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Winter 1960
Vol. XXII No. 1
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Fiction
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John Thompson
Goodbye Now -
Harriet Gail
The Ritual -
James M. Stitt
The Poacher
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John Thompson
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Nonfiction
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Alfred Werner
Epstein’s Three Faces -
John Barth
Landscape: The Eastern Shore -
F. D. Reeve
Doctor Zhivago: From Prose to Verse -
George Steiner
Georg Lukács and His Devil’s Pact -
Arthur Mizener
A Dance to the Music of Time: The Novels of Anthony Powell -
John McCormick
The Frozen Country
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Alfred Werner
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Poetry
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Mark Van Doren
Young Herbert -
Mark Van Doren
The Time to Come -
Harold Fleming
Boy Asleep -
Mark Van Doren
Let Me Listen -
Harold Fleming
What the Cocks Knew -
Irving Feldman
Goya
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Mark Van Doren
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Book Reviews
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Jackson Mathews
Conversation with Sylvia Beach & Company -
Lionel Abel
Eric Bentley’s Classics -
Maureen Howard
This Long Disease, My Life -
Editors
Once over Lightly: Saint Judas -
Editors
Once over Lightly: The Cave -
Helen C. White
Double Vocations -
Editors
Once over Lightly: Happy Families Are All Alike -
Mercer Cook
Antilles Men
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Jackson Mathews
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Autumn 1959
Vol. XXI No. 4
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Fiction
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F. H. Rouda
The Mice -
Paul Goodman
A Visit to Chartres -
David Antin
The Balanced Aquarium
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F. H. Rouda
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Nonfiction
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Martin Green
British Decency -
Paul West
Malraux’s Genteel Humanism -
Philip Stratford
One Meeting with Mauriac -
Arnold Stein
The Image of Antony: Lyric and Tragic Imagination -
Newton P. Stallknecht
Absence in Reality: A Study in the Epistemology of the Blue Guitar
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Martin Green
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Poetry
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Albert Herzing
The Spent Substance - Priam and Akhilles (“Iliad” XXIV, 159-237)
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Albert Herzing
A Winter’s World -
James Dickey
Awaiting the Swimmer
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Albert Herzing
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Book Reviews
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R. P. Blackmur
Homo Ludens -
Denis Donoghue
Off Center -
Richard G. Stern
Henderson’s Bellow -
Kenneth Burke
Democracy of the Sick -
Irving Kreutz
But Is It Drama?
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R. P. Blackmur
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Summer 1959
Vol. XXI No. 3
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Fiction
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Peter Taylor
Who Was Jesse’s Friend and Protector?
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Peter Taylor
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Nonfiction
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Denis Donoghue
The Vigour of Its Blood: Yeats’s “Words for Music Perhaps” -
R. P. Blackmur
Edwin Muir: Between the Tiger’s Paws -
Peter Kline
The Spiritual Center in Eliot’s Plays -
William J. Handy
As I Lay Dying: Faulkner’s Inner Reporter -
Kenneth Burke
On Catharsis, or Resolution
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Denis Donoghue
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Poetry
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Alan Shavzin
Of the Son, of the Father -
Herbert Morris
Tony Said -
Herbert Morris
Fabulists -
Herbert Morris
A -
Alan Shavzin
Commencement Picture: Kenyon College -
Melvyn Baron
La Victoire de Samothrace -
Richmond Lattimore
Andritsaina Revisited -
Richmond Lattimore
Poussin’s World: Two Paintings -
Melvyn Baron
Christmas at Ulm
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Alan Shavzin
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Book Reviews
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John Thompson
Two Poets -
Gerald Weales
The Latest Eliot -
George Dennison
The Tetralogy Concluded -
Paul Goodman
The American Writer and His Americanism -
Lionel Abel
Virile Sophistication
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John Thompson
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Spring 1959
Vol. XXI No. 2
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Fiction
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Richard G. Stern
The Assessment of an Amateur
