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Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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Winter 1957

Vol. XIX No. 1

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- Nonfiction
  - Francis Fergusson
    The Human Image¹
  - M. H. Abrams
    The Correspondent Breeze: A Romantic Metaphor
  - R. W. B. Lewis
    The Fiction of Graham Greene: Between the Horror and the Glory
  - James Hall
    The Fiction of Henry Greene: Paradoxes of Pleasure-and-Pain
  - Walter Kaufmann
    German Thought Today
  - Parker Tyler
    Lust for Lifelikeness
  - Richard Ellmann
    Wallace Stevens’ Ice-Cream
  - George Hemphill
    The Meters of the Intermediate Poets
- Poetry
  - Robert Mezey
    Corinna in Vendome
  - Robert Mezey
    The Groundkeeper’s Complaint
  - Robert Mezey
    Dusk Near a Mental Hospital
  - Theodore Holmes
    Journeys
  - Robert Penn Warren
    Ballad of a Sweet Dream of Peace
- Book Reviews
  - Robert C. Stephenson
    Racine and the English Ear
  - Milton Hindus
    New Appraisals of Whitman
  - J. B. Lanes
    The Extraordinary Char
  - Edgar Bogardus
    The Flights of Love
  - John Peter
    Through the Looking-Glass
  - Henry Popkin
    Drama for People Who Know Everything
Autumn 1956

Vol. XVIII No. 4

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- Fiction
  - Elaine Zimbel
    Margie, This Is Your Father
  - William Van O’Connor
    The Retirement of Professor John Underhill
- Nonfiction
  - Barbara Watson
    The Dangers of Security: E. E. Cummings’ Revolt against the Future
  - Wayland Young
    Summer Letter from London
  - Robert Fitzgerald
    A Note on Ezra Pound, 1928-56¹
  - John Peter
    Joyce and the Novel
  - B. L. Reid
    Johnson’s Life of Boswell
  - Henry David Aiken
    Philip Blair Rice and His Philosophy
  - Howard Nemerov
    The Marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta
- Poetry
  - Douglas Nichols
    Roman Spring
  - Douglas Nichols
    Of Spinster Ladies and Flowers
  - Ruth Stone
    Memoir
  - Ruth Stone
    Ballet
  - Ruth Stone
    When Wishes Were Fishes
  - Ruth Stone
    Confusion in the Occident
  - Edgar Bogardus
    The Man with the Golden Helmet
  - Edgar Bogardus
    The Lament of Orpheus
- Communications
  - Seymour Chatman
    Communication
- Book Reviews
  - Henry Popkin
    O’Casey
  - Harry T. Moore
    Lawrence as Critic
  - John Hollander
    Past Reason Hunted
  - Maurice Beebe
    Whose Joyce?
Summer 1956

Vol. XVIII No. 3

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- English Verse and What It Sounds Like
  - Seymour Chatman
    Mr. Stein on Donne
  - Harold Whitehall
    From Linguistics to Criticism
  - Seymour Chatman
    Robert Frost’s “Mowing”: An Inquiry into Prosodic Structure
  - John Crowe Ransom
    The Strange Music of English Verse
  - Arnold Stein
    A Note on Meter
  - Arnold Stein
    Donne’s Prosody
- Fiction
  - Flannery O’Connor
    Greenleaf
- Nonfiction
  - D. W. Harding
    Progression of Theme in Eliot’s Modern Plays¹
  - Richard Chase
    Cable and His “Grandissimes”
- Poetry
  - David R. Slavitt
    Warning
  - David R. Slavitt
    Partiti Da Cotesti Che Son Morti
  - David R. Slavitt
    Great Grandfather
  - W. S. Merwin
    The Nine Days of Creation
  - Theodore Holmes
    A Prayer for Rain
  - Richard Eberhart
    Sermon on the Amount of Love
- Book Reviews
  - Richard G. Stern
    Proust and Joyce Underway: Jean Santeuil and Stephen Hero
  - John Oliver Perry
    Romantics, Victorians, and Biedermeier
  - A. Alvarez
    Lawrence, Leavis, and Eliot
Spring 1956

