Denis Donoghue An Ambiguous Character On Empson Michael Wood Princeton University Press, $22.95, 224 pp. I spent one evening in William Empson’s company, in a manner of speaking. I was...
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Denis Donoghue Grief Detained Levels of Life Julian Barnes Knopf, 128 pp., $22.95 Levels of Life consists of an essay, "The Sin of Height" (twenty-eight pages), a story of sorts, "On the Level"...
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Denis Donoghue Altitude Sickness The Poetry of Thought From Hellenism to Celan George Steiner New Directions, $24.95, 192 pp. In The Poetry of Thought, George Steiner announces his theme...
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BOOKS Denis Donoghue Critical Hospitality Yeats and Violence Michael Wood Oxford University Press, $35, 156 pp. It is not clear why Yeats called one of his major poems "Nineteen Hundred and...
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Books Denis Donoghue The Banality of Eagleton On Evil Terry Eagleton Yale University Press, $25, 163 pp. Evil is not something we should lose too much sleep over," ac-cording to Terry...
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Denis Donoghue Songs of Himself Poems 1959–2009 Frederick Seidel Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $40, 509 pp. Ishould declare an interest, as parliamentarians used to say. Years ago in New...
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What Became ofWystan? Denis Donoghue Collected Poems W. H. Auden Edited by Edward Mendelson The Modern Library, $40, 928 pp. Wystan Hugh Auden was born in York, England, on February...
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i:IWllf1 A stay against inner anarchy Words Alone The Poet T.S. Eliot Denis Donoghue Yule University Press, $2z.95, 326 pp. Gregory Wolfe__________ In 1990, Denis Donoghue published...
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Books: CRITICS' CHRISTMAS CHOICES Denis Donoghue DENIS DONOGHUE holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters at New York University. His most recent book is Art without Mystery...
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BOOKSi A VISIT TO GREENELAND DENIS DONOGHUE The Honorary Consul GRAHAM GREENE Simon & Schuster, $7.95 In the fourth part of The Honorary Consul a minor Argentinian novelist Jorge Julio...
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000 BOOKS O 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 _9 An old field o/ study now comes o/ age 000 Literature and Religion GILES B. GUNN, ED. Harper Forum, $3.95 Religion and Literature HELEN GARDNER Ox/ord,...
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