Philip Rahv Summary

Philip Rahv is chiefly remembered as the co-founder (with William Phillips) of Partisan Review, one of the most influential literary journals published in America. Active in the "New York School" of l... Read more

Critical Essay by Richard Chase What one admires most in Philip Rahv's essays [in "Image and Idea"] is the determination to search among our modern cultural closures and total id... Read more

Critical Essay by Irving Howe Though he wrote mostly about literature, and often surpassingly well, Rahv's criticism can't be understood apart from a fancied relation (mostly in his hea... Read more

Critical Essay by Robert Alter [What is] most impressive about Mr. Rahv's criticism is its urgent insistence that the mind remain engaged with the multiplex, ambiguous data of reality despite ... Read more

Critical Essay by Mark L. Krupnick Rahv is best known as an editor, since its founding in 1934, of Partisan Review. [The essays in Literature and the Sixth Sense] are very much the writings of a part... Read more

Critical Essay by Frank Kermode [Rahv's] criticism has strength rather than ingenuity, eloquence rather than wit. He mimics nobody, preferring his own voice with its certainty of timbre and it... Read more

Critical Essay by Denis Donoghue Experience is Rahv's word; it turns up on virtually every page of [Essays on Literature and Politics 1932–1972]. Sometimes he uses it to mean everything... Read more