Essays and Reviews by Kenneth Rexroth
Introductory:
Introduction to
Bird in the Bush: Obvious Essays
History:
Africa’s Destroyed Civilization
The Unchristian Crusades
The Sicilian Vespers
Gibbon’s Letters
Francis Parkman
Harold Gilliam’s San Francisco Bay
Society:
The
Social Lie
Richard Wright and the Persistence of Racism
Disengagement: The Art of
the Beat Generation
Beginnings of a New
Revolt
The
Making of the Counterculture
The Heat
Urbanism and
Community Planning
Psychology:
My Head Gets
Tooken Apart
Citizen Fromm
Music:
American
Indian Songs
Some Thoughts on Jazz
Five More Articles on Jazz
Jazz Poetry
Subversive Aspects of Popular Songs
Western Literature:
Greek
Tragedy in Translation
On
Translating Roman Verse
Tragedy and
Philosophy
William
Blake
Coleridge and
Zen?
Baudelaire’s Ennobling Revulsion
Rimbaud as Capitalist
Adventurer
The
Victorian Conspiracy of Cant
Henry James
and H.G. Wells
Ford Madox Ford
Blaise Cendrars
The Cubist Poetry of
Pierre Reverdy
Surrealist
Poetry
The Influence of French
Poetry on American
Poetry, Regeneration, and D.H. Lawrence
D.H.
Lawrence: The Other Face of the Coin
Samuel
Beckett and the Importance of Waiting
Lawrence Durrell
Isaac
Bashevis Singer
Two Talks on Poetry and Society
The
Poet as Translator
Ten
Influential Books
The Art of Literature (Encyclopaedia Britannica
article)
The Bollingen
Series
The Lore and
Language of Schoolchildren
American Literature:
Mark Twain
The Decline of
American Humor
The
Reality of Henry Miller
Henry
Miller: The Iconoclast as Everyman’s Friend
Kenneth Patchen, Naturalist of the Public Nightmare
The Poetry of
Eli Siegel
The New American Poetry
Jack Kerouac
Allen Ginsberg
in America
The Authentic
Joy of Philip Whalen
Gary Snyder:
Smokey the Bear Bodhisattva
Western Art:
Turner:
Painting as an Organism of Light
Turner and Whistler
The
Letters of Van Gogh
The Heroic
Object and Fernand Léger
Mark Tobey:
Painter of the Humane Abstract
The
Visionary Painting of Morris Graves
Western Religion:
Ecclesiastes
Gnosticism
The Holy Kabbalah
Thomas
More’s Utopia
The Spiritual Alchemy of Thomas
Vaughan
Lamennais:
From Reaction to Revolution
The Evolution of Anglo-Catholicism
The Catholic Modernists
The Hasidism of Martin
Buber
Simone Weil
The New English Bible
Eastern Literature and Culture:
Greeks and
Buddhists in Afghanistan
Sung Dynasty
Culture
The Tao of
Painting
Science and
Civilization in China
Matteo Ricci’s China
Journals
The Chinese
Classic Novel
Japanese
Literature
The World of
Genji
Japanese Noh Plays
Haiku and
Japanese Religion
Lafcadio
Hearn and Japanese Buddhism
Six
Japanese Novelists
The Poetry of
the Far East in a General Education
See also the essays in Classics
Revisited and the columns and articles in Rexroth’s San Francisco.