Acknowledgements
The University Bookman thanks the following for their contributions to this issue: Matthew Alderman, Katherine Eastland, John Lindsley, and Elise Matich (illustrators); Bridget Karl and Ben O’Connor (copy editors); Caitlin Justiniano and Philip Chalk (production &...Books in Little
T. S. Eliot, by Craig Raine (Oxford University Press, 202 pp., 2006). “It has been a chief purpose of good poetry,” Russell Kirk wrote, “to reinterpret and vindicate the norms of human existence.” In his thorough reading of Eliot’s work, particularly his poetry, Raine...The Truth about Roy Campbell
An excerpt from The Sword of Imagination: Memoirs of a Half-Century of Literary Conflict (Wm. B. Eerdmans; Grand Rapids, Mich.; 1995) Another of Kirk’s friends of the Fifties, the lyric poet Roy Campbell, by accident went over an Iberian cliff, though he had survived...
