The Cowl - v. 71 - n. n/a - Sept 14, 2006

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Welcome Back Issue - September 14, 2006. 8 pages

Well-Tempered Elegance: A Collection Of 1950s Literary Criticism

Graduate Winner: 1st Place, 2005. 18th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition

Whitman Then and Now: A Reminiscence

Provides an account of the author\u27s involvement in Whitman scholarship, including an account of the academic climate in mid-twentieth century America and of the author\u27s involvement in the writing of Start with the Sun: Studies in the Whitman Tradition and the editing of Whitman\u27s Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

Reality and the artistic vision : a study of Randall Jarrell's poetic style

Randall Jarrell was a poet who made painstaking efforts to reproduce in his writing a total sense of reality. He was an interpreter and a translator. His artistic interpretations of the demands of life are an extraordinary way of defining the ordinary, so that even tedium can become interesting and despair can have its own dignity. His translations are chiefly from the work of Rainer Maria Rilke, a German poet with whom Jarrell had much in common as to style, despite the separation of time and locale. What one thinks of as characteristic of Jarrell's poetry includes a style which works with the vocabulary and diction of everyday life, and with themes which never quite get away from the poignance of lost things— loss of one's youth, of loved ones, of love itself, of a desire even for living. This kind of loneliness is found in both Jarrell's own choice of themes as well as in his choice of poems which he translates into a language he himself spoke--that of a well-educated middle-class African. A sampling of the poems Jarrell never published, until they were collected posthumously in his Complete Works, should be illustrative of his characteristic choice of language and theme, and should demonstrate how Jarrell served as an interpreter of ordinary living. His worksheets for a translation of Rilke's "The Widow's Song" further demonstrate Jarrell's meticulous efforts not only to translate the sense of the poem faithfully, but to put into his own language what Rilke had said so well in German. Through all these poems the reader will find the artist at work explaining life with the simplicity and truth it deserves

An ornament of civilization : the literary criticism of Randall Jarrell

Randall Jarrell, one of America's foremost postwar poets, was also a distinguished literary critic, a man Alfred Kazin once described as a "prince of reviewers." This study traces the course of Jarrell’s critical development. It begins with a trio of chapters detailing his apprenticeship when, as a young man at Vanderbilt and Kenyon in the late thirties, he came under the influence of the New Critics. His first work tor national magazines such as The New Republic, The Nation and Partisan Review is also examined, including the early support he received from Edmund Wilson. The fact that Jarrell made his early reputation by writing high-spirited attacks on inept or imitative poets is examined, particularly as this practice contrasts markedly with his later role as an appreciator of too little regarded poets of real worth

Hollins Columns (1960 Oct 20)

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Spoiling the Egyptians: An Introduction to Resuscitating Paideia

In this article, Helena Sullivan shares the mission statement and vision for the journal Resuscitating Paideia. She also explains how reading literature for wisdom looks as it\u27s applied to a particular text, in this case, Homer\u27s Odyssey. More specifically, she examines Book V of that epic, in which Odysseus leaves the goddess Kalypso

The Definitive Account of Early Mediumship : A review of The Heyday of Mental Mediumship: 1880s-1930s: Investigators, Mediums and Communicators, by Alan Gauld.

Following his acclaimed earlier study on mediumship and survival, Alan Gauld providesa more complete account of about 50 years of early studies on mediumship with a select group ofmediums (e.g., Mrs. Piper, Mrs. Leonard, Mrs. Dowden). He describes in detail why many if not mostof the criticisms against extraordinarily accurate accounts by these mediums do not hold waterwhen analyzed in detail. Gauld does not provide easy answers, but in his masterwork doessomething much more important by offering a justification to those who may want to base theirbelief of potential survival on empirically defensible grounds