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  1. [+]
    The Alchemist Dramatist (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Ben Jonson, Dramatist, by Anne Barton
    1. Ben Jonson, Dramatist by Anne Barton
    The New York Review of Books, December 20, 1984, pp. 61-62
  2. America Discovers Bohemia
    Harry Levin
    The Atlantic Monthly, September 1947, pp. 68-75
  3. [+]
    Anne to Victoria to Wallis (Review)
    Harry Levin
    From Anne to Victoria, by Bonamy Dobree
    1. From Anne to Victoria by Bonamy Dobree
    The Nation, August 7, 1937, pp. 154-155
  4. The Novel Today
    Apogee and Aftermath of the Novel
    Harry Levin
    Daedalus, Spring 1963, pp. 206-219
  5. [+]
    Balancing Falstaff (Review)
    Harry Levin
    The Fortunes of Falstaff, by J. Dover Wilson
    1. The Fortunes of Falstaff by J. Dover Wilson
    The New Republic, May 8, 1944, pp. 632-633
  6. [+]
    Being Strong (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Edmund Wilson's Letters
    1. Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912-1972 by Edmund Wilson and Elena Wilson
    The New York Review of Books, October 27, 1977, pp. 3-7
  7. Books
    [+]
    The Brown Book of Heinrich Heine (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Heinrich Heine: Paradox and Poet, by Louis Untermeyer
    1. Heinrich Heine: Paradox and Poet by Louis Untermeyer
    The Partisan Review, January 1938, pp. 50-52
  8. Reappraisals
    Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
    Harry Levin
    The American Scholar, Autumn 1970, pp. 670-676
  9. [+]
    Civilized Nomad (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Lafcadio Hearn, by Vera S. McWilliams
    1. Lafcadio Hearn by Vera S. McWilliams
    The New Republic, April 22, 1946, p. 588
  10. [+]
    Clinical Demonstrations on Four Poets (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Sex, Symbolism, and Psychology in Literature, by Roy Prentice Basler
    1. Sex, Symbolism, and Psychology in Literature by Roy Prentice Basler
    The Saturday Review, January 1, 1949, p. 14
  11. [+]
    A Contest Between Conjurors (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya, by Simon Karlinsky, Vladimir Nabokov, and Edmund Wilson, ...
    1. Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya by Simon Karlinsky, Vladimir Nabokov, and Edmund Wilson, ...
    The New York Review of Books, July 19, 1979, pp. 34-36
  12. Contexts of Criticism (1957)
    Harry Levin
    3 Reviews, 2 Readable
  13. [+]
    De Voto and His Epoch (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Bernard de Voto: A Preliminary Appraisal, by Garrett Mattingly
    1. Bernard de Voto: A Preliminary Appraisal by Garrett Mattingly
    The Nation, March 19, 1938, p. 333
  14. Divided Front in Minnesota
    Harry Levin
    The Nation, October 2, 1937, pp. 346-348
  15. [+]
    Edmund Wilson's Marginalia (Review)
    Harry Levin
    The Thirties, by Edmund Wilson and Leon Edel
    1. The Thirties by Edmund Wilson and Leon Edel
    The Saturday Review, August 1980, pp. 58-59
  16. Books in Review
    [+]
    Everybody's Earwicker (Review)
    Harry Levin
    A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, by Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson
    1. A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake by Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson
    The New Republic, July 24, 1944, p. 106
  17. [+]
    Faust: Still Striving and Straying (2 Reviews)
    Harry Levin
    Goethe's Faust: Part One, by Randall Jarrell
    1. Goethe's Faust: Part One by Randall Jarrell
    2. Faust: A Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Cyrus Hamlin
    The New York Review of Books, November 25, 1976, pp. 10-14
  18. [+]
    Flowers of Good (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Baudelaire: A Criticism, by Joseph D. Bennett
    1. Baudelaire: A Criticism by Joseph D. Bennett
    The New Republic, December 18, 1944, p. 841
  19. The Gates of Horn (1963)
    Harry Levin
