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Justin O’Brien

Nonfiction

Winter 1942

Poet on Horseback

By Justin O’Brien

I was only English writer who, before the war, predicted JL a victorious popular rising against the Left,” Roy Campbell boasted in a letter dated February 1939 from Toledo, which […]

Book Reviews

Spring 1940

A Mystic in the Raw

By Justin O’Brien

Arthur Rimbaud by Enid Starkie. Norton. $3.37A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud. Translated by Delmore Schwartz. New Directions. $2.50Some Poems of Rimbaud translated by Lionel Abel. Exiles’ Press. $0.50 […]