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Autumn 1985
Vol. VII No. 4
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Nonfiction
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James H. Justus
Hemingway and Faulkner: Vision and Repudiation -
Alvin B. Kernan
The Social Construction of Literature -
Charles Altieri
Modernist Abstraction and Pound’s First Cantos: The Ethos for a New Renaissance
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James H. Justus
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Fiction
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Louise Erdrich
Pounding the Dog -
Jack Matthews
Critical Decisions of Early Years -
Barbara Croft
The Ragpicker’s Boy
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Louise Erdrich
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A Poem
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Galway Kinnell
Last Holy Fragrance -
Herbert Morris
A Photograph by August Sander (Young Girl in a Circus Wagon, Düren, 1932)
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Galway Kinnell
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Poetry
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Rodney Pybus
Out of the Blue -
Rodney Pybus
Black Pansies -
Joyce Carol Oates
Mud-Elegy -
Joyce Carol Oates
The Triumph of Gravity -
Joyce Carol Oates
May Elegy -
Miller Williams
One Day a Woman -
Miller Williams
One of Those Rare Occurrences on a City Bus -
Miller Williams
Mecanic on Duty at All Times -
Miller Williams
Stopping to Look at a Crèche in a Jewelry Store Window He Comes across a Question of Curious Import -
Miller Williams
A Summer Afternoon an Old Man Gives Some Thought to the Central Questions
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Rodney Pybus
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Personally Speaking
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M. C. Bradbrook
Sir William Empson (1906-1984): A Memoir
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M. C. Bradbrook
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Book Reviews
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David Porter
Searching for the Capital of the Mind -
Gary Davenport
The Blessed and the Forsaken -
John C. Ward
Brady’s Boswell: Enthusiastic Indiscretions -
Sidney Burris
Some Versions of Ireland: The Poetry of Tom Paulin and Paul Muldoon
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David Porter
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Summer 1985
Vol. VII No. 3
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Fiction
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Paul Smyth
A Death in Souvála -
James Lee Burke
The Convict
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Paul Smyth
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Nonfiction
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Michael Paul Novak
Love and Influence: Louise Bogan, Rolfe Humphries, and Theodore Roethke -
Anne Wright
Fragments from a Journey
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Michael Paul Novak
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A Poem
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Mark Irwin
Against the Meanwhile
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Mark Irwin
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1985 Ohio Shakespeare Conference
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Karen L. Edwards
Introduction: 1985 Ohio Shakespeare Conference -
Kezia Vanmeter Sproat
Rereading “Othello”, II, 1 -
Doris Adler
The Half-Life of Tate in “King Lear” -
Barbara Hodgdon
Parallel Practices, or the Un-Necessary Difference -
Barry Weller
Identity Dis-Figured: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” -
Bernard Beckerman
Shakespeare Closing
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Karen L. Edwards
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A Gathering of Poems
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Michael Miller
First Kingdom -
Richard Behm
Recalling a Conversation with My Daughter -
Richard Behm
The Horses of Morning -
Marita Garin
A Yard near Elizabethton, Tennessee -
Robert S. King
A Wingbeat of Hope -
Robert S. King
If God Permits
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Michael Miller
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Editorial
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Galbraith M. Crump
Of Narrative Ways and Means
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Galbraith M. Crump
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Book Reviews
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Martin Lebowitz
Faulted into Consciousness: Recent Writing on Auden and Eliot -
Peter Stitt
The Livelier Art
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Martin Lebowitz
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Spring 1985
Vol. VII No. 2
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Fiction
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Patricia E. Powers
The Settlement -
Peter Cameron
Excerpts from Swan Lake -
Ewing Campbell
Squares of Opposition, Signs of Disorder
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Patricia E. Powers
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Nonfiction
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Poems from "The Death of Cock Robin"
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W. D. Snodgrass
The Charges against Cock Robin -
W. D. Snodgrass
Call for Clues -
W. D. Snodgrass
Auction
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W. D. Snodgrass
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Poetry
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T. R. Hummer
Dogma: Pigmeat and Whiskey -
T. R. Hummer
The Moon and Constellations -
T. R. Hummer
Cancer Rising: A Dream of Walking -
T. R. Hummer
Winter, a Walk in Pinewoods -
Lisa Lewis
Bottles -
Lisa Lewis
Oats -
Robert Fagles
The Scream -
Robert Fagles
To the Parents of Our Adopted Children -
Robert Wrigley
The Crèche -
Robert Wrigley
Apology -
Kay Ryan
Why We Cannot Be Oriental -
Kay Ryan
The Devil -
Kay Ryan
It Doesn’t Matter -
Kay Ryan
Song from the Watchtower -
Kay Ryan
That Gentleness
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T. R. Hummer
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A Play
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Oscar Mandel
And the Lord God Planted a Garden
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Oscar Mandel
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Personally Speaking
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Samuel Pickering
Upstairs
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Samuel Pickering
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Book Reviews
