\ Anno 1778 PHILLIPS ACADEMY r\ f OLIVER WENDELL-HOLMES l LIB R ARY !* / ampliciu V GIFT OF -/ MR. DUDLEY FITTS Since its founding in 1934, Partisan Review has won a deserving reputa¬ tion as one of the finest literary period¬ icals in America and as an important exponent of the liberal point of view. Now, William Phillips and Philip Rahv (founders and editors of Partisan Review) have assembled a rich collec¬ tion of the best critical and creative writing published in their magazine over the past twenty-eight years. The roster of contributors includes T.S. Eliot, writing on poetry; Clement Greenberg, on American art; Irving Howe, on “This Age of Conformity”; Andre Malraux, on “Art and the Illu¬ sion of the Folk”; Paul T illich and and Angus Wilson, to name but a few; and poetry by Allen Ginsberg, Horace Gregory, Robert Lowell, Dylan Thomas, and William Carlos Williams -all of which first saw print in the pages of Partisan Review. Its galaxy of distinguished contribu¬ tors is only one of the reasons why Partisan Review has played such a crucial role on the American intellec¬ tual scene. Perhaps its chief distinction is that it has always, in the words of Lionel Trilling, “accommodated the old and the new, the traditional and the experimental, the religious and the positivistic, the hopeful and the de¬ spairing.” In this bold tradition of the past, the editors have compiled a collection that has value and pertinence for today. The Partisan Review Anthology The Partisan Review Anthology Edited by William Phillips and Philip Rahv HOLT, RINEHART AND WINSTON • NEW YORK Copyright © 1962 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. Copyright 1936, 1938, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, © 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, i960, 1961 by Partisan Review. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. Published simultaneously in Canada by Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada, Limited. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 62-12136 First Edition 1 \ Designer: Ernst Reichl 87326-0212 Printed in the United States of America Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publishers for permis¬ sion to reprint their copyrighted selections: Beacon Press for “Many Thousands Gone” from Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin, copyright 1951, © 1955 by James Baldwin; and “American Type Painting” by Clement Greenberg from Art and Culture, copyright © 1955, 1958, 1961, by Clement Greenberg. Bollingen Foundation and Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. for “The Tempta¬ tion of St. Flaubert” which will appear in Volume 9 of the Collected Works of Paul Valery, Descartes, Goethe, and Others, in a translation by Martin Tumell. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, Inc. for “The Magic Barrel” by Bernard Malamud, from The Magic Barrel, copyright 1954, © 1958 by Bernard Malamud; “The Music of Poetry” from On Poetry and Poets by T. S. Eliot, copyright 1942, © 1957 by T. S. Eliot; and “Characters in Fiction” from On the Contrary by Mary McCarthy, copyright © 1961 by Mary McCarthy. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. and Faber and Faber Ltd. for “The Woman Who Had More Babies Than That” from Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose, by Wallace Stevens, copyright, 1939, 1942, by Wallace Stevens, copy¬ right renewed © 1957 by Elsie Stevens and Holly Stevens. The Macmillan Company and Jonathan Cape Ltd. for “The Intelligensia” from The Yogi and the Commissar by Arthur Koestler, copyright 1945 by Arthur Koestler. William Morrow, Inc. and Martin Seeker & Warburg, Ltd. for “Life and Letters” from The Wrong Set by Angus Wilson, copyright 1949 by Angus Wilson. New Directions for “The Lion” from The Collected Later Poems of William Carlos Williams, copyright, 1944, 1948, 1950 by William Carlos Williams; and “America! America!” from The World Is a Wedding by Delmore Schwartz, copyright 1940, 1948, by Delmore Schwartz. New Directions and J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. for “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” from The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas, copy¬ right 1952, © 1957 by New Directions. Frederick A. Praeger, Inc. for “Conversations with Kafka” by Gustav Janouch, copyright 1953 by Gustav Janouch. Princeton University Press for “In the Hotel De La Mole” by Erich Auerbach from Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Litera¬ ture by Erich Auerbach, copyright, 1953 by Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. Random House, Inc. for “Washington Cathedral” (“Person, Place and Thing”) from Poems 1940-1 953 by Karl Shapiro, copyright 1941 by Karl Shapiro. Random House, Inc. and Eyre & Spottiswoode, Ltd. for the first two sections (Sirocco and Gull’s Cry) from “To a Little Girl, One Year Old, in Ruined Fortress” from Promises: Poems, 1954, 1956, by Robert Penn Warren, copy¬ right © 1955 by Robert Penn Warren. Viking Press for “In George Sand’s Garden” from The Selected Poems of Horace Gregory, copyright 1948 by Horace Gregory. \