    A Study of Five French Realists
    7 Reviews, 3 Readable
  20. [+]
    Grandeur and Decadence (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Balzac, by Stefan Zweig
    1. Balzac by Stefan Zweig
    The New Republic, December 2, 1946, pp. 730-733
  21. [+]
    The Great Good Place (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Utopian Thought in the Western World, by Frank Edward Manuel and Fritzie P. Manuel
    1. Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank Edward Manuel and Fritzie P. Manuel
    The New York Review of Books, March 6, 1980, pp. 47-49
  22. Grounds for Comparison (1972)
    Harry Levin
    1 Review
  23. The Gulfs of Academe
    Harry Levin
    The Atlantic Monthly, October 1954, pp. 77-79
  24. I Saw the Battle of Jerusalem (1950)
    Harry Levin
    2 Reviews
  25. I.A. Richards (1893-1979)
    Harry Levin
    The New York Review of Books, December 6, 1979, pp. 40-41
  26. [+]
    If We Had Some Eggs (2 Reviews)
    Harry Levin
    Hamlet, Vol. II, by Henry Miller and Michael Fraenkel
    1. Hamlet, Vol. II by Henry Miller and Michael Fraenkel
    2. The Expense of Greatness by R.P. Blackmur
    The New Republic, December 30, 1940, p. 905
  27. [+]
    In Times of Realism (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Three Comrades, by Erich Maria Remarque
    1. Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque
    The Nation, April 24, 1937, p. 485
  28. Books and the Arts
    [+]
    Innovation and Collective Talent (3 Reviews)
    Harry Levin
    Ladies and Gentlemen in Victorian Fiction, by E.M. Delafield
    1. Ladies and Gentlemen in Victorian Fiction by E.M. Delafield
    2. Complaint and Reform in England, 1436-1714 by William Huse Dunham and Stanley Pargellis
    3. First Person Plural by Angna Enters
    The Nation, February 12, 1938, pp. 185-186
  29. [+]
    Invitation to Romanticism (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Romanticism and the Modern Ego, by Jacques Barzun
    1. Romanticism and the Modern Ego by Jacques Barzun
    The New Republic, October 25, 1943, pp. 584-585
  30. James Joyce
    Harry Levin
    The Atlantic Monthly, December 1946, pp. 125-129
  31. James Joyce: A Critical Introduction (1942)
    Harry Levin
    4 Reviews, 1 Readable
  32. The Jewish Writer and the English Literary Tradition: A Symposium
    Harry Levin
    Commentary, October 1949, p. 363
  33. [+]
    K. as Commentator (3 Reviews)
    Harry Levin
    The Penal Colony, by Franz Kafka
    1. The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
    2. The Diaries of Franz Kafka, Vol. I: 1910-1913 by Max Brod and Franz Kafka
    3. The Diaries of Franz Kafka, Vol. II: 1914-1923 by Max Brod and Franz Kafka
    The New Republic, February 7, 1949, p. 25
  34. [+]
    Last Essays of Babbitt (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Spanish Character, and Other Essays, by Irving Babbitt
    1. Spanish Character, and Other Essays by Irving Babbitt
    The New Republic, November 11, 1940, p. 670
  35. Letters
    Harry Levin, Stephen Booth, Guy Davenport, and Irvin Ehrenpreis, ...
    The New York Review of Books, February 20, 1975, p. 36
  36. Letters
    Herbert Marshall, Peter Broderick, and Peter Bogdanovich, ...
    The New York Review of Books, February 3, 1977, pp. 45-48
  37. Letters
    Lynn E. Rose, Daniel L. Kline, and Martin Gardner, ...
    The New York Review of Books, October 25, 1979, p. 52
  38. [+]
    Letters of a Writer's Writer (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Selected Letters of Conrad Aiken, by Joseph Killorin and Conrad Aiken
    1. Selected Letters of Conrad Aiken by Joseph Killorin and Conrad Aiken
    The Saturday Review, May 27, 1978, pp. 51-53
  39. Books and Men
    Life Without Father
    Harry Levin
    The Atlantic Monthly, January 1947, pp. 97-101
  40. Literature and the Lively Sciences
    Harry Levin
    The Atlantic Monthly, March 1935, pp. 303-311
  41. The Revolving Bookstand
    [+]
    Lives of the Novelists (7 Reviews)
