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Winter 1948
Vol. X No. 1
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Poetry
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Wallace Stevens
The Auroras of Autumn -
David Cornel DeJong
Accidentals -
Robert Horan
Two Poems -
T. Weiss
After Five Years -
Robert Lowell
Falling Asleep over the Aeneid
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Wallace Stevens
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Fiction
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Mary Barnard
Three Fables -
T. D. Mabry
The Vault
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Mary Barnard
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Nonfiction
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Lionel Trilling
Manners, Morals, and the Novel¹ -
Harry Levin
Flaubert: Portrait of the Artist as a Saint (Reconsiderations IX) -
Eliseo Vivas
Kafka’s Distorted Mask -
Walter Terry
The Firstness of Dance -
Edwin Denby
Dance Criticism -
Stanley Edgar Hyman
The Critical Achievement of Caroline Spurgeon -
Philip Blair Rice
A Letter from France -
Parker Tyler
Movie Letter: The Costume Romance
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Lionel Trilling
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A Comunication
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Richard Chase
Radin on Toynbee
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Richard Chase
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Book Reviews
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Peter Viereck
Stevens Revisited -
Leon Reisman
From Caligari to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer -
Wallace Fowlie
Hero Taking His Time -
Virgil C. Aldrich
The Devil of Discord
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Peter Viereck
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Autumn 1947
Vol. IX No. 4
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Poetry
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W. H. Auden
The Duet -
Anthony Hecht
Wind of Spain -
Anthony Hecht
Dream -
Randall Jarrell
The Breath of Night -
Randall Jarrell
The Clock in the Tower of the Church -
Randall Jarrell
Overture: The Hostages -
Randall Jarrell
The Child of Courts -
Peter Viereck
From Ancient Fangs -
Josephine Miles
Aboriginal -
Josephine Miles
Kind -
Josephine Miles
Expectation -
Josephine Miles
An Apprehension -
Josephine Miles
Riddle -
Josephine Miles
Countenance -
Josephine Miles
Yield
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W. H. Auden
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Fiction
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Isaac Rosenfeld
The Party
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Isaac Rosenfeld
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Nonfiction
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Richard Chase
The Brontës: A Centennial Observance (Reconsiderations VIII) -
Rainer Maria Rilke
Goodness and Darkness of a Poet: Letters by Rainer Maria Rilke -
William Barrett
Temptations of St. Yvor -
Paul A. Palmer
On the Agenda of Political Theory (Post-War Stock-Taking IV) -
Eric Bentley
“Adapted from the French” -
John Crowe Ransom
Poetry: II, the Final Cause
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Richard Chase
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Book Reviews
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Paul Goodman
Stale Marxism -
Dudley Fitts
Bravado with Brilliance -
Wentzle Ruml III
Two Up, Two Down -
Paul Radin
Gentleman Historian -
Mark Schorer
The American Novel
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Paul Goodman
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Summer 1947
Vol. IX No. 3
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Poetry
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James Merrill
Dancing, Joyously Dancing -
James Merrill
The Drowning Poet -
James Merrill
Cloud Country -
James Merrill
Entrance from Sleep -
Howard Moss
Tears -
Howard Moss
September Song
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James Merrill
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Fiction
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Colette Audry
The Gloves -
Sidney Sulkin
The Plan -
Walter Elder
Roses Are Red
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Colette Audry
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Nonfiction
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Marjorie Grene
Two More Existentialists: Karl Jaspers and Gabriel Marcel -
Donat O’Donnell
The Pieties of Evelyn Waugh -
Malcolm Cowley
“Not Men”: A Natural History of American Naturalism -
John Crowe Ransom
Poetry: I. The Formal Analysis -
Parker Tyler
Movie Letter: Charlie Verdoux -
Quentin Anderson
Theatre Letter
