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Winter 1966
Vol. XXVIII No. 1
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Fiction
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David Madden
The Singer
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David Madden
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Nonfiction
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Thomas Flanagan
The Big House of Ross-Drishane -
William Fifield
Excursion -
Philip Young
Hemingway and Me: A Rather Long Story -
Alfred Werner
Kokoschka: Modern Old Master
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Thomas Flanagan
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Book Reviews
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Jack Gilbert
All: The Collected Short Poems: 1923-1958 -
Jack Gilbert
Young Critics on Young Poets -
Ronald Berman
Sexus -
Kenneth S. Lynn
The Education of Daniel J. Boorstin -
James Harvey
In and Out of Fashion -
Germaine Brée
Three French Poets -
Harry Stone
Dickens and the Scandal-Mongers -
Irving Malin
The Nightclerk -
Cyrus Banning
New Philosophers -
Edgar Johnson
Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed
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Jack Gilbert
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Autumn 1965
Vol. XXVII No. 4
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Fiction
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Olivia Davis
Sappho in Wales -
Josephine Jacobsen
On the Island
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Olivia Davis
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Nonfiction
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Robie Macauley
Let Me Tell You about the Rich… -
Harry Levin
Wonderland Revisited -
John Russell
Quintet from the ’30s: Anthony Powell
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Robie Macauley
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Poetry
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Robert Pack
Home from the Cemetery -
William Stafford
Father, His Friend, and Another -
Michael Mott
Piero Di Cosimo -
David Posner
Suburban Storm -
Eleanor Ross Taylor
Victory -
Barbara Bellow Watson
Echoes in a Burnt Building -
John Alexander Allen
A Retreat before the War: Camden, Maine, 1942
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Robert Pack
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Book Reviews
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George Hemphill
No Machine to Measure the Poem With -
Martin Lebowitz
The Perspective of Time -
John Oliver Perry
The Archaic World of Feeling -
Josephine Herbst
Moralist’s Progress -
John A. Goldsmith
New Luster on an Old Facade -
Glauco Cambon
The Tangibles of Craftsmanship -
Wallace Hildick
Bad Verses and Good Offices
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George Hemphill
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Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment
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Wright Morris
The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet -
Selma Jeanne Cohen
Not on Their Toes -
Charles Higham
Kurosawa’s Humanism
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Wright Morris
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Summer 1965
Vol. XXVII No. 3
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Reviews: Dickens and Some Others: Special Review Section
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Irving Kreutz
Collage -
Irving Malin
The Player King -
Wayne C. Booth
One Day -
Harry Stone
Critic of the Hour -
John Cage
Mosaic -
John Yolton
In the Soup -
Calvin Kentfield
Castle Keep -
Richard Freedman
On the Spoor of the Beatnik -
Germaine Brée
The Motorcycle -
Herbert Jaffa
Out of the Oldest Continent -
Stephen Taylor
Tea and Astringency -
James Boatwright
The Ballad of the Flim-Flam -
Frederick J. Hoffman
After the Wedding Anniversary -
Minna Lederman
The Passionate Pilgrim -
Ronald Berman
The Convert and the Heretic -
Martin Green
The Problems of Fictional Theater -
Edgar Johnson
A Tremendous Drama -
Elizabeth Dalton
Children of Violence
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Irving Kreutz
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Fiction
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Joyce Carol Oates
At the Seminary -
Arthur Heiserman
A Short Story about Saints, Priests, Races, Etc. -
Christina Stead
The Puzzleheaded Girl
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Joyce Carol Oates
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Poetry
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Turner Cassity
Of Heaven as Production Number -
James Dickey
Mangham -
William Stafford
Observation Car and Cigar -
Turner Cassity
A Song to Be Vindicated -
Warren Carrier
Ballad of the Milltown Bar -
Robert Hollander
R. P. B. Winter -
L. E. Sissman
England, 1920: The Auden Circle -
F. D. Reeve
Look at These Moscow Pictures -
L. E. Sissman
Elegy and Reflection -
Warren Carrier
Beyond Colonus -
Lawrence P. Spingarn
Die Stimme
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Turner Cassity
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Spring 1965
Vol. XXVII No. 2
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Fiction
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C. K. Stead
A Fitting Tribute -
Julia O’Faolain
Death Duties -
R. C. Day
No Hard Feelings
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C. K. Stead
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Nonfiction
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Philip Young
Hawthorne and 100 Years: A Report from the Academy -
Wallace Hildick
In That Solitary Room -
