Book Reviews
Spring 1962
Packing up for Devil’s Island
Imitations by Robert Lowell. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. $4.50Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems by Richard Wilbur. Harcourt, Brace and World. $3.75. The Gardener and Other Poems by John […]
Poetry
Summer 1946
On the Record
(The Rover Boys Grant an Interview to a Reporter for the Brill College News) Reporter. Tell me, Dick the Elder, how you’ve time To save Dad, drag a treasure from a bay, Lead […]
Poetry
Summer 1945
Home Abroad
More brutal doesn’t live than this big soldier,Minding New Orleans (a gal),Valorous deeds to hold her,And a wedding veil. Distracted not at all by duties foreign,He desecrates his leader’s timeAnd […]
Poetry
Summer 1945
Hester Prynne
The scaffold where dishonoured Hester stoodOn Sunday morning, hugging little Pearl,Is down, and no one of that sombre crowdHangs on to boo the bad old girl. Even all those magistrates […]
Poetry
Summer 1945
On the Death of Some One Close
Neither the least nor the mostSorrow is becomingIn this instance.A certain gravity,A solemn pose denotingGrief well-borneIs probably correct. At parties be reserved.Restrain the raucous chuckleAnd the dirty joke.Drink less,Incline to […]
Poetry
Summer 1945
This Is It
This is the battle to end the buying of bonds,The battle bastards dying don’t in vain.This is the time, men, it, and after you climbThat hill, cross that open space, […]