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Howard Eiland
Technology and Modernism -
Carolyn G. Heilbrun
A Framework of Steel -
Reed Browning
The Name of Frailty -
George Core
A Lovely Ritualist at Play in the Fields of Poetry
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Howard Eiland
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Winter 1985
Vol. VII No. 1
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Editor's Notes
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Fiction
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Melvin Jules Bukiet
Levitation -
Gina Berriault
A Dream of Fair Women -
Amy Herrick
Chicken Little
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Melvin Jules Bukiet
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Nonfiction
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William Bedford Clark
Warren’s Criticism and the Evolving Self -
Robert Pack
The Tears of Art -
Parrish Dice Henry
In the Connecticut Grain: The Final World of Wallace Stevens
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William Bedford Clark
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Poetry
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Jane Kenyon
Twilight: After Haying -
Dave Smith
Summer House -
Masao Nonagase
My Daughter and I -
Masao Nonagase
The Vestiges of Passion -
Glenn Cannon Arbery
Honeymoon, All Soul’s -
David Bergman
The Dedicant* -
Dieter Weslowski
The Fall -
Jane Kenyon
Siesta: Barbados -
Masao Nonagase
About Old Age Blues in the Sunset -
Dave Smith
Pregnant -
Naomi Shihab Nye
Point of Rocks, Texas -
Naomi Shihab Nye
Looking for the Cat Grave -
Masao Nonagase
Envoy -
Masao Nonagase
A Cruel End to My Desire -
Jane Kenyon
Back from the City -
Dave Smith
Ancestral Farmhouse -
Dave Smith
Pillage -
Dieter Weslowski
Inventory -
David Bergman
Cardiogram -
Dave Smith
Field Music
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Jane Kenyon
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Personally Speaking
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Don Zacharia
My Legacy
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Don Zacharia
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Book Reviews
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Barry Weller
The Fate of Iconography -
Nina Auerbach
Victorian Realities -
Ben Howard
Erotic, Ghostly Atmospheres
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Barry Weller
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Autumn 1984
Vol. VI No. 4
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Nonfiction
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Daniel Albright
Virginia Woolf as Autobiographer -
Harry Berger, Jr.
Sneak’s Noise
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Daniel Albright
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Fiction
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Mary Hood
Moths -
Jack Matthews
Isaac Trimble’s Tale
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Mary Hood
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Poetry
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Marc Hudson
An Icelandic Door -
Laurence Lieberman
The Dungeon Amorist -
John Engels
The Pool at Sunrise -
John Engels
For the Lately Dead -
John Engels
Cobra -
John Engels
The Raft
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Marc Hudson
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Six Poems, Three Poets
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David Baker
Running the River Lines -
David Baker
The Anniversary of Silence -
Alan Feldman
Inscrutable -
Alan Feldman
Dissolving the Boundaries -
John Holloway
Hour Angle -
John Holloway
A Poem of Light and Shade
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David Baker
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Personally Speaking
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William H. Gass
The Habitations of the Word
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William H. Gass
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Book Reviews
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Irving Massey
The Reach of Criticism -
Gordon Weaver
The Reliable Tradition and Recent Fashion: Some Contemporary Short Stories -
Richard King
On Literary Theory -
Tony Stoneburner
The Poetry of David Jones
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Irving Massey
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Summer 1984
Vol. VI No. 3
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Fiction
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Louise Erdrich
Lulu’s Boys -
Gregory Blake Smith
Snowblind
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Louise Erdrich
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A Mock-Epic
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Cedric Whitman
Winter in Tomi or Dido’s Complaint
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Cedric Whitman
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Nonfiction
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Jeanne Campbell
Creatures of “Charm”: A New T. S. Eliot Poem -
David Wyatt
Bloom, Freud, and “America”
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Jeanne Campbell
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An Apocrypha
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Zbigniew Herbert
The Gordian Knot
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Zbigniew Herbert
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Voices in American Poetry
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Diane Ackerman
Night on the Nile -
Diane Ackerman
Silhouette -
Diane Ackerman
Lines Written in a Pittsburgh Skyscraper -
Eric Pankey
Chekhov on the Way to Singapore -
Eric Pankey
Encounters -
Edward Field
To Poetry -
William Burns
“All at Once His Leprosy Passed” -
John S. Eells Jr.
The Forty-Acre Lot -
John S. Eells Jr.
Argus, Dreaming -
John S. Eells Jr.
Here, in the Desolate City -
Wade Newman
Moses -
Wade Newman
Noah -
Ralph Burns
Lacking Sympathy -
Ralph Burns
The Jay
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Diane Ackerman
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Poetry
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Frederick Feirstein
Mustering Light: A Sequence
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Frederick Feirstein
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Personally Speaking
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Gordon Weaver
The Parts of Speech
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Gordon Weaver
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Editorial
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P. D. C.
