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Few contemporary writers care so much about language as Connolly; know so much about its resources; use them with such respect.

Here we have the approach, but no quoting can suggest the completeness and consistency with which the job is done. Among the many names receiving distinguished mention is that of the Warden of Wadham:

Like David Cecil, Bowra is above all concerned with the writer as artist, and with his books as works of art. His criticism is essentially humanistic, deeply rooted in and nourished by the civilization of ancient Greece. It is as unusual as it is welcome to find a professional classical scholar competent to write with authority as well as enthusiasm on subjects as various as the European epic and contemporary European poetry.

The Warden of Wadham, it can now be added, has just applied

his classical scholar's ripeness and percipience to an extended appreciation of the poetry of Edith Sitwell (Edith Sitwell, Lyrebird Press).

Mr Hayward's survey ends on this note of uplift:

The integrity of the individual writer can best be defended from all the forces currently arrayed against it, by an attitude of absolute intransigence towards the philistine and all his works. Not only in the immediate post-war era but during die years of man's painful spiritual recovery which lie ahead, such an attitude must be preserved if, out of disintegration, a scheme of values is to arise and out of disillusionment a dynamic faith in the power of the printed word to express the finest operations of human thought and sensibility.

We may rely on the Sitwells to tell us who the philistine is. Can we rely on Horizon and Mr Hayward's majority array of warm 1 British intellectuals (backed by the British Council) to foster uncompromisingly the necessary attitude of absolute intransigence ?

1 The warm intellectual is not, like the cold kind, offensively highbrow: however intransigent, he promotes cosiness.

1948

ABBOTT, PROFESSOR CLAUDE COLUBER, 59, 60

Abercrombie, Lascelles, 38 Abinger Harvest (E. M. Forster), 276 Addison, Joseph, 192 'Aesthetic', use of term, 89 After Strange Gods (T. S. Eliot), 45,

235, 238,240, 242,245, 246, 284 Age of Anxiety, The (W. HL Auden),

293

Akenside, Mark, 42 All for Love (John Dryden), 191 Altar of the Dead, The (Henry James),

230 Ambassadors, The (Henry James), 224-

226 American, The (Henry James), 225,

229

Anderson, Quentin, 223-232 Anderson, Sherwood, 244 Anglo-Catholics, 252, 278,287-288 Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy), 197 Antony and Cleopatra, 132 Approach to Shakespeare, An (D. A.

Traversi), 175-176 Arcadia, The (Sir Philip Sidney), 40 Archer, William, 177-179, 283 Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (Jonathan Swift), 74-75 Aristotle, 126 Arnold, Matthew, 29,31* 44-45. 47-

49, 51,54, 69, 242 Art and Artifice in Shakespeare (E. E.

Stall), 155,158 Ash-Wednesday (T. S. Eliot), 216,278,

287 Aspects of the Novel (E. M. Forster),

263,276 Auden, W. R, 37.2517 291,293-295

Augustans,63, 81, 84, 87, 90, 92-93,

95, 97-H5,130,185-186,192 Austen, Jane, 115, 203, 261-262 Awkward Age, The (Henry James), 230-231

BABBIT, IRVING, 238

Barnes, Djuna, 284 Basic English, 284 'Battle of the Baltic, The* (Thomas

Campbell), 60 Battle of the Books, The (Jonathan

Swift), 79

Baudelaire, Charles, 246 Beaumont and Fletcher, 156, 283 Behn, Mrs Aphra,235 Beljame, Alexandre, 198 Bennett, Arnold, 263 Bentham, Jeremy, i34-*35,226,259 Bible, The, 166, 201, 204,207 'Binsey Poplars' (G. M. Hopkins),

48-49 Black Book, The (Lawrence DurreD),

284 Blake, William, 38, 55, 87, 186-188,

192,216-219

Bloomsbury, 235,255,257,276,293 Bodkin, Maud, 38 Books and Characters (LyttonStrachey),

179

Bostonians, The (Henry James), 231 Boswell, James, 98-101,115-116 Bowra, C M., 297 Bradbrook, M. C, 278-290 Bradley, A. C., 136-140,143-147,*52~

159,174,177-179 Bridges, Robert, n, 44-4<5,51,55,5<5,

58-65, 67-68,70,72 British Council, The, 297-298

THE COMMON PURSUIT

Brooks, Cleanth, 286-287 Browning, Robert, 31, 34, 49, <$4,

201, 203 'Bugler's First Communion, The 1

(G. M. Hopkins), 51 Bunyan, John, 188-192, 204-210 Burney, Fanny, 101 'Burnt Norton* (T. S. Eliot), 14, 50,

290 Byron, Lord, 29, 38, 185

CALVINISTS, 190, 206 Cambridge, 255-260, 278 Cambridge English Faculty, 278 Cambridge Review, The, 279 Campbell, Thomas, 60 Carew, Thomas, 38-39 Cecil, Lord David, 51, 297 Celestial Omnibus, The (E. M. Forster),

261-263,266 Cenci y The, in ' Certain Noble Plays ofjapan' (W. B.

