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James later regretted his brashness, and still later, U.S. readers did adopt Walt Whitman as a national poet, but the clash between the two men dramatized the perennially split personality of American writing. Critic Philip Rahv has aptly defined it as a clash between "paleface and redskin." This is critical shorthand for the interrelated battles of highbrow v. lowbrow, refined sensibility v. raw energy, the tradition-directed writer v. the self-made writer. The palefaces, e.g., Hawthorne, Melville, James, ruled the 19th century; the redskins, e.g., Dreiser, Anderson, Wolfe, Hemingway, Faulkner, rule the 20th. As the first great chief...
STORIES IN THE MODERN MANNER (282 pp.)-Edited by Philip Rahv and William Phillips-Avon...
...thought it was the finest thing since the dear dead Dial, he said, and he offered to stake it to enough cash to make the Review in fact what John Dos Passos had called it: "The best literary magazine in America." Longtime Co-Editors William Phillips and Philip Rahv told Angel Dowling that they thought the job would take at least $50,000 a year...
Editors Phillips and Rahv, only survivors (both 39 years old) of the crew of young Marxists* who founded the Review in 1934, hoped for an increase in circulation too. Including its new London edition (TIME, March 10), Partisan Review sells only 7,600 copies, at 60?. Now the editors hope to hit 20,000 in the U.S. and Europe. A slightly larger format, more art work (in color) and photographs, regular departments on music, art and the theater, and "letters" from Europe's capitals may help. But Phillips and Rahv plan to keep the Review uncompromisingly a magazine...
...Great Short Novels of Henry James (812 pp.)-Edited by Philip Rahv-Dial...