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...essays, however, are in themselves wonderful, thoughtful examples of young critical thinking at its best. Paul De Man (since lost to Cornell) contributes an essay on Wordsworth and Yeats; he is probably the most rigorous "close reader" of the bunch, and his essay successfully solves the problem which trips up many of his co-authors, making the careful analysis of particular poems yield insights into the writers' general concerns and methods. William Taylor (on his way to Wisconsin), who has the unenviable task of making Parkman's De Salle interesting, also succeeds where others fail, by skillfully combining description...
...little praise for the centuries in-between-the years which produced Samuel Johnson, Tennyson, Wordsworth, and Keats. He does not hestitate to explain why it is that two periods many years apart should arouse similarly favorable responses. Both of the periods he prefers, the Elizabethan and the modern, are known for their experimentation with literary form. And in Dr. Enck's eye, this is a quality in literature to be desired above all others. He is one of those scholars for whom the study of literature is sometimes best described as the study of change...
...talented of The Movement's poets, 40-year-old Philip Larkin (The Less Deceived). Larkin has the happy faculty of rescuing the special tenderness or peculiar anguish of small experiences that everyone has had but no one has bothered to examine. At his best, he is a dwindled Wordsworth in whose ear the ghost of Rilke sometimes whispers. In this little poem, one of Larkin's subtlest, it whispers of-death...
...aware of Oxford, perhaps because Rhodes scholars go there. Few even realize that the reputable university in Cambridge, Mass., was founded by a B.A. (Cantab.) named John Harvard; few could guess that Cambridge is the alma mater of Bacon, Byron, Darwin, Erasmus, Milton, Newton, Spenser, Tennyson, Thackeray, Walpole and Wordsworth. Strong in classics and "PPE" (philosophy, politics, economics), Oxford has dominated Whitehall and Westminster. But now England has a surfeit of politicians and debaters. It needs more scientists and engineers, and so it needs Cambridge...
...present, resting on Zola for a moment, deftly controverting recent critical opinion about the author of Germinal. He was rooted in the cycle of nature and his novels of defeat contain an affirmation of life, invincible and forever, she insisted. Somehow, in the next moment, Wordsworth and Fenimore Cooper had been left far behind, and Miss McCarthy was talking about Marx and Hannah Arendt, the cycle of nature and the encroachment of modern industrial civilization on nature...