Malcolm Cowley
The Sense of Guilt
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Philip Young
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Poetry
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Edward Weismiller
A Scene -
Leonard E. Nathan
The Day the Perfect Speakers Left -
Marco Antonio Montes de Oca
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Marco Antonio Montes de Oca
The Unreachable Sun -
Christoph Meckel
When I Came Home -
Harold Witt
Wolf Enough -
Edward Weismiller
“Such an Adam as He Is in the Motions” -
Marco Antonio Montes de Oca
The Clown’s Farewell
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Edward Weismiller
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Book Reviews
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James Dickey
Reality’s Shifting Stages: Reviews by Five Hands -
Charles R. Ritcheson
The Anti-War -
Josephine Herbst
Only the Best -
Alfred Werner
Golden Age or Brass? -
Robert Merritt
Rebellion and Rhetoric -
Martin Lebowitz
Time and Anxiety
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James Dickey
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Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment
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Leslie Paul
The Angry Young Men Revisited -
Frank O’Connor
The Scholar
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Leslie Paul
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Winter 1965
Vol. XXVII No. 1
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Fiction
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Hilary Corke
The Still Sea -
Nancy Potter
We Have Seen the Best of Our Times -
Nadine Gordimer
Vital Statistics -
William Fifield
Et tu, Neanderthal
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Hilary Corke
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Nonfiction
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Leslie Paul
A Conversation with T. S. Eliot -
Paul Valéry
I Sometimes Said to Stéphane Mallarmé… -
Gerald Heard
The Poignant Prophet
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Leslie Paul
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Poetry
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W. D. Snodgrass
Looking -
Robert Huff
Listening to Leda in the Cemetery -
Ruth Whitman
The Marriage Wig -
Ruth Whitman
Her Delirium -
Muriel Rukeyser
The Conjugation of the Paramecium -
Robert Huff
Fred’s Case -
William McLeod Rivera
My Grandmother at the Library -
W. D. Snodgrass
For Adolf Eichmann -
Jack Gilbert
Another Grandfather -
Richard Hugo
Napoli Again -
Richard Hugo
Maratea, Pizzeria S. Biagio
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W. D. Snodgrass
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Book Reviews
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Roy Harvey Pearce
Frost -
Ronald Berman
Zion as Main Street -
Paul Schwartz
That Old Vitriola -
J. C. Oates
Notions Good and Bad -
Leonard Gross
Lost: One Mind -
Joseph Wechsberg
To Eat the Sea
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Roy Harvey Pearce
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Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment
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Stephen Taylor
The Second New York Film Festival -
Thomas MacIntyre
This Dying Lark -
Edward Dahlberg
Adages
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Stephen Taylor
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Autumn 1964
Vol. XXVI No. 4
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Fiction
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Georgia McKinley
The Mighty Distance -
William Wiser
My Song, “Sour Grapes”
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Georgia McKinley
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Nonfiction
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Alfred Werner
Two Austrian Expressionists -
Elsa Gress Wright
Danish Film: The Living Dreyer -
Keith Botsford
About Borges and Not about Borges -
Philip Young
Our Hemingway Man
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Alfred Werner
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Poetry
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Richmond Lattimore
My Uncle -
David Galler
Cinderella -
Leonard E. Nathan
To Go In -
Lawrence P. Spingarn
Script for a Western Movie (Censored) -
Larry Rubin
Foreknowledge -
Kenneth Pitchford
Odysseus with the Oar -
Richmond Lattimore
Old Hemingway -
Roger Hecht
Ditty -
Lawrence P. Spingarn
The Pioneer -
Leonard Nathan
Either/Or
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Richmond Lattimore
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Book Reviews
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Marcus Klein
Fiction North and South -
John A. Goldsmith
Last Year in Foggy Bottom -
Alvin C. Kibel
Literary Culture: Social Reason -
Russell Kirk
Rhetoricians and Politicians
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Marcus Klein
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Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment
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Joseph Bennett
Italian Film: Failure and Emergence
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Joseph Bennett
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Summer 1964
Vol. XXVI No. 3
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Five Stories from Hot Countries
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Khushwant Singh
The Wog -
Clarice Lispector
Marmosets -
Clarice Lispector
The Smallest Woman in the World -
V. S. Naipaul
The Baker’s Story -
Clarice Lispector
A Hen
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Khushwant Singh