    Harry Levin
    The Life of the Heart, by Frances Winwar
    1. The Life of the Heart by Frances Winwar
    2. The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray by Gordon N. Ray and William Makepeace Thackeray, ...
    3. The Trollopes by Lucy Poate Stebbins and Richard Poate Stebbins, ...
    4. The Brontes: Charlotte and Emily by Laura L. Hinkley
    5. Tolstoy and His Wife by Tikhon I. Polner
    6. The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edmund Wilson
    7. Freudianism and the Literary Mind by Frederick J. Hoffman
    The American Scholar, Spring 1946, pp. 245-251
  42. [+]
    Lower Criticism (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Dickens, Dali and Others, by George Orwell
    1. Dickens, Dali and Others by George Orwell
    The New Republic, May 6, 1946, pp. 665-666
  43. [+]
    Mann and Superman (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Freud, Goethe, Wagner, by Thomas Mann
    1. Freud, Goethe, Wagner by Thomas Mann
    The Nation, September 11, 1937, p. 270
  44. Books in Review
    [+]
    Mann: From Ur to OPA (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Joseph the Provider, by Thomas Mann
    1. Joseph the Provider by Thomas Mann
    The New Republic, July 10, 1944, p. 49
  45. Books and Men
    Marcel Proust
    Harry Levin
    The Atlantic Monthly, October 1948, pp. 85-89
  46. Books in Review
    Meditation on a Battlement
    Harry Levin
    The New Republic, April 23, 1945, p. 559
  47. Memories of the Moderns (1981)
    Harry Levin
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  48. The Myth of the Golden Age in the Renaissance (1962)
    Harry Levin
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  49. [+]
    Newtonian Cosmology (Review)
    Harry Levin
    War With the Newts, by Karel Capek
    1. War With the Newts by Karel Capek
    The Nation, October 30, 1937, p. 482
  50. [+]
    The Novel, No (Review)
    Harry Levin
    The Novel and the People, by Ralph W. Fox
    1. The Novel and the People by Ralph W. Fox
    The Nation, June 5, 1937, p. 651
  51. [+]
    Of Books and the Man (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Enlarging the Change, by Robert Fitzgerald
    1. Enlarging the Change by Robert Fitzgerald
    The New Republic, March 18, 1985, pp. 35-36
  52. The Overreacher: A Study of Christopher Marlowe (1952)
    Harry Levin
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  53. Paradise, Earthly & Heavenly
    Harry Levin
    Encounter, June 1969, pp. 29-40
  54. [+]
    A Parthian Glance (Review)
    Harry Levin
    The Pretender, by Lion Feuchtwanger
    1. The Pretender by Lion Feuchtwanger
    The Nation, June 12, 1937, p. 684
  55. Perspectives of Criticism (1950)
    Harry Levin
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  56. [+]
    Playwright as Pedagogue (Review)
    Harry Levin
    The Use of the Drama, by Harley Granville-Barker
    1. The Use of the Drama by Harley Granville-Barker
    The New Republic, September 3, 1945, p. 292
  57. [+]
    The Poetry of Geopolitics (Review)
    Harry Levin
    The Tragical History of Christopher Marlowe, by John Bakeless
    1. The Tragical History of Christopher Marlowe by John Bakeless
    The New Republic, February 22, 1943, p. 260
  58. [+]
    Poets of Poetry (Review)
    Harry Levin
    The Heritage of Symbolism, by C.M. Bowra
    1. The Heritage of Symbolism by C.M. Bowra
    The New Republic, August 23, 1943, p. 260
  59. [+]
    Pompres Funebres (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Four French Novelists, by Georges E. Lemaitre
    1. Four French Novelists by Georges E. Lemaitre
    The Partisan Review, May 1938, pp. 54-56
  60. The Portable James Joyce (1947)
    Harry Levin and James Joyce
    1 Review
  61. The Power of Blackness (1958)
    Harry Levin
    Hawthorne, Poe, Melville
    5 Reviews, 2 Readable
  62. [+]
    The Private Life of F.O. Matthiessen (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Rat and the Devil, by Louis K. Hyde, F.O. Matthiessen, and Russell Cheney, ...
    1. Rat and the Devil by Louis K. Hyde, F.O. Matthiessen, and Russell Cheney, ...
    The New York Review of Books, July 20, 1978, pp. 42-45
  63. [+]
    The Professors' Novelist (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Anatole France, 1844-1896, by Edwin Preston Dargan
    1. Anatole France, 1844-1896 by Edwin Preston Dargan
    The Nation, July 10, 1937, pp. 51-52
  64. [+]
    Putting Pound Together (6 Reviews)