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Marjorie Grene
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Book Reviews
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Daniel Aaron
The Brilliant and Furtive Adams -
Virgil C. Aldrich
Philosophy Making a Bridge -
R. W. Flint
Weltschmerz Refurbished -
Paul Goodman
French Uncle
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Daniel Aaron
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Spring 1947
Vol. IX No. 2
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Editors in Person
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Eric Russell Bentley
Editors in Person: Little Magazines
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Eric Russell Bentley
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Fiction
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Peter Taylor
Allegiance -
Isaac Rosenfeld
The Railroad
-
Peter Taylor
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Nonfiction
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Robert Goldwater
“Evening Storm, Schoodick, Maine” -
Marjorie Grene
L’Homme Est Une Passion Inutile: Sartre and Heidegger -
Francis Fergusson
Action as Passion: “Tristan” and “Murder in the Cathedral” -
Paul Goodman
Kafka’s Prayer¹ -
Hudson D. Walker
Marsden Hartley -
Melvin Rader
Toward a Definition of Cultural Crisis -
Parker Tyler
Movie Letter
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Robert Goldwater
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Poetry
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Peter Viereck
Now Kindness -
Tony Hecht
Once Removed -
Tony Hecht
To a Soldier Killed in Germany -
Muriel Rukeyser
Eyes of Night-Time -
Randall Jarrell
The Rising Sun
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Peter Viereck
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Communication
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Jean Isére
Sartre vs. Proust
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Jean Isére
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Book Reviews
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Howard Moss
Ten Poets -
Robert Warshow
Essence of Judaism -
George Hemphill
Negro Music -
Philip Blair Rice
The Semiotic of Charles Morris -
Dudley Fitts
What Is Troy?
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Howard Moss
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Winter 1947
Vol. IX No. 1
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Kierkegaard
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William G. O’Donnell
The Literary Manner -
Marjorie Grene
The Philosophy
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William G. O’Donnell
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Fiction
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Irwin Edman
The Psychiatrist’s Story
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Irwin Edman
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Nonfiction
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Robert Goldwater
Art Letter -
Robert Penn Warren
Hemingway -
Louis Graff
Pictorial Tragedy -
Robert Foxx
China Letter No. I
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Robert Goldwater
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Poetry
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W. R. Moses
The Meaning of a Scene -
R. P. Blackmur
XII Scarabs for the Living -
Mark Van Doren
Homage to Three -
W. R. Moses
American History -
Brewster Ghiselin
To the South
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W. R. Moses
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Book Reviews
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Joseph Warren Beach
Charitable View of Greatness -
Eric Bentley
Philistines and Films -
Marguerite Young
Metaphysical Fiction -
Alan Downer
Theatre and Poetry Too -
Alfred Kazin
Gorky and the Master Friends -
T. W. Adorno
Wagner, Nietzsche and Hitler -
Robert Redfield
Man Facing His Evil
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Joseph Warren Beach
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Autumn 1946
Vol. VIII No. 4
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Editor's Notes
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Poetry
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Jean Garrigue
False Country of the Zoo -
Robert Lowell
Mary Winslow -
Robert Lowell
At a Bible House -
Robert Lowell
The First Sunday in Lent -
Byron Vazakas
Grandmother -
Byron Vazakas
Palisades Park: 1913
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Jean Garrigue
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Fiction
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Walter Elder
You Can Wreck It -
Arthur Mizener
You Never Go Back to Sleep