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Richard G. Stern
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Nonfiction
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Gerald Weales
Theatre Letter -
Howard Nemerov
The Poetry of Reed Whittemore -
Glenn Pedersen
Forster’s Symbolic Form -
Albert Cook
Modern Verse: Diffusion as a Principle of Composition -
Walter J. Ong
Personalism and the Wilderness -
William Van O’Connor
Faulkner on Broadway -
John Hollander
The Metrical Emblem¹ -
Ernest Borneman
Credo Quia Absurdum: An Epitaph for Bertolt Brecht
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Gerald Weales
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Poetry
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Martin Halpern
The After-Dream -
I. A. Richards
Lighting Fires in Snow¹ -
Martin Halpern
The Myopic Musician -
I. A. Richards
The Screens
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Martin Halpern
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Book Reviews
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Henry Popkin
Theatre: Its Secondary Literature -
Daniel F. Howard
The New Criticism of the Novel -
Donald Sutherland
An Open Book on Open Structure
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Henry Popkin
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Winter 1959
Vol. XXI No. 1
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Fiction
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Priscilla Heath
The Other Woman
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Priscilla Heath
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Nonfiction
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Lucia Dickerson
Portrait of the Artist as a Jung Man -
A. Alvarez
Intelligence on Tour¹ -
John Crowe Ransom
The Idea of a Literary Anthropologist And What He Might Say of the “Paradise Lost” of Milton: A Speech with a Prologue -
Morgan Blum
Promises as Fulfillment -
R. P. Blackmur
The Logos in the Catacomb: The Role of the Intellectual
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Lucia Dickerson
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Poetry
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Irving Feldman
Works and Days
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Irving Feldman
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Book Reviews
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Francis Golffing
Humanist in the Enemy Camp -
M. D. Feld
Old Nick and New Adam -
James M. Cox
The Gestures of Robert Frost -
Henry Gifford
A Point of Patience -
Richard D. Stern
Doctor Zhivago as a Novel
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Francis Golffing
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Autumn 1958
Vol. XX No. 4
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Nonfiction
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Kingsley Widmer
D. H. Lawrence and the Art of Nihilism -
Kenneth Burke
Towards a Post-Kantian Verbal Music -
Roy Harvey Pearce
Historicism Once More -
Sidney Tillim
The Pedestals of Brancusi -
Richard Ellmann
The Backgrounds of “The Dead” -
Paul Goodman
Notes on a Remark of Seami -
Parker Tyler
Film Letter: On the Cult of Displaced Laughter
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Kingsley Widmer
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Poetry
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James Wright
With the Gift of a Feather -
Edwin Honig
Corrales 1948 -
James Wright
All the Beautiful Are Blameless -
Robert Penn Warren
Switzerland -
Robert Penn Warren
Penthesilea and Achilles: Fatal Interview -
Edwin Honig
Near Hope in Providence -
James Wright
Safety -
James Wright
A Girl Walking into a Shadow
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James Wright
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Book Reviews
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Henry Popkin
Jewish Stories -
Nona Balakian
Three Post-Psychological Novels -
James Wright
The Stiff Smile of Mr. Warren -
Mary O. Hivnor
The Other Language -
Howard Nemerov
Iniquity It Is; But Pass the Can -
Victor Lipton
The Sorrows and Joys of Edward Dahlberg
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Henry Popkin
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Summer 1958
Vol. XX No. 3
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Editor's Notes
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John Crowe Ransom
Edgar Collins Bogardus
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John Crowe Ransom
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Fiction
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David Cornel DeJong
The Drowning -
John Logan
The Last Class
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David Cornel DeJong
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Nonfiction
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R. P. Blackmur
Ara Coeli and Campidoglio -
Samuel French Morse
The Native Element -
Lawrence E. Bowling
Faulkner and the Theme of Innocence -
Louis R. Rossi
Albert Camus: The Plague of Absurdity