Yeats), 131

Chambers, Sir Edmund, 160 Chambers, R. W., 166-168,171 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 38, 42, 195-197,

199, 203

Chesterton, G. K., 281

Christianity, 248-254

'City Shower, A' (Jonathan Swift), 90

Clark, Sir Kenneth, 296

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 29, 137-139, 152-155, 160, 171, 185

Collins, A. S., 198

Collins, Churton, 74

Comfort, Alex, 249, 251

Communism, 70

Communist Manifesto, The, 204

Compton-Burnctt, Ivy, 249

Comus, 21, 36

Congreve, William, no

Connolly, Cyril, 297

Conrad, Joseph, 194, 263

Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Canon Richard Watson Dixon, 55, 59, 61, 67

Corvo, Baron, 234 Courthope, William John, 198 Cowper, William, 42, 60 Crabbe, George, 38, 115 Crashaw, Richard, 52 Criterion, The, 254 Cymbeline, 158, 163, i73-*79

DAISY MILLER, (Henry James),

229

Daniel, Arnaut, 288 Dante Alighieri, 121-122, 125, 165,

288 Dictionary of the English Language, A,

see Johnson's Dictionary Dies Irae, 71 'Difficulties of a Statesman' (T. S.

Eliot), 286

Digression concerning the Use of Madness in a Commonwealth (Jonathan

Swift), 80, 82, 83, 89 Dixon, Canon Richard Watson, 54-

55, 59, 61-62, 64, 67, 72 Donne, John, 33, 34, 38, 40, 42, 93,

282

Doughty, Charles Montagu, 71 Drummond of Hawthornden,

William, 42 Dryden, John, 45, 72, 104, no, 113,

156,185,188,191, 279-282 Duncan, Ronald, 251 Dunciad, The Fourth Book of the,

88-96,104,113 Duns Scotus, 48, 52 Durrell, Lawrence, 284

' EARTH'S ANSWER* (William

Blake), 218 Economic Consequences of the Peace,

The (J. M, Keynes), 260 Edda and Saga (Dame Bertha Phill-

potts), 194

Edward III, Court of, 197 Egoist, The (George Meredith), 263 Eliot, George, 135 Eliot, T. S., 9-32, 37-38, 41, 43, 45,

301

50, 51, 53, 101, 128, 151, 177, 183,

184, 216, 233-239, 240-247, 251-

254, 278-294, 296 Elizabethans, 142 Elizabethan Theatre, 199-200 Enemy, The ('Note on Belief, by

T. S. Eliot in), 50 England in the Age of Wycliffe (G. M.

Trevelyan), 203 England under the Stuarts (G. M.

Trevelyan), 201 English Folk-Songs from the Southern

Appalachians (Cecil Sharp), 190-191 English Literature and Society in the

XVIlIth Century (Leslie Stephen),

198 English Novelists (edited by Derek

Verschoyle), 233 English Review, The, 236 English Social History (G. M. Trevelyan), 201-203 Epic, 26

'Epistle to Arbuthnot*, 113 'Essay on Man', 104, 113 E. T., 235, 258

Europeans, The (Henry James), 231 Every, Bro. George, 248-254

FAERIE QUEENE, THE, 40

Family Reunion (T. S. Eliot), 249,

287 Fantasia of the Unconscious (D. H.

Lawrence), 245 Fiction and the Reading Public (Q. D.

Leavis), 198

Finnegans Wake (James Joyce), 13 Fletcher, John, 40 For Lancelot Andrewes (T. S. Eliot),

278-281

Forster, E. M., 249, 261-277 'Four Elizabethan Dramatists' (T. S.

Eliot), 177, 283 Fourier, Charles, 224, 230 Four Quartets (T. S. Eliot), 13, 287-

289

Free Man's Worship, A, 128 Freud, Sigmund, 294

'Function of Criticism, The' (T. S. Eliot), 291

GAY, JOHN, 73

Galsworthy, John, 263

Gardner, Miss H. L., 286-287

Garnett, David, 224, 255

Garrick, David, 117

Gascoyne, David, 249-251

Georgians, 293

'Gethsemane* (Rudyard Kipling),

281

'Gerontion' (T. S. Eliot), 11, 291 Gibbon, Edward, 75, 205-206 Gill, Eric, 233 'God's Grandeur' (G. M. Hopkins),

54 Golden Bowl, The (Henry James),

224-230

Goldsmith, Oliver, 112 Graham, Cunninghame, 237 Grand Style, The, 17 Gray, Thomas, 42, 105-107, 112 Gray and Collins (Oxford University

Press), 106

Grierson, Sir Herbert, 33, 41, 42 Gullivers Travels, 73, 74, 78, 80, 84,

85,86

'HABIT OF PERFECTION, THE'

(G. M. Hopkins), 44-4-6, 53-54 Halifax, Marquess of, 191 Hamlet, 163, 164, 201, 203 Harding, D. W., 124, 132-134, 288-

290

Hardy, Thomas, 237 'Harry Ploughman* (G, M. Hopkins),

57,64

Hawkins, Desmond, 249 Hayward, John, 297-298 Hazlitt, William, 160 'Hear tie Voice of the Bard' (William

