Originally published as “Our Hawthorne” in Hawthorne Centenary Essays, edited by Roy Harvey Pearce (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1964). Also published in Partisan Review, Summer 1964.
Essays
The Leavis-Snow Controversy
First published as “A Comment on the Leavis-Snow Controversy.” Commentary, June 1955.
Isaac Babel
First published as the introduction to Isaac Babel: The Collected Stories, edited by Walter Morison (New York: Criterion Books, Inc., 1955). Also published as "Isaac Babel: Torn Between Violence and Peace" in Commentary, June 1955.
Freud: Within and Beyond Culture
“Freud: Within and Beyond Culture.” First delivered as “Freud and the Crisis of our Culture” for the Freud Anniversary Lecture in the New York Psychoanalytical Society and the New York Psychoanalytical Institute, May 1955. Subsequently published as Freud and the Crisis of our Culture (Boston: Beacon Press, 1955).
The Fate of Pleasure
“The Fate of Pleasure.” Partisan Review, Summer 1963.
Emma and the Legend of Jane Austen
First published as the introduction to Emma by Jane Austen, Riverside Edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957). Also published in Encounter 8, no. 6 (June 1957).
On the Teaching of Modern Literature
First published as “On the Modern Element in Modern Literature.” Partisan Review, January-February 1961.
“That Smile of Parmenides Made Me Think”
" 'That Smile of Parmenides Made Me Think.' " The Griffin 5, no. 2 (February 1956). Also published as "The Smile of Parmenides: George Santayana in his Letters" in Encounter, December 1956: 30-37.
On Not Talking
"On Not Talking." Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2nd series, No. 6 (1956).
Criticism and Aesthetics
Originally published as “Art and the Philosopher.” The Griffin 3, no. 8 (August 1954).