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Nonfiction
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F. D. Reeve
The Work of Russian Poetry Today -
John Russell
There It Is -
Nathalie Babel
“No Time to Finish”: Notes on Isaac Babel
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F. D. Reeve
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Poetry
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Howard Nemerov
Interiors -
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Blindfold -
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Utopia -
Harold Witt
When the Prince Kissed -
Howard Nemerov
Summer’s Elegy
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Howard Nemerov
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Book Reviews
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Ronald Berman
Shakespeare: Some Recent Books -
Harvey Curtis Webster
Without a Peer -
David Galler
Versions of Accident -
David Madden
Enemies of Love -
Leslie Paul
The Spire That Stayed out in the Cold -
Leonard E. Nathan
King Henry the Eighth and Much Ado about Nothing -
Michael Langham
The Comedy of Errors and the Rape of Lucrece -
Alan S. Downer
Shakespeare Preserv’d
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Ronald Berman
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Spring 1964
Vol. XXVI No. 2
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Nonfiction
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Hilary Corke
An Evening with Verena -
Michael Fixler
The Redeemers: Themes in the Fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer -
Ronald Berman
Rochester and the Defeat of the Senses
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Hilary Corke
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Three Irish Comedies
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Sheila Negig
A Pot of Soothing Herbs -
Benedict Kiely
A Bottle of Brown Sherry -
Betty Wahl
A Shorter History of the Irish People
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Sheila Negig
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Poetry
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Howard Nemerov
For Robert Frost, in the Autumn after His Death -
William McLeod Rivera
Bones and Lavish -
Michael Mott
Sir John by Starlight -
Michael Mott
For Wise Men . . . -
Frederick Bock
Miss Jack -
James Dickey
The Second Sleep -
Robert Hollander
Heart Failure -
John Taylor
The Wolf in the Picture: A Short Story -
John Taylor
A Dead Girl -
Horace Hamilton
Letter from a Surgeon’s Wife -
Howard Nemerov
Learning by Doing -
Robert Wallace
A Sight of the Negro Funeral
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Howard Nemerov
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Book Reviews
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Germaine Brée
Interrogations of the World -
Thomas MacIntyre
The Deadly Corkman -
Kenyon Review
Shorter Reviews: Spanish Painting -
Kenyon Review
Shorter Reviews: Jacob Epstein, Sculptor -
Kenyon Review
Shorter Reviews: What Is American in American Art -
Martin Green
A Sling against Goliath -
Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
Well Worth the Saying -
Jeffrey Hart
Enlightenments: French and English -
Kenyon Review
Shorter Reviews: French Painting: From Fouquet to Poussin -
Alvin C. Kibel
Academic Circles
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Germaine Brée
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Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment
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Anthony Ostroff
A Dark Plot -
George Hemphill
A Taste of Ashes
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Anthony Ostroff
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Winter 1964
Vol. XXVI No. 1
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Introduction
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Editors
To John Crowe Ransom
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Editors
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Five Poems for John Crowe Ransom
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Robert Lowell
The Neo-Classical Urn -
Robert Lowell
Night Sweat -
Robert Lowell
Those Before Us -
Robert Lowell
Dropping South: Brazil -
Robert Lowell
The Lesson
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Robert Lowell
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Fiction
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Jean Stafford
The Tea Time of Stouthearted Ladies -
Nadine Gordimer
One Whole Year, and Even More -
Robert Penn Warren
It’s a Long Way from Central Park to Fiddlersburg -
Peter Taylor
There
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Jean Stafford
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Nonfiction
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Cleanth Brooks
W. H. Auden as a Critic -
Richard Ellmann
Yeats without Analogue -
R. P. Blackmur
The Charterhouse of Parma -
W. H. Auden
A Symposium on W. H. Auden’s “A Change of Air” -
Leslie A. Fiedler
A Kind of Solution: The Situation of Poetry Now -
Eric Bentley
Bertolt Brecht’s First Play -
John Crowe Ransom
The Planetary Poet
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Cleanth Brooks
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Poetry
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Robert Graves
Man Does, Woman Is -
Robert Graves
In Disguise -
Robert Graves
The Leap -
Robert Graves
All I Tell You from My Heart -
Robert Graves
To Myrto about Herself -
Robert Graves
In Time -
Richmond Lattimore
Late Alone -
Richmond Lattimore
Lord Bountiful’s Raid -
Richmond Lattimore
Begin Autumn Here -
John Berryman
Three Dream Songs -