Blake), 217

Heath-Stubbs, John, 251 'Henry Purcell' (G. M. Hopkins), 58,

71 Herbert, George, 51, 52

History of English Poetry, A (W. J. Johnson, Dr Samuel, 63, 77, 78, 86,

Courthope), 198 97-121, 125, 130, 133

Hogarth, William, 99 Johnson's Dictionary, 104

Homage to John Dryden (T. S. Eliot), Jones, Mrs Duncan, 287

279 Jonson, Ben, 34, 38, 4-0, 42. 52, "7 Home, John, 117 282

Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 44-?2, 242 Joyce, James, 284

Horizon, 295-298 'J^s es ' ( G - M - Hopkins), 56, 57 Housman, A. R, 34, 38,242, 281

Howards End (E. M. Forster), 264, KEATS, JOHN, 16, 17 28, 29, 42-44,

268-270, 272 46, 51, 53,185,196 ,

How Many Children had Lady Mac- Kenyon Review, The, 223-224

beth ? (L. C. Knights), 160-161 Ker, Professor W. P., 42

Humanism, 297 Keyes, Sidney, 249

Huxley, Aldous, 233 Keynes, John Maynard, 255-260

Hyperion, 28,43 Kipling, Rudyard, 281

Knight, Professor Wilson, 142, 166,

IBSEN, HENRJtK, 127, 13! I<5 ? . T ^

Imagism, 17 ' l66 » I<5 7» I<5 9» i?o, 200

'Impromptu* (Thomas Gray), 106 Krishna, 288

In Memoriam, 280 t , ,

Indian Philosophy, 222 L A 1 LL ^ RO 1 ' 34 " 35

Industrial Revolution, 192 Lam }>> Char es > 28 3

Instructions to Servants (Jonathan Landor, Walter Savage, 285

Swift), 86 Lawrence, D, H., 72, 129, 182, 194, 'Intimations of Immortality, Ode on 2 33-239, 240247, 251, 255-260,

tke' 3I 262-263, 282, 284

'Introduction to Songs of Experience' Lawrence D. H.; A Personal Record

(William Blake), 216-217 ( K T >)> 2 * 8

Introduction to these Paintings (D. H. fawrence, J. £.,152

Lawrence) 237 Leaden Echo and The Golden Echo,

Irene (Samuel Johnson), 117-119 The ' ( G * M « H °P kins )» 58, 64

V ; * Leavis,F.R.,28,36,38,42,H2,2 5 i,

297

JACOBEANS, 283 Lesson of the Master, The (Henry James Family, The (F. O. Matthiessen), James), 231

229 L'Estrange, Sir Roger, 192

James, Henry, 38, 197, 198, 223-232, Les Trappeurs de /' 'Arkansas (Gustave

255, 263-264 Aimard), 176

James, Henry, Senior, 224 Le ve t, Robert, 105, ill, 117

James, William, 38 Le W i s> Professor C, Day, 182, 185

John Bunyan: Maker of Myths (Jack Lewis, C. S., 97

Lindsay), 204 »$ j^^ Wyndham, 238, 240-247, 284

John Bunyan: Mechanick {Preacher Liberalism, 129,240

(William York Tindall), 204 Life and Letters (Desmond Mac-John of Gaunt, 195 Carthy), 279

303

Lindsay, Jack, 204, 205, 208-210 Literature and Pulpit in Mediaeval

England (G. R. Owst), 207 'Little Gidding* (T. S. Eliot), 249,

288-290 Lives of the Poets (Samuel Johnson),

114 'Locksley Hall sixty years after*

(Tennyson), 197

'London* (Samuel Johnson), 101,117 London School of Economics, 182 Longest Journey, The (E. M. Forster),

264-268

'Loss of the Royal George*, 60 'Lycidas*, 39, 4*. 63, 113 Lyrical Ballads, 31

MACCARTHY, DESMOND, l6o, 279

Macaulay, Rose, 261, 263 Macbeth, 63, 121, 123-126 Maidand, Frederic William, 260 Mallarme, St^phane, 288 Mankowitz, C. W., 286, 291 Mans Unconquerable Mind (R. W.

Chambers), 166 'Marina* (T. S. Eliot), 18 Marlowe, Christopher, 40, 282 Marriages, The (Henry James), 264 Marvell, Andrew, 42, 93, 191, 282 Marx, Karl, 204 Marxism, 182-185, *9 2 > 2 °4i 2 °9» 2 59»

276

Massinger, Philip, 280 Matthiessen, F. O., 229 Maulc's Curse (Yvor Winters), 203 Measure for Measure, in, 112, 157,

160-172

Mediaeval Latin Verse, 71 Memoirs (J. M. Keynes), 255-260 Mencken, Henry Lewis. 234-235 Men of Letters and the English Public

in the XVIIIth century (Akxandre

Beljame), 198 Meredith, George, 201,203,242, 263,

264

Metaphysical School, 33, 78, 200 Middle Ages, The, 195, 207

Middleton, Thomas, 42, 283

Milford, Sir Humphrey, 60

Mill, John Stuart, 201

Miller, Henry, 284