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Levin, an authority on James Joyce and instructor of English 90, has taken the project: "A study of symbolism in American fiction; with particular reference to Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and James." He has already written two books, "The Broken Column: A Study of Romantic Hellenism" and "James Joyce: A Critical Introduction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guggenheim Award Made | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

Britain's "Sagittarius" (real name Olga Katzin) has a nasty knack of rhyming world political events into their proper perspective. Her parody of Poe's The Raven was given documentation last week by events in Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Nevermore | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

...solid character, who always delivers when he gives his word. They know he has never had real ambitions outside The Bronx-that he loves it from the zoo (which is one of the world's five or six greatest) to the Yankee Stadium, to the Edgar Allan Poe cottage, to the National Hall of Fame (in which are no native Bronxites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Double Trouble | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

Artist Albright is not only a painstaking artist; he is also one of the most original painters the U. S. has produced. A "literary" artist, as his titles show, he owes little to any modern school of painting, more to the macabre spirit of Poe, the methodical realism of Dreiser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U. S. ART: ALBRIGHT | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

When in jail, Nehru finds that "spinning on the charka (spinning wheel) and weaving niwar" (cotton webbing) "are delightfully soothing." Yet on the death of his father he does not quote the Vedas, but Edgar Allan Poe: "Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor even unto death utterly, save by the weakness of his feeble will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: East Meets West | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

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