Table of Contents

Volume 19, Number 10 · December 14, 1972

W.H. Auden, Happy Birthday, Dorothy Day

A Harsh and Dreadful Love: Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement by William D. Miller

Alfred Kazin, New York Jew

Michael Wood, Great American Fragments

Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife by William H. Gass

The Last Fair Deal Going Down by David Rhodes

Sadness by Donald Barthelme

Museums and Women and Other Stories by John Updike

Janet Adam Smith, Does Frodo Live?

Master of Middle-earth: The Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien by Paul H. Kocher

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings, Vol. II: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings, Vol. III: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

D.W. Harding, Being "Creative"

The Dynamics of Creation by Anthony Storr

Robert Craft, William E. Harkins, Stravinsky's Svadebka (Les Noces)

Elizabeth Hardwick, Amateurs: Jane Carlyle

C. Vann Woodward, The Chaotic Politics of the South

The Changing Politics of the South edited by William C. Havard

Let the Glory Out: My South and Its Politics by Albert Gore

Biracial Politics: Conflict and Coalition in the Metropolitan South by Chandler Davidson

Alison Lurie, Good Children's Books!

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Joseph Schindelman

The Tenth Life of Osiris Oaks by Wally Cox, by Everett Greenbaum, illustrated by F.A. Fitzgerald

The Little Broomstick by Mary Stewart, illustrated by Shirley Hughes

A Castle of Bone by Penelope Farmer

The House of Wings by Betsy Byars, illustrated by Daniel Schwartz

No Way of Telling by Emma Smith

Goldengrove by Jill Paton Walsh

Friday and Robinson by Michel Tournier, illustrated by David Stone Martin

Once Upon a Time, the Fairy Tale World of Arthur Rackham edited by Margery Darrell

The Light Princess by George MacDonald, illustrated by Maurice Sendak

The Golden Key by George MacDonald, illustrated by Maurice Sendak

Christopher Ricks, Beckett First and Last

The Lost Ones by Samuel Beckett

More Pricks Than Kicks by Samuel Beckett

The Shape of Chaos: An Interpretation of the Art of Samuel Beckett by David H. Hesla

Jane Yett Kiely, If the Fighting Had Taken Place Here …

J.H. Plumb, The Wolf's Clothing

King George III by John Brooke

George III by Stanley Ayling

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Contributors

W. H. Auden (1907–1973) was born in North Yorkshire, England, the son of a doctor. He studied at Oxford and published his first book, Poems, in 1930, immediately establishing himself as one of the outstanding voices of his generation. Auden emigrated to New York in 1939, where he became a US citizen and converted to Anglicanism. He wrote essays, critical studies, plays, and opera librettos for such composers as Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, and Hans Werner Henze, as well as the poems for which he is most famous.

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.

Alfred Kazin's most recent book is God and the American Writer. (April 1998)

Alison Lurie is the author of two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever. She is a former professor of English at Cornell and has published nine novels, of which the most recent is Truth and Consequences. (May 2008)

Christopher Ricks is William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, and Professor of Poetry at Oxford. His most recent book is Dylan’s Visions of Sin. (March 2008)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)

C. Vann Woodward is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His many books include Mary Chesnut's Civil War and The Old World's New World. (February 1998)

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