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Professor Joseph Wood Krutch of Columbia University is willing to agree that this is the Age of the Common Man. But that does not mean that he approves. The trouble is, says Krutch in the current Saturday Review, the Age of the Common Man is rapidly becoming the Age of the Common Denominator...
...SELECTED LETTERS OF THOMAS GRAY (170 pp.)-Edited by Joseph Wood Krutch-Farrar, Sfraus & Young...
...Dread of Poetry. Thereafter, Gray spent much of his time escaping honors. He rejected the post of poet laureate with horror ("I would rather be Serjeant Trumpeter"). To the day of his death (in 1771), he lived in the dread that his poetry would make him look "ridiculous." Editor Krutch considers Gray's letters "deservedly among the most famous which have come down to us"; but this is strictly a scholar's opinion. On the few occasions when Gray kicked up his heels his letters brightened, but for the most part they reflect exactly the noiseless tenor...
...documentary account of the murder trial of Clyde Griffiths in "An American Tragedy." In the best chapter of the book, Matthiessen analyses this novel both in the light of its own time and in relation to the rest of American literature. He ends by agreeing with Joseph Wood Krutch's estimate that it is "the great American novel of our generation...
...literary criticism, the ambitious new "American Men of Letters" series began a restudy of the country's major writers with Joseph Wood Krutch's well-balanced Henry David Thoreau and Emery Neff's Edwin Arlington Robinson. In Nathaniel Hawthorne: the American Years, Robert Cantwell gave an unorthodox interpretation and filled in the background of Hawthorne's time with a rich mass of detail. Randall Stewart's Hawthorne was a more conventional biography...