Book Review
Autumn 1940
Q’s Revisions
The New Oxford Book of English Verse edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Oxford Press. $3.00 Q used to come late to his class in Aristotle’s Poetics which met once a […]
A Poem
Spring 1986
Deep Fishing
Poetry is like fishing,If you have six hooksOn a line one hundred feet down What you have to doIs wait for carp to strike,A mystery of no feeling. Haul up […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1969
Shorter Reviews: The Art of William Carlos Williams: A Discovery and Possession of America
The Art of William Carlos Williams: A Discovery and Possession of America by James Guimond. University of Illinois Press, $6.95. It would be a salutary cultural situation if Mr. Guimond’s […]
Poetry
Spring 1963
A New England View: My Report
The men of Vermont were aiming at New Hampshire. The men of New Hampshire were aiming at Vermont. In the middle was a deer forced into the river. He looked […]
Poetry
Winter 1958
The Parker River (To F. R. K.)
I It must have been a profound and a serene communionWhen nearing dawn, still in pyjamas, to walk awayThe body of this world, and give the body of yoursTo the […]
Poetry
Summer 1956
Sermon on the Amount of Love
I. Ungainly and depraved states Give man his force in these days, When tormented he can act and hope Correction; when he can hope, still Hope is; at a certain […]
Poetry
Summer 1955
Using the Meditative Means
To see the self the abstracted king Voluminous in heavens of history, Deployed in a rueful anarchy, Now the parable of destroyed things; To imagine the imagination rampant In a […]
Poetry
Summer 1953
The Noble Man
An Olympian before the Olympics, that inhuman backdrop. The possible man, it is him I posit, him preempt, The not incalculable master of the braced mountains. He does not have […]
Poetry
Summer 1953
Resources of the World
When we say spiritual things we mean a mist,Yet a mist strong as rock And thus as sheer as music; So spiritual things enamor the spirit. If things were not […]
Poetry
Spring 1952
The Seasons
WINTER MAN Spring was never his fort. Suspect at first, That is, at the first blush introspective, not first When voluptuary to the inner arm, when durst That smooth, round, […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1952
Five Poets
Selected Poems Of Horace Gregory. Viking Press. $3.00 The Seven-League Crutches by Randall Jarrell. Harcourt. $2.75 The Mills Of The Kavanaughs by Robert Lowell. Harcourt. $2.50 Guide To The Ruins […]
Poetry
Summer 1951
The Verbalist of Summer
I The verbalist, with colors at his hand, In the events and size of volant summer, Thought at the sea’s edge How to wash the sovereign waters; They were in […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1949
Errata: A Legend of Viable Women
In Richard Eberhart’s poem in the Winter issue, the word perceived on page 84, fifth line from bottom, should read percepted. The stanza should read: There was a nun of […]
Poetry
Winter 1949
A Legend of Viable Women
I. Maia was one, all gold, fire, and sapphire,Bedazzling of intelligence that rinsed the senses, She was of Roman vocables the disburser, Six couturiers in Paris sat to her hats. […]
Verse More and Less Topical
Spring 1944
Dam Neck, Virginia
2. Anti-aircraft seen from a certain distance On a steely blue night say a mile away Flowers on the air absolutely dream-like, The vision has no relation to the reality. […]
Verse More and Less Topical
Spring 1944
Speech from a Play
3. {Soliloquy} Gower is my pleasure, Dante is my pain As I sit in a mist of inconsequence In this low house where I would burst my brain Entangled as […]
Verse More and Less Topical
Spring 1944
[You Would Think the Fury of Aerial Bombardment]
1. You would think the fury of aerial bombardment Would rouse God to relent; the infinite spaces Are still silent. He looks on shock-pried faces. History, even, does not know […]