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...goes to Solovyev chiefly for the light which he sheds on Tolstoy, his inveterate opponent in religion, and on Dostoievsky. All three men must be studied if one wishes to understand the intellectual life of Tsarist Russia at the end of the XIXth century, which was dominated by Pan-Slavism and religiosity, with unperceived but strong currents of Marxism and anarchism. Solovyev's "Plato" first appeared in 1898, two years before his death, and it served to reinforce the philosophical opposition to materialism and positivism. Such disciples as he now retains are emigres in Paris and Prague. Bolshevism has swept...
...guess, were known to the Russian intelligentsia, even if the knowledge was gained through French intermediaries, and Shakespere, likewise, as the whole history of criticism shows, is too great ever to be altogether ignored anywhere for long; he came into his own in Russia at the beginning of the XIXth century, when the Russian General, Ivan Alexandrovitch Velyaminov made a prose translation of "Othello" from the French version of Ducia...
...explain and to applaud. So one must really be cautious in his demolition; Picasso, for example, would not be Picasso if he were not privy to certain secrets unknown by Giotto. The attention paid to him is only superficially due to a "justifiable reaction from the ideas of the XIXth century, and above all a reaction from the camera." Understanding of Picasso is like understanding of the Renaissance. Neither must be separated from the nexus of relations which is its age, and neither is to be condemned for not being other than itself. Mr. Wickham's anthology performs the service...
...first part of essays on mediaeval religion, originally presented at the Forwood Lectures for 1934 at the University of Liverpool; the second part is "The Origins of the Romantic Tradition," which first appeared in the "Criterion"--like Mr. Ezra Pound, Mr. Dawson finds the essence of Romanticism, without XIXth century secretions, in the Provencel literary tradition, when literature and religion co-operated and collaborated, and the present dualism was yet unknown; the third part is a paper on "Piers Plowman." There is a central unity, however, for Mr. Dawson's concern throughout is with the impact of religion on culture...
Certain authors of the xviiith and xixth Centuries. Special subject : Thomas Carlisle [continued]. Prof. A. A. Hill, Sever...