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Walter Elder
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Nonfiction
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Quentin Anderson
Henry James and the New Jerusalem: Of Morality and Style -
Horace L. Friess
The Importance of Religion (Post-War Stock-Taking III) -
F. R. Leavis
Doctor Johnson: Reconsiderations VII -
Lionel Trilling
The Life of the Novel -
Constance Smith
Dance Letter
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Quentin Anderson
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Book Reviews
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Eric Bentley
This Is the New Criticism -
Stephen C. Pepper
Art as a Vital Function -
Eleanor Clark
Existentialist Fiction -
Dudley Fitts
The Hellenism of Robinson Jeffers -
D. W. Gotshalk
Liberalism, Earthy and Intellectual -
Mark Brunswick
The Sick Body of Genius
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Eric Bentley
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Summer 1946
Vol. VIII No. 3
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Poetry
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W. G. Van Keuren
For a Loved Daughter -
Randall Jarrell
A Chorus -
Reed Whittemore
On the Record
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W. G. Van Keuren
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Fiction
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Isaac Rosenfeld
The New Egypt -
George Hemphill
The Dirge -
James Grossman
The Honor of Kings -
Boris Pasternak
Aerial Ways
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Isaac Rosenfeld
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Nonfiction
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Eric Bentley
Bernard Shaw’s Politics: A Birthday Tribute¹ -
Robert Penn Warren
A Poem of Pure Imagination: Reconsiderations VI -
Adrienne Monnier
Joyce’s Ulysses and the French Public -
Quentin Anderson
Notes on the Theatre -
Richard Salomon
The Future of Intellectual Germany: Jaspers vs. Undset -
Jean Isére
Des Revues Francaises Apres la Liberation
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Eric Bentley
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Book Reviews
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Isaac Rosenfeld
Isherwood’s Master Theme -
Paul A. Palmer
Political Systems, Religious and Secular -
Mark Brunswick
Rich but Indigestible -
Howard Moss
Poor Teaming -
John Crowe Ransom
Delta Fiction
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Isaac Rosenfeld
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Spring 1946
Vol. VIII No. 2
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Poetry
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John Theobald
Sun of England -
Louis Aragon
Two Poems for France: Lancelot -
Louis Aragon
Two Poems for France: Crusaders -
May Sarton
My Sisters, O My Sisters
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John Theobald
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Fiction
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Delmore Schwartz
A Bitter Farce -
Anais Nin
The Mouse -
Eli Waldron
Mr. Morrissey the Amiable Printer
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Delmore Schwartz
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Nonfiction
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Stephen C. Pepper
The Outlook for Aesthetics: Post-War Stock-Taking II -
Robert Penn Warren
Melville the Poet -
T. Catesby Jones
André Masson: A Comment - Private: A Note by the Translator
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Lawrence Leighton
Valéry: La Poésie Engagée -
André Gide
Paul Valéry -
Jean Hytier
At Valéry’s Funeral¹ -
Berthold Viertel
The Group Theatre¹ -
Isaac Rosenfeld
Dry Watershed
-
Stephen C. Pepper
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Drama
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Bertolt Brecht
The Caucasian Circle of Chalk
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Bertolt Brecht
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Book Reviews
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Harry Levin
Poet on a Pedestal -
Parker Tyler
Pained Sex: Elizabethan Style -
Morton G. White
Back to Plymouth Rock -
Marjorie Farber
Some Culled Fictions -
Eric Bentley
Who Understands Drama? -
A. M.
Brief Notices: The Trollopes -
J. C. R.
Brief Notices: William Ernest Henley: A Study in the “Counter-Decadence” of the ‘Nineties -
H. C. H.
Brief Notices: Modern German Literature 1870-1940 -
R. L.
Brief Notices: The Art of Newman’s “Apologia” -
D. F.
Brief Notices: Two Plays of Menander -
A. M.
Brief Notices: The Portable F. Scott Fitzgerald -
P. B. R.
Brief Notices: Productive Thinking -
J. C. R.
Brief Notices: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other One Act Plays
