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C. A. Millspaugh

Book Reviews

Summer 1940

Among the New Books of Verse

By C. A. Millspaugh

A Turning Wind by Muriel Rukeyser. The Viking Press. $2.00First Will and Testament by Kenneth Patchen. New Directions. $2.50Confusions About X by Julian Symons. The Fortune Press (London). 3s. 6d. […]

Poetry

Spring 1939

New Continent

By C. A. Millspaugh

How swiftly has belief divinedA timeless country in the mind.Stern in its gardens a high sun stands.Precise and eloquent are the sandsThat greet its sea. So fit the placeAnd fleet […]

Book Reviews

Winter 1939

Private and Public Verse

By C. A. Millspaugh

A Glad Day by Kay Boyle. New Directions. $2.00.The Carnival by Frederic Prokosch. Harper and Brothers. $2.00.The Five Fold Mesh by Ben Belin. Knopf. $2.00. Miss Boyle’s poetry like her […]