Word: ins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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*Given by the Goncourt Academy, founded in memory of Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt (1822-1896) and his brother, Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt (1830-1870), collaborating novelists, historians and authors of the famed Goncourt Journals.
Published in the U. S. are one literary annual and one semi-annual of proved vitality. They are New Directions in Prose & Poetry, published by New Directions in Norfolk, Conn., and Twice A Year, a Semi-Annual Journal of Literature, The Arts and Civil Liberties, published by Twice A Year...
In October the fourth annual New Directions anthology came out with its usual preface by its rich (steel), shrewd 25-year-old editor, James Laughlin IV, who puts it together in a remodeled barn on his uncle's Connecticut estate. "We are drifting into an era of journalese," warned...
¶ A new translation, fully competent, lucid and unpretentious, of the French Poet Rimbaud's famed Season in Hell. Translator Delmore Schwartz kept in English all that dispassionate English can keep of Rimbaud's poetry-everything, that is, but the essential harshness and resonance of the original.
¶ Solider stuff: a dollar reprint of William Carlos Williams' In the American Grain. Even for readers who turn up their collars at Williams' sprinkling verses, this book of prose sketches on episodes from American history, first published in 1925 and long out of print, should be a...