On Creative Fiction
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P. D. C.
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Book Reviews
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Myrddin Jones
Found: Good Hardy Scholars. -
Gary Davenport
The Word and the World -
T. R. Hummer
Revising the Poetry Wars: Louis Simpson’s Assault on the Poetic -
James S. Hans
The Virtues of Opera Reconsidered -
Sidney Burris
Gaiety, Magic, and War: Ariel and Prospero among Three American Poets
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Myrddin Jones
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Spring 1984
Vol. VI No. 2
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Selected Prose
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John Crowe Ransom
John Crowe Ransom: A Gathering of Sentences
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John Crowe Ransom
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A Gathering of Poems
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Jane Kenyon
At the Town Dump -
Jane Kenyon
Who -
Mary Oliver
Poem -
Mary Oliver
Untitled -
Paul Jenkins
A House and a Vein of Water -
Paul Jenkins
All Souls’ Day -
Paul Jenkins
Open Window -
Paul Jenkins
Exhalation -
Paul Jenkins
Dark Water -
Charles Simic
Instead of Counting Sheep -
Charles Simic
History -
Charles Simic
Notice -
Pattiann Rogers
Creating Something out of Nothing -
Pattiann Rogers
Rhythmic Brushwork -
Mark Irwin
from ‘The Wisdom of the Body’ -
Trevor Knapp
Oak -
Iain Bamforth
Walking Back to China -
Li Ho
An Arrowhead from the Ancient Battlefield of Ch’ang-P’ing -
Julia Randall
Video Games
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Jane Kenyon
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Nonfiction
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Peter Stitt
James Wright: The Garden and the Grime -
Charles Altieri
Picasso’s Collages and the Force of Cubism
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Peter Stitt
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Fiction
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Edith Milton
Dwyer’s Girl -
R. C. Day
The Fugitive
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Edith Milton
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Personally Speaking
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Albert Goldbarth
Fuller
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Albert Goldbarth
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Editorial
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Galbraith M. Crump
Letter from Lucca
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Galbraith M. Crump
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Book Reviews
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Royal Rhodes
Language of Grace -
Frank Kermode
The Augustan Idea
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Royal Rhodes
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Winter 1984
Vol. VI No. 1
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Nonfiction
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Patricia Wallace
Separateness and Solitude in Frost -
Howard Eiland
Beyond Psychology: Heidegger on Nietzsche
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Patricia Wallace
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Fiction
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Tatsuo Nagai
The Nutcracker -
L. Shapley Bassen
Flash Gordon -
Susan Herbert
The Little Ice Age
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Tatsuo Nagai
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Five Love Poems
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Robert Bly
The Way He Turns -
Robert Bly
The House -
Robert Bly
The Pillow -
Robert Bly
Black Tree Trunks -
Robert Bly
Ferns
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Robert Bly
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Poetry
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Mark DeFoe
The Field -
William Hathaway
Letter to a Cousin on His Twentieth Deathday -
William Hathaway
Speaking of Sounds -
Andrew Hudgins
Consider -
Sally Harris Sange
Epithalamium
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Mark DeFoe
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At Night: Two Poems
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Aaron Kramer
Homecoming -
Aaron Kramer
Nocturne
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Aaron Kramer
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Personally Speaking
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Stanley Kauffmann
Album of a European Year
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Stanley Kauffmann
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Book Reviews
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Mary Kinzie
Her Revery -
Dave Smith
Myths of Love: New American Fiction -
Gail Pool
A Stroll with William James -
Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Figures of Autobiography: The Language of Self-Writing in Victorian and Modern England
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Mary Kinzie
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Autumn 1983
Vol. V No. 4
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Editor's Notes
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Philip D. Church
Editorial: Form and Ethics
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Philip D. Church
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Fiction
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Italo Calvino
Autumn: The Rain and the Leaves -
Joyce Carol Oates
Old Budapest
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Italo Calvino
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Nonfiction
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Kathleen Woodward
Instant Repulsion: Decrepitude, the Mirror Stage, and the Literary Imagination -
Christopher Clausen
Morality, Poetry, and Criticism -
Donald Hall
Poetry and Ambition
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Kathleen Woodward
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A Poem
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Fleda Brown Jackson
The Scholar’s Cat -
Paul Smyth
Aubade
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Fleda Brown Jackson
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Poetry
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Ooka Makoto
Without Its Skin -
Ooka Makoto
Around Its Knees -
Linda Gregg
Oedipus Exceeding -
Linda Gregg
Not Saying Much -
Linda Gregg
Complete -
Linda Gregg
On the Way -
Linda Gregg
White Light -
Linda Gregg
What Is Left Over -
Tom Disch