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Harry Levin
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Winter 1946
Vol. VIII No. 1
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Poetry
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W. C. Williams
A Place (Any Place) to Transcend All Places -
Harold French
Vienna – 1945 -
Robert Lowell
Mr. Edwards and the Spider -
John Edward Hardy
Madrigal -
John Edward Hardy
A Song of a Frog – For an Aging Lady -
Harold French
Man with a Beard -
Harold French
The Child in the Egg -
Robert Lowell
Winter in Dunbarton
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W. C. Williams
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Fiction
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M. P. Hutchins
Innocents
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M. P. Hutchins
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Nonfiction
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Jean Charlot
Pre-Hispanic Quota in Mexican Murals -
John Berryman
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Eric Bentley
Jean-Paul Sartre, Dramatist: The Thinker as Playwright -
Parker Tyler
The Impressionism of Marcel Proust -
Cleanth Brooks
The Intimations of the Ode: Reconsiderations V -
William Carlos Williams
Shapiro Is All Right -
William Van O’Connor
Shapiro on Rime¹
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Jean Charlot
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More Speculation
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W. P. Southard
Escape to Reality -
W. R. Moses
Art and Action
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W. P. Southard
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Communication
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Louis O. Kent
The Brushing-off of Miller
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Louis O. Kent
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Book Reviews
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Lionel Trilling
Short Notice: Psychology of Sex Relations -
J. C. R.
Short Notice: Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer -
Martin Lebowitz
A Theme That Runs Loosely -
Eric Bentley
Prophetic Anarchists -
Harold Whitehall
Linguistic Patriot -
Irene Hendry
Southern Stories -
A. M.
Short Notice: Ben Jonson, Poet -
Clyde Kluckhohn
Marxism and Modern Anthropology -
Robert Goldwater
Moving Towards the Absolute -
J. C. R.
Short Notice: The Rebirth of Liberal Education -
A. M.
Short Notice: A Stone, a Leaf, a Door -
F.F.
Short Notice: The Use of the Drama -
H. C. Hatfield
Satire of Empire -
Eric Russell Bentley
Short Notice: Freudianism and the Literary Mind -
Robert Richman
Lyrical and Social Too -
R. P. Blackmur
Tolstoi’s Flight
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Lionel Trilling
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Autumn 1945
Vol. VII No. 4
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A Story, 1st and 2nd Prize 1945
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John Berryman
The Imaginary Jew -
Mona Van Duyn
The Bell
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John Berryman
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Poetry
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Jean Garrigue
The Soldiers, the Birds, and the Monuments -
Fredrick Brantley
Mountains in Mexico -
Charles Jarrell
The Writing Exercise -
Lysander Kemp
Landscapes by Lorca and Disney -
Lysander Kemp
Little Portrait -
Lysander Kemp
Fashions of la Libertad
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Jean Garrigue
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Nonfiction
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Viola Meynell
The Duke Sits for a Portrait -
F. O. Matthiessen
The Problem of the Private Poet -
Kenneth Burke
The Temporizing of Essence -
Paul Goodman
The Father of the Psychoanalytic Movement -
Marjorie Farber
Subjectivity in Modern Fiction -
W. H. Mellers
A Music Letter from England -
Eric Russell Bentley
August Strindberg (Reconsiderations: No. IV)
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Viola Meynell
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Speculation
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W. P. Southard
The Religious Poetry of Robert Penn Warren -
T. W. Adorno
Theses upon Art and Religion Today -
John Crowe Ransom
Art and the Human Economy
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W. P. Southard
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Communications
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Parker Tyler
Mr. Tyler’s Approach -
Berthold Viertel
The Brecht Performance
-
Parker Tyler
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Book Reviews
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Kenneth Burke
The Work of Regeneration -
Francis Fergusson
Gorky’s Theatre -
Philip Blair Rice
Melville’s Imagination -
William Phillips
A Tract for the Time -
Isaac Rosenfeld
Stories with Infinite Interiors -
Robert C. Stephenson
Poetry from Spain -