Vol. XVIII No. 2

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- A Hundred Years after Kierkegaard
  - Walter Kaufmann
    Kierkegaard
  - Albert William Levi
    The Three Masks
- Fiction
  - Howard Nemerov
    An Encounter with the Law
- Nonfiction
  - Leslie A. Fiedler
    Green Thoughts in a Green Shade: Reflections on the Stony Sestina of Dante Alighieri
  - Philip Rahv
    Fiction and the Criticism of Fiction¹
- Poetry
  - Herbert Morris
    This Alice
  - Herbert Morris
    Twenty-Eight
  - John Ashbery
    A Long Novel
  - John Ashbery
    Two Scenes
  - Margaret Avison
    From a Provincial
  - Margaret Avison
    Knowledge of Age
  - Margaret Avison
    The Apex Animal
  - Margaret Avison
    New Year’s Poem
  - John Logan
    Narcissus: Vision and Retrospect
  - Robert Fitzgerald
    Spring Shade
  - Theodore Holmes
    The Life of the Estate
- Book Reviews
  - R. W. B. Lewis
    Poetry and Change
  - Francis Fergusson
    A Memory for the Theatre
  - Lawrence Janofsky
    The Brothers Adams
  - R. P. Blackmur
    Emily Dickinson’s Notation
  - Emerson R. Marks
    The Uses of Dr. Johnson
  - Thomas H. Carter
    Rationalist in Hell
  - B. H. Haggin
    Musical Performance
Winter 1956

Vol. XVIII No. 1

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- Nonfiction
  - Mark Schorer
    Pride Unprejudiced
  - William Empson
    The Theme of Ulysses
  - Newton P. Stallknecht
    On Poetry and Geometric Truth¹
  - Richard Ellmann
    A Portrait of the Artist as Friend
  - Mary O. Hivnor
    Theatre Letter
- Drama
  - Peter Taylor
    Tennessee Day in St. Louis
- Poetry
  - Josephine Miles
    The Savages
  - Josephine Miles
    Sheep
  - Josephine Miles
    Monkey
  - Josephine Miles
    Dog
  - Josephine Miles
    Fish
  - Josephine Miles
    Panther
  - Harry C. Morris
    Ontology for Beginners
  - Harry C. Morris
    Pygmalion
  - Harry C. Morris
    Stanzas to Be Placed under Fouquet’s Madonna
  - Dannie Abse
    The Trial
  - Theodore Roethke
    Two Poems
- Book Reviews
  - Vivienne Koch
    The Truth about Hulme
  - Monroe K. Spears
    Hogarth Popularized
  - R. W. B. Lewis
    The Private Soul
  - John Hollander
    Organized Violence
  - Howard Nemerov
    Just a Good Poet
  - Robie Macauley
    A McCarthy Inquiry
  - Lawrence Janofsky
    In Quest of Maturity
  - Henry David Aiken
    Presumption and Petulance
Autumn 1955

Vol. XVII No. 4

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- Fiction
  - Daniel Curley
    The Appointed Hour
- Nonfiction
  - Francis Fergusson
    The Search for New Standards in the Theatre¹
  - B. H. Haggin
    Berlioz
  - R. P. Blackmur
    Adams Goes to School
  - Robert Evett
    Music Letter: Trouble on Bleecker Street
  - Arthur Mizener
    The Thin, Intelligent Face of American Fiction¹
- Poetry
  - Delmore Schwartz
    The First Morning of the Second World
- Book Reviews
  - Warren Babb
    Patriot Historian
  - Henry David Aiken
    Aesthetics on the Stretch
  - Quentin Anderson
    Emerson Changed His Mind
  - Charles S. Singleton
    Dark Wood of Allegory
  - Lawrence Leighton
    Ecstasy through Compulsion
  - Roberta Teale Swartz
    Fire in the Raven’s Nest
  - Walter Elder
    That Region
Summer 1955

