Book Reviews
Winter 1969
Shorter Reviews: Music in Willa Cather’s Fiction
Music in Willa Cather’s Fiction by Richard Giannone. University of Nebraska Press, $6.95. Professor Giannone’s book treats its considerable problems with grace and finality. No one is likely to find […]
Poetry
Winter 1946
Madrigal
O lacrimae rerum!They have made of their loveA thing, and fear their doom,For wherein shall the tears thereofBe vialed to water their dryingFlowers, that its birth not loomBefore, and shatter […]
Poetry
Winter 1946
A Song of a Frog – For an Aging Lady
If there’s no song she can singOf youthful lover, or with any otherBurden of matter in motion, to smotherThe pain of madam’s remembrance of spring,She must seek her a symbol […]
Poetry
Summer 1945
Elegy for a Child on Easter Morning
Through illusional leaves she had some graceIn the sun in her youngness with him.The effusions of birds, the mere ingenuous shadingOf their songs, awakened to dance or raceWith the dapple […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1945
Reconsiderations:¹ I. Lycidas
The importance of few “minor” poems is more widely recognized than that of Lycidas. There is no other about which more has been said. But there is no other, perhaps, […]