Isaac Rosenfeld
Good Criticism with Polemical Intent -
Charles Riker
Brief Comment: Memories and Opinions -
Dudley Fitts
Brief Comment: Wars I Have Seen -
Eric Russell Bentley
Brief Comment: The Annihilation of Man -
Marjorie Farber
Brief Comment: Is He Popenjoy?; A Winter in Geneva -
Paul M. Titus
Brief Comment: Aladdin’s Lamp -
Eric Russell Bentley
Brief Comment: The Aesthetic Adventure -
John Sledge
Brief Comment: Across the Board -
Dudley Fitts
Brief Comment: The War Poets -
Charles Riker
Brief Comments: Letters
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Kenneth Burke
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Summer 1945
Vol. VII No. 3
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Poetry
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Karl Shapiro
Essay on Rime: Confusion of Personal Systems (From Part III) -
Randall Jarrell
A Ghost, a Real Ghost -
Randall Jarrell
Losses -
Randall Jarrell
The Germans Are Lunatics -
Samuel French Morse
Soldier Sewing on Chevrons -
Samuel French Morse
Another Soldier,… From the Aleutians -
Reed Whittemore
Home Abroad -
Reed Whittemore
On the Death of Some One Close -
Reed Whittemore
This Is It -
Reed Whittemore
Hester Prynne -
John Edward Hardy
Elegy for a Child on Easter Morning -
Alice Ingham
Five Poems -
David Cornel DeJong
State of Soul in Grand Rapids -
David Cornel DeJong
Sentimental Theme
-
Karl Shapiro
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Fiction
-
Meridel Le Sueur
Breathe upon These Slain -
Carl Hennemann
Blackbeard and the Nun
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Meridel Le Sueur
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Nonfiction
-
Philip Blair Rice
Thomas Mann and the Religious Revival -
Leo Balet
The Nuisance of Music “Re-Creations” -
T. Catesby Jones
Two Masters of Dry Point -
Wylie Sypher
Arabesque in Verse (Reconsiderations III) -
Berthold Viertel
Bertolt Brecht, Dramatist
-
Philip Blair Rice
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Communications
-
H.L. Geisse
To Whom It May Concern -
Blanche Udren
The Conformity of Leonov -
Marjorie Farber
Reply -
Eric Russell Bentley
The Views of Mr. Symons
-
H.L. Geisse
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Book Reviews
-
Lincoln Reis
Pedagogue and Person -
Lawrence Leighton
Honest Gide -
Leo Balet
The Humanity of Mozart -
Lionel Trilling
A Derivative Devil -
Alan Willard Brown
The 43rd Chapter of Job -
Roger Sessions
Sir Donald Tovey -
John Van Druten
He Bridged the Atlantic -
R. C. Stephenson
Russian Poetry Is Translatable -
John Crowe Ransom
Beating the Naturalists with the Stick of Drama -
Eric Russell Bentley
Brief Comment: Freud, Master and Friend -
Eric Russell Bentley
Brief Comment: The Hollywood Hallucination -
P. B. R.
Brief Comment: The Captain of St. Margaret’s -
John Crowe Ransom
Brief Comment: The Power House -
P. A. P.
Brief Comment: Are Men Equal? -
J. C. R.
Brief Comment: Mission of the University -
P. B. R.
Brief Comment: The Middle Span (Continuing Persons and Places) -
J. C. R.
Brief Comment: Cannery Row
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Lincoln Reis
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Spring 1945
Vol. VII No. 2
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Poetry
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Bertolt Brecht
Gedichte aus dem Exil / Poems of Exile -
Paul Engle
American Child — II -
Ruth Herschberger
July Phantom -
Ruth Herschberger
Little Cuckold
-
Bertolt Brecht
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Fiction
-
Meridel Le Sueur
Gone Home -
Elaine Gottlieb
The Norm -
Wentzle Ruml III
For a Beautiful Relationship
-
Meridel Le Sueur
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Nonfiction
-
Julian Symons
Restoration Comedy (Reconsiderations II) -
T. W. Adorno
A Social Critique of Radio Music -
Richard Chase
The Sense of the Present -
John Crowe Ransom
Art Worries the Naturalists: Who in Turn Worry the Arts with Organism, Fusion, Funding -
Edwin Honig
Communications -
Robert Horan
In Defense of Dylan Thomas -
Eric Russell Bentley
The Drama at Ebb
-
Julian Symons
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Book Reviews
-
Philip Rahv
Modernizing James -
Arthur Mizener
Mr. Auden’s Tennyson -
Jean Charlot
Old Masters for Tomorrow -
Lawrence Leighton
A Doctrinal Baudelaire -
Marjorie Farber
Inversions on a Formula -
Philip Greeley Clapp
Intelligent Listening -
Dudley Fitts
“Buddy, Sit Thee in Silence” -
Sidney Hook
Man and the Universe of Symbols -
R. P. Blackmur
Notes on Eleven Poets -
Allan Block
Brief Comment: New Writing and Daylight -
Eric Russell Bentley
Brief Comment: The Bible and the Common Reader -
Philip Blair Rice
Brief Comment: Nikolai Gogol -
Eric Russell Bentley
Brief Comment: This Changing World -
Harold Whitehall
Brief Comment: From Art to Theatre: Form and Convention in the Renaissance -
Eric Russell Bentley
Brief Comment: Sunday after the War -
Marjorie Farber
Brief Comment: The End of All Men
-
Philip Rahv
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