Vol. XVII No. 3

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- Fiction
  - William Goyen
    Old Wildwood
  - Howard Nemerov
    Tradition
- Nonfiction
  - H. W. Wardman
    La Chartreuse de Parme: Ironical Ambiguity
  - Francis Fergusson
    Don Perlimplin: Lorca’s Theatre-Poetry
  - R. P. Blackmur
    Reflections of Toynbee
  - John Crowe Ransom
    The Concrete Universal: Observations on the Understanding of Poetry II
  - Edwin Honig
    That Mutation of Pound’s¹
- Poetry
  - David R. Clark
    Norwottock
  - David R. Clark
    The Mantis (To a Vegetarian, Pacifist, Mystic)
  - David R. Clark
    The Circular Track
  - David R. Clark
    Asylum
  - Ruth Herschberger
    To S. R.
  - Ruth Herschberger
    My Dear He Dress in Scarlet
  - Peter Viereck
    I Am an Old Town-Square
  - Peter Viereck
    Looking up Again and Again while Walking
  - William Carlos Williams
    Of Asphodel
  - Richard Eberhart
    Using the Meditative Means
- A Communication
  - Gilbert Chase
    The Music of Charles Ives
- Book Reviews
  - Austin Warren
    Religious Meditation and Religious Poetry
  - Lawrence Leighton
    Historical Fiction
  - Howard Nemerov
    A Wild Civility
  - Robert Phelps
    Walking Naked
  - Edwin Honig
    Proud of His Scientific Attitude
  - Frederick J. Hoffman
    The Consequence of Fame
Spring 1955

Vol. XVII No. 2

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- Fiction
  - Leslie A. Fiedler
    The Dancing of Reb Hershl with the Withered Hand
  - Flannery O’Connor
    The Artificial Nigger
  - Eleanor Clark
    The Head in the Parlor
- Nonfiction
  - Mary O. Hivnor
    Theatre Letter
  - Geoffrey Moore
    Dylan Thomas
  - Robie Macauley
    Stranger, Tread Light¹
- Poetry
  - Dannie Abse
    Elegy for Dylan Thomas
  - Dannie Abse
    Duality
  - Konstantinos Kavaphes
    Waiting for the Barbarians
  - Richmond Lattimore
    Loutsa Beach (On the Coast near Marathon)
  - Ivan Goll
    Jean le Fleuve / John the River
- Book Reviews
  - Ray B. West,
    The Unities of Modern Fiction
  - Robert Lowell
    The Muses Won’t Help Twice
  - Theodore Hoffman
    47 Workshop
  - Henry David Aiken
    Inductive Criticism
  - Sally Wood
    How Is Your Novel Going?
Winter 1955

Vol. XVII No. 1

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- Fiction
  - Robie Macauley
    The Chevigny Man
- Nonfiction
  - Kermit Lansner
    Art Letter
  - R. P. Blackmur
    The Substance That Prevails¹
  - Irving Howe
    Dostoevsky: The Politics of Salvation
  - Walter Kaufmann
    Nietzsche and Rilke
  - R. W. B. Lewis
    Fiction and Power: Some Notes on Ignazio Silone
  - Geoffrey Moore
    The Significance of Bloomsbury¹
- Poetry
  - Edgar Bogardus
    In This Hotel There Are No Rooms (A sign outside a Hotel in Venice)
  - Edgar Bogardus
    The Closet
  - David Ferry
    My Parents Enroute
  - David Ferry
    The Embarkation for Cythera
  - Douglas Nichols
    A Mothers’ Idyll
  - Douglas Nichols
    Hermes in California
  - Douglas Nichols
    Letter to the World
  - Douglas Nichols
    The Creative Urge
  - David Ferry
    The Sage by the Sea-Shore
  - Joseph Warren Beach
    Initial Letters
  - Joseph Warren Beach
    Malentendu
  - W. P. Southard
    Winter Landscape, Tien Shan
- Book Reviews
  - Paul Goodman
    They’ve Been Good Enough Long Enough¹
  - Denham Sutcliffe
    An Essay on Robinson’s Reading
  - Virgil C. Aldrich
    The Space of the Senses
  - Robert Richman
    A Theory of Everyday Art
  - Howard Nemerov
    Sansom’s Fictions
  - M. H. Abrams
    The Newer Criticism: Prisoner of Logical Positivism?
Autumn 1954

