice, a review of Demons Don’t by Robert Conquest (BOOKS), June, 80