    Harry Levin
    A Serious Character, by Humphrey Carpenter
    1. A Serious Character by Humphrey Carpenter
    2. Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano by John Tytell
    3. The American Ezra Pound by Wendy Stallard Flory
    4. The Genealogy of Demons by Robert Casillo
    5. Pound/The Little Review by Ezra Pound, Thomas L. Scott, and Melvin J. Friedman, ...
    6. Ezra Pound and Margaret Cravens by Omar Pound, Robert Spoo, and Ezra Pound
    The New York Review of Books, November 9, 1989, pp. 45-47
  65. The Question of Hamlet (1959)
    Harry Levin
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  66. Books in Review
    [+]
    Reading Bewteen the Lines (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Imaginary Interviews, by Andre Gide
    1. Imaginary Interviews by Andre Gide
    The New Republic, October 30, 1944, p. 570
  67. Books in Review
    [+]
    The Real Thing (Review)
    Harry Levin
    The Short Novels of Dostoevsky, by Feodor Dostoevsky
    1. The Short Novels of Dostoevsky by Feodor Dostoevsky
    The New Republic, January 14, 1946, p. 56
  68. Refractions: Essays in Comparative Literature (1966)
    Harry Levin
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  69. Books
    [+]
    On Modernism (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Selected Letters of James Joyce, by Richard Ellmann and James Joyce
    1. Selected Letters of James Joyce by Richard Ellmann and James Joyce
    The New Republic, January 17, 1976, pp. 31-32
  70. [+]
    Baryshnikov at the NYC Ballet (Review)
    Harry Levin
    The Brothers Mann, by Nigel Hamilton
    1. The Brothers Mann by Nigel Hamilton
    The New Republic, May 19, 1979, pp. 26-29
  71. A Satire Against Mankind and Other Poems (1941)
    John Wilmot and Harry Levin
    1 Review
  72. The Selected Works of Ben Jonson (1938)
    Harry Levin and Ben Jonson
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  73. Books in Review
    [+]
    Self-Condemned Playboy (Review)
    Harry Levin
    The Condemned Playground, by Cyril Connolly
    1. The Condemned Playground by Cyril Connolly
    The New Republic, July 15, 1946, p. 49
  74. Definitions
    Semantics of Culture
    Harry Levin
    Daedalus, Winter 1965, pp. 1-13
  75. Shakespeare and the Revolution of the Times (1975)
    Harry Levin
    Perspectives and Commentaries
    2 Reviews
  76. Books and the Arts
    [+]
    Shakespeare the Surrealist (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Shakespeare's Young Lovers, by Elmer Edgar Stoll
    1. Shakespeare's Young Lovers by Elmer Edgar Stoll
    The Nation, December 25, 1937, p. 720
  77. [+]
    Small Trade Wind (2 Reviews)
    Harry Levin
    The Great Trade Route, by Ford Madox Ford
    1. The Great Trade Route by Ford Madox Ford
    2. Portraits from Life by Ford Madox Ford
    The Nation, March 27, 1937, p. 358
  78. [+]
    Snakes in Iceland (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Literary Opinion in America, by Morton Dauwen Zabel
    1. Literary Opinion in America by Morton Dauwen Zabel
    The Nation, February 19, 1938, pp. 216-218
  79. [+]
    Stendhal in Technicolor (Review)
    Harry Levin
    Stendhal, or The Pursuit of Happiness, by Matthew Josephson
    1. Stendhal, or The Pursuit of Happiness by Matthew Josephson
    The New Republic, November 4, 1946, pp. 595-596
  80. Symbolism and Fiction (1956)
    Harry Levin
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  81. A Teacher and Writer at Harvard
    Harry Levin
    The Partisan Review, Fall 1984, pp. 859-863
  82. Books in Review
    [+]
    Tell It Not in Gath (Review)
    Harry Levin
    The League of Frightened Philistines, by James T. Farrell
    1. The League of Frightened Philistines by James T. Farrell
    The New Republic, July 23, 1945, p. 105
  83. [+]
    Through the Looking Glass (Review)
    Harry Levin
    For the Time Being, by W.H. Auden
    1. For the Time Being by W.H. Auden
    The New Republic, September 18, 1944, p. 347
  84. Books
    [+]
    Traveling Companions (Review)
    Harry Levin
    The Hesse/Mann Letters, by Anni Carlsson, Volker Michels, and Hermann Hesse, ...
    1. The Hesse/Mann Letters by Anni Carlsson, Volker Michels, and Hermann Hesse, ...
    The Saturday Review, June 14, 1975, pp. 31-33
  85. The Unbanning of the Books
    Harry Levin
    Books and Men
    The Atlantic Monthly, February 1966, pp. 77-80
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