Vol. XVI No. 4

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- Fiction
  - Daniel Curley
    To Ask the Hard Question Is Easy
  - Wright Morris
    The Safe Place
- Nonfiction
  - John Crowe Ransom
    The Concrete Universal: Observations on the Understanding of Poetry
  - Bert M-P. Leefmans
    Giraudoux’s Other Muse
  - Robert Evett
    Music Letter: A Post-Mortem for Mr. Ives
  - Richard Blackmur
    Toward a Modus Vivendi
  - Leslie A. Fiedler
    Introducing Cesare Pavese
- Poetry
  - Randall Jarrell
    The End of the Rainbow
- Book Reviews
  - Philip Blair Rice
    Faulkner’s Crucifixion
  - Philip Rieff
    Eros Cross-Examined
  - Virgil C. Aldrich
    New Aesthetics
  - Vivienne Koch
    “What’s Past Is Prologue”
  - Wayland Young
    Isherwood in the Afternoon
Summer 1954

Vol. XVI No. 3

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- Fiction
  - Kathleen Sproul
    A Fine and Private Place
  - Mortimer Slaiman
    Who’s Bitter?
- Nonfiction
  - Herbert Spiegelberg
    French Existentialism: Its Social Philosophies
  - Philip Blair Rice
    The Intellectual Quarterly in a Non-Intellectual Society
  - Parker Tyler
    Movie Note: The 3-D’s
  - Mary O. Hivnor
    Theatre Letter
  - Richard Ellmann
    The Backgrounds of Ulysses
- Poetry
  - Robert Mezey
    An Acquittal
  - Peter Viereck
    To My Isis
  - John Woods
    The Deaths at Paragon, Indiana
  - Lysander Kemp
    In the Flowering Forest
  - Robert Mezey
    Pakim Pond, New Jersey
- Communications
  - Libuse Lukas Miller
    Communication
- Book Reviews
  - Thomas H. Carter
    Ezra Pound the Critic
  - Newton P. Stallknecht
    The Prelude Sans Coleridge
  - W. S. Merwin
    The Translation of Verse
  - Walter Kaufmann
    Existentialism Tamed
  - Arthur Mizener
    Transformations
Spring 1954

Vol. XVI No. 2

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- Fiction
  - Caroline Gordon
    The Feast of St. Eustace
  - Flannery O’Connor
    A Circle in the Fire
  - Richard G. Stern
    Cooley’s Version
  - Wayland Hilton Young
    The Glass Trumpet
- Nonfiction
  - Austin Warren
    The Very Reverend Dr. Donne
  - Paul Valéry
    Poetry and Abstract Thought
  - Charles M. Coffin
    Donne’s Divinity
  - Robert Martin Adams
    Donne and Eliot: Metaphysicals
- Poetry
  - Edwin Watkins
    A Monument for Norfleet
- Communications
  - G. R. Elliott
    Othello Is Saved
  - Bernard Landis
    Hugh MacDiarmid
- Book Reviews
  - M. H. Abrams
    The Truth about Dr. Johnson
  - Henry Popkin
    American Comedy
  - R. W. B. Lewis
    Spectroscope for Ideas
  - René Wellek
    Auerbach’s Special Realism
  - Harold Whitehall
    The Sounds in Their Courses