Randall Jarrell
Woman -
Howard Nemerov
The Human Condition
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Robert Graves
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Autumn 1963
Vol. XXV No. 4
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Fiction
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Leonard Wolf
Fifty-Fifty -
John Stewart Carter
To a Tenor Dying Old
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Leonard Wolf
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Nonfiction
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Raymond Williams
Tolstoy, Lawrence, and Tragedy -
Daniel Curley
Katherine Anne Porter: The Larger Plan -
Martin Green
Science and Sensibility
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Raymond Williams
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Poetry
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Richard Hugo
The Anacortes-Sydney Run -
Lewis Turco
A Family Celebration -
William Stafford
Scenario -
Leonard E. Nathan
The Lawn Afterward -
David Posner
Roscommon Castle -
William Stafford
Successful Person -
Richard Hugo
Eileen -
William Stafford
The Day after Then -
Michael Goldman
The Eye: From a Museum Bench
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Richard Hugo
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Book Reviews
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F. D. Reeve
Listen for the Pistol Shot -
John A. Meixner
The All-Purpose Quest -
Harvey Curtis Webster
Farce and Faith -
Geoffrey H. Hartman
Beyond the Middle Style -
Aaron Rosen
The Sound of Auden -
Pamela Hansford Johnson
The Art of Optics -
Philip Stratford
What Seems Is
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F. D. Reeve
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Summer 1963
Vol. XXV No. 3
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Fiction
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James McCormick
Wunderjude -
Frieda Arkin
The Broomstick on the Porch -
Arthur Heiserman
A Shabbas-Goy -
William Sayres
The Wrong Play
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James McCormick
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Nonfiction
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Jonathan Baumbach
The Economy of Love: The Novels of Bernard Malamud -
D. J. Smith
Music in the Victorian Novel -
Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
The Self Recaptured -
Maximillian E. Novak
Robinson Crusoe and Economic Utopia
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Jonathan Baumbach
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Poetry
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Carolyn Kizer
Rain There -
Robert Pack
Self-Portrait -
Carolyn Kizer
Drinking with Friends There -
David R. Slavitt
Ride the High Country -
Carolyn Kizer
I Go Too -
Turner Cassity
Theatro Amazonas (Manaos) -
Carolyn Kizer
Spring Goes -
Carolyn Kizer
Drinking There Alone -
John William Corrington
The Mystic -
R. E. Sebenthall
Easter Island -
Dilys Laing
Now the Instructed Mind -
Arthur M. Sampley
The Prologue in the Dressing Room
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Carolyn Kizer
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Book Reviews
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Harry T. Moore
Lawrence from All Sides -
Geoffrey Dutton
No More Provinces -
Diana Josselson
A Clockwork Orange -
Ronald Berman
Hostis Humani Generis -
Howard Moss
Make It Vague
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Harry T. Moore
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Spring 1963
Vol. XXV No. 2
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Fiction
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John Hermann
The Portrait -
Doris Lessing
One off the Short List -
Nancy Huddleston Packer
Shadow of an Eagle
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John Hermann
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Nonfiction
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George P. Elliott
A Piece of Lettuce -
James K. Feibleman
Camus and the Passion of Humanism -
Roger Shattuck
Making Time: A Study of Stravinsky, Proust, and Sartre -
Paul West
Leoquentia Standing Still: The Novel in Modern Spain
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George P. Elliott
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Poetry
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David Galler
Along the Volcano -
Michael Goldman
The Loop -
Richard Eberhart
A New England View: My Report -
Michael Goldman
Epithalamion -
John S. Eells Jr.
Pharaoh Neco -
David Posner
Venetian Summer -
Alfred M. Lee
Aubade -
Frederick Bock
Stock
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David Galler
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Book Reviews
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Samuel Hynes
The Homer of Lost Causes -
Guy Daniels
Of Times and Their Heroes -
Marcus Klein
We Have Always Lived in Axel’s Castle -
Thomas H. Carter
Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller: A Private Correspondence -
Edward Seidensticker
A Key but No Lock -
Wilton Dillon
The Thinker as Playwright -
Irving Malin
Occasions for Loving -
F. D. Reeve
The House of the Living -
Geoffrey H. Hartman
No Marvellous Boys
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Samuel Hynes
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Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment
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Karl Shapiro
From “The Bourgeois Poet” -
William S. Pechter
Last Night at Marienbad
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Karl Shapiro
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