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John Crowe Ransom: "One of the most elegant and individual war correspondents who ever existed of our world's old war between power and love . . . Generations of the future will be reading his poems page by page with Wyatt, Campion, Marvell and Mother Goose."
Empson became the grand panjandrum of the New Criticism, which claimed that a work of literature could best be understood by a detailed analysis of its language. Other critics have had profounder things to say about literature than Empson, but in line-by-line analysis no one can match him...
The high point of the issue is Stephen Sandy's poetry. At his best, as in He Wins!, Sandy writes with clarity, wit, and technical virtuosity. He has improved a great deal since his last appearance in print, over a year ago. He has become much more concerned with the...
How earnestly he wins Success' own Sweet cadillac.... moves on to describe the poem's unnamed character returning home, and begins to discuss his garden and his contentment with his mode of living. As one reads along, however, one realizes that not only is the poet describing in almost bitter...
*As in Andrew Marvell's (1621-78) "To His Coy Mistress": Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime . . . And you should if you please refuse Till the conversion of the Jews.