When Your Hand Shakes, When Your Eye’s Meat -
Tom Disch
When Your Eyes Meet, When Your Hand Shakes
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Ooka Makoto
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Four Poems
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Christopher Clausen
The Ram’s Story -
Christopher Clausen
The Passing Fancy Man -
Christopher Clausen
Dying Boy by Artificial Lake -
Christopher Clausen
Charles Darwin on Music
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Christopher Clausen
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Personally Speaking
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Jason Weiss
An Interview with Carlos Fuentes
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Jason Weiss
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Book Reviews
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Gerald Weales
The World, the Text, and the Critic -
William E. McCulloh
Greek Tragic Poetry -
Richard King
Representations of Revolution, 1789-1820 -
Nina Auerbach
Dickens and Women
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Gerald Weales
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Summer 1983
Vol. V No. 3
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Nonfiction
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Reinhard H. Friederich
Fortuna’s Journeymen in the Abyss of Sleep -
Sandra M. Gilbert
The Second Coming of Aphrodite: Kate Chopin’s Fantasy of Desire
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Reinhard H. Friederich
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Poetry
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Virgil
Aeneas at Carthage from “The Aeneid” -
Howard Nemerov
Gnomic Variations for Kenneth Burke -
Howard Nemerov
First Light -
Howard Nemerov
In Memory of the Master Poet Robert Browning -
Howard Nemerov
Marvell -
David Wagoner
A Woman Standing in the Surf -
Jayanta Mahapatra
The Captive Air of Chandipur -
Jayanta Mahapatra
Again, One Day, Walking by the River
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Virgil
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Fiction
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Valentin Rasputin
Rudolfio
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Valentin Rasputin
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Drama
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Theodore Faro Gross
Fire at Luna Park: Transcriptions for Four Instruments in Five Scenes
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Theodore Faro Gross
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Personally Speaking
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Editorial
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Galbraith M. Crump
Editorial: New Words for Old
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Galbraith M. Crump
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Book Reviews
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William Harmon
Analysts or Annalists -
James S. Hans
Aesthetic Experience and Literary Hermeneutics -
Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
The “Hound & Horn” Letters -
James H. Justus
The War within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945 -
P. T. Whelan
D. H. Lawrence
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William Harmon
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Spring 1983
Vol. V No. 2
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Editor's Note
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Frederick Turner
Editorial: A Valediction
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Frederick Turner
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Nonfiction
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L. C. Knights
Poetry and Belief: Notes on an Old Debate -
Dana Gioia
The Dilemma of the Long Poem -
Frederick Feirstein
The Other Long Poem -
Emily Grosholz
Imagining Human Action -
Dick Allen
The Forest for the Trees: Preliminary Thoughts on Evaluating the Long Poem -
Clifford Siskin
A Preface to Creative Criticism -
Eudora Welty
That Bright Face Is Laughing
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L. C. Knights
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Poetry
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Amy Clampitt
Keats and the Elgin Marbles -
Julia Budenz
Helicon: An Excerpt from “The Gardens of Flora Baum” -
Brooks Haxton
The Lay of Eleanor and Irene: An Excerpt from the Poem -
Pamela White Hadas
Pocahontas from Her New World -
David Ignatow
Mythic Autobiography -
Betty Adcock
Swan Story
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Amy Clampitt
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Five Poems
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Rodney Pybus
Now She Sleeps -
Rodney Pybus
Fractures -
Rodney Pybus
Engraved in Plural Voices -
Rodney Pybus
Effigy -
Rodney Pybus
Eclipse
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Rodney Pybus
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Fiction
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Winter 1983
Vol. V No. 1
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Nonfiction
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Ihab Hassan
Desire and Dissent in the Postmodern Age -
William Strobridge, Jr.
Sa’ad and Surat -
James S. Hans
Form and Measure in the Postmodern World -
Simone Oettli
The Maze Maker -
H. S. Thayer
The Right to Believe: William James’s Reinterpretation of the Function of Religious Belief -
Gregory Blake Smith
Hands
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Ihab Hassan
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Fiction
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Tricia Tunstall
The Assignation
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Tricia Tunstall
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Poetry
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Don Bogen
Net -
Don Bogen
The Last Installment -
Jesper Svenbro
Stalin as Wolf -
Albert Goldbarth
Most Glow / Vessel -
Albert Goldbarth
The Lines -
James Reiss
Express -
Rika Lesser
The Warning -
Winston Weathers
Pax Romana: Four Movements -
John Hildebidle
Premature Elegy -
Willis Barnstone
Gospel of Lies -
John Logan
A Month of Saints
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Don Bogen
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Two Poems
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Yannis Ritsos
Achilles after Death -
Yannis Ritsos
Penelope’s Despair
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Yannis Ritsos
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