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R. P. Blackmur
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Drama
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Bertolt Brecht
The Life of Confucius
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Bertolt Brecht
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Poetry
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Donald Hall
Christmas Eve in Whitneyville, 1955 -
Edgar Bogardus
Autolycus -
Edgar Bogardus
The Wedding of Venus and Mars -
Delmore Schwartz
Sonnet -
James Merrill
Dream and Waking -
Delmore Schwartz
“At a Solemn Musick” -
Josephine Miles
Voyage -
Edgar Bogardus
Foreign Travel -
Josephine Miles
Aim -
Delmore Schwartz
Poem -
Edgar Bogardus
The Spy to the Hero -
Delmore Schwartz
Once and for All -
Delmore Schwartz
The Sequel -
Delmore Schwartz
Poem (The Foggy, Foggy Playboy) -
Josephine Miles
Magna Carta -
Edgar Bogardus
Nocturne -
Josephine Miles
Deed -
Paul Goodman
Red Jacket (Lake Seneca) -
Edwin Fussell
Olympic -
Delmore Schwartz
Poem
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Donald Hall
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Book Reviews
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Naomi Lebowitz
The Stories of J. F. Powers: The Sign of the Contradiction -
Ralph Cohen
The Treachery of Sincerity -
John Hollander
Catullus
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Naomi Lebowitz
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Spring 1958
Vol. XX No. 2
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Fiction
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Peter Taylor
Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time
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Peter Taylor
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Nonfiction
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Nathan Rosen
Chaos and Dostoyevsky’s Women -
William Empson
Tom Jones -
Gerald Weales
Theatre Letter I -
Murray Krieger
Tragedy and the Tragic Vision -
Henry Popkin
Theatre Letter II -
Howard S. Babb
Dialogue with Feeling: A Note on Pride and Prejudice
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Nathan Rosen
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Poetry
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Albert Herzing
The Candy-Man’s Art Is the Sweetest Art I Know -
Roberta Swartz
Why We Loved Her -
Theodore Holmes
The Knowledge of Our Dream
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Albert Herzing
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Book Reviews
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B. H. Haggin
Harsh Notes among Music Critics -
Kevin Sullivan
Joyce on Joyce -
Arnold Stein
The Criticism of Allegory -
Vivian Mercier
Baudelaire Revisited
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B. H. Haggin
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Winter 1958
Vol. XX No. 1
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Fiction
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Eugene Ziller
The Season’s Dying
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Eugene Ziller
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Nonfiction
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William Van O’Connor
The New University Wits -
John Thompson
Sir Philip and the Forsaken Iamb -
Henry Gifford
W. D. Howells: His Moral Conservatism -
Robert Beloof
Prosody and Tone: The “Mathematics” of Marianne Moore -
Edwin Honig
In Defense of Allegory
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William Van O’Connor
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Poetry
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Sheila Pritchard
The Shattered Air -
Landis Everson
Diamonds in Summery Cities -
Patricia Goedicke
Proudflesh -
Arthur Gregor
Dreams -
R. S. Patton
A City -
R. S. Patton
For Hart -
Patricia Goedicke
Calypso -
Richard Eberhart
The Parker River (To F. R. K.) -
Margaret Tongue
[Let Us Hold the Light of Reason] -
Landis Everson
Angels Who Have Suffered the First Forlornment -
Sheila Pritchard
Point of Change -
Landis Everson
Tiger Watch -
Margaret Tongue
[If Anyone Could Tame a Unicorn] -
Michael M. Fried
The Fossil Indian (For James J. Kernan) -
Alan Marshfield
Pilgrim -
John Pauker
At the Beach -
R. S. Patton
Mishap -
Margaret Tongue
After a Painting by M. Vanka: The Yugoslav Artist -
Arthur Gregor
The Old Canal at New Hope, Pa. -
Patricia Goedicke
Circumnavigation -
Landis Everson
Sang My Name
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Sheila Pritchard
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Book Reviews
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R. P. Blackmur
Obscuris Vera Involvens -
Robie Macauley
Two Renaissance Novels -
Howard Nemerov
Younger Poets: The Lyric Difficulty -
Richard G. Stern
A Perverse Fiction -
Mark Rowan
How Many Lives Has a Poet? -
Martin Lebowitz
The Founding Fathers and the Oedipus Complex -
Thomas Parkinson
Contesting a Will
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R. P. Blackmur
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Autumn 1957
