A New Version of American Innocence

critics alike responded enthusiastically to the adaptation in verse of two classic American stories-Hawthorne's My Kinsman, Major Molineux and Melville's Benito Cereno. In spite of staging difficulties,' Lowell's play was hailed as a major achievement. A highlight of the 1964-1965 season, it won five prizes. To many it appeared that the American stage, divorced since the death of T. S. Eliot from contact with poets of the first rank, had now found an impressive ally, a poet with theatrical flair to go with gifts of language and imagination. The American drama has finally developed an important subject and an eloquent voice, declared Robert Brustein

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