representation of the arena of discourse, of the literary order, has depended on the portrayal in poetry, ... fiction, drama, and essay of the struggle that, myriad in its definition of issues, has fundamentally ... assumed the form of a conflict between history and tradition as modes of existence. But as the struggle in ...

Voice, where this essay originally appeared in a somewhat different form. GEORGE STEINER is Extraordinary ... Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. His books include Tolstoy on Dostoevsky and Language and Silence. ... author of five books of poetry and five novels, the latest of which is Baby, Come On Inside. RICHARD ...

Frank's essay on spatial form is as persuasive today as it was in 1945.1 And Sharon Spencer's ... We have even discovered new dimensions in traditional literature. But the model of spatial form has ... limits As modernists and postmodernists, we are conspirators, accom­ plices, agents in the demolition of ...

formal structure, but even in those not clearly based on traditional line and stanza forms some kind of ... as the progress of the seasons. It is true that none of them now bursts on us as Dylan Thomas seemed ... predecessors, still marked by the accepted forms of sensibility. Most of them, as always, will never go far ...

author's quarrels with his contemporaries. He wrote essays on the theory of painting and of drama. He had, ... with the influence of drugs upon his painting and wrote a book on the subject (many years before Aldous ... forget, on the basic premise of "de­ cadentism", namely, that Western bourgeois ...