Vol. XIX No. 4
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Fiction
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Kenneth Burke
The Anaesthetic Revelation of Herone Liddell -
Wayland Young
The Admirer
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Kenneth Burke
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Nonfiction
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John Peter
The Fables of William Golding¹ -
Frederick J. Hoffman
Psychology and Literature¹ -
Alfred Werner
Art Letter: Dr. Picasso and The Toothache
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John Peter
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Poetry
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Frederick Morgan
Scene -
Frederick Morgan
Etude -
Frederick Morgan
The Last Days -
David Ferry
The Bird -
David Ferry
The Milkmaid -
David Ferry
The Soldier -
David Cornel DeJong
Hail and Farewell -
David Cornel DeJong
Man in a Secret Cottage -
David Cornel DeJong
Loneliness Is an Open Cage -
John Hollander
The Sun Dial -
Theodore Weiss
An Egyptian Passage -
Jean Garrigue
For a Holy Day in Naples -
Jean Garrigue
For the New Come to Elysium
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Frederick Morgan
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Book Reviews
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Charles Feidelson, Jr.
An Act of Appropriation -
Vivienne Koch
Grocer’s Lists -
Harold Whitehall
The Elusive Word -
Robie Macauley
Big Novel -
Stanley Edgar Hyman
Palpable Designs -
Thomas H. Carter
That Hard Sophoclean Light -
Virgil C. Aldrich
Believing and Burning
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Charles Feidelson, Jr.
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Summer 1957
Vol. XIX No. 3
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Fiction
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Anthony Ostroff
La Bataille des Fleurs -
Howard Nemerov
A Delayed Hearing
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Anthony Ostroff
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Nonfiction
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William Empson
Donne the Space Man -
Paul Valéry
The Existence of Symbolism -
Wayland Young
Letter from London -
Vivian Mercier
The Limitations of Flaubert
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William Empson
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Poetry
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Lloyd Parks
Shrine -
Lloyd Parks
Elegy -
Lloyd Parks
Neither Black nor White -
Joseph Joel Keith
In the First House -
Joseph Joel Keith
Party Line -
Joseph Joel Keith
Dark and Glare -
Charles Monroe Coffin
Evening at the Athenaeum
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Lloyd Parks
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Communication
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Marvin Mudrick
Communication: Mr. Stallman’s Remarks
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Marvin Mudrick
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Book Reviews
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B. H. Haggin
Concerning Opera -
Marshall Cohen
Niebuhr’s Thinking -
Arthur Mizener
Spring Fiction
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B. H. Haggin
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Spring 1957
Vol. XIX No. 2
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Fiction
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John Wain
A Few Drinks with Alcock and Brown -
Robie Macauley
Legend of Two Swimmers
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John Wain
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Nonfiction
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Frank Kermode
Dissociation of Sensibility -
H. R. Hays
Satire and Identification: An Introduction to Ben Jonson¹ -
Wayland Young
London Letter -
Albert J. Guerard
The Nigger of the Narcissus -
Robert Stallman
Fiction and Its Critics: A Reply to Mr. Rahv
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Frank Kermode
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Poetry
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Herbert Morris
The Road -
W. S. Merwin
Coal Barges -
W. S. Merwin
A Wit in Age -
W. S. Merwin
The Miner -
Isabella Fey
Cadmus -
Theodore Holmes
The Lovers in the Graveyard
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Herbert Morris
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Book Reviews
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Irving Feldman
Pierrot Unearthed -
A. Alvarez
Imagism and Poetesses -
Howard Nemerov
The Morality of Art -
Quentin Anderson
Saints or Single Hounds? -
William Van O’Connor
Another Chapter on Bloomsbury -
M. H. Abrams
Professional Aesthetics
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Irving Feldman
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Errata
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Editors
Errata, Peccata
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Editors
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