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Winter 1945
Vol. VII No. 1
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Editor's Notes
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John Crowe Ransom
The Severity of Mr. Savage
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John Crowe Ransom
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Younger Poets
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Marguerite Young
Of Deed, Love, Death -
Robert Richman
Concept of Freedom on the Sea Floor -
Warren Wirtz
Poems -
Richard Ellmann
Behind the Lines -
Richard Ellmann
The Last Man on Earth
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Marguerite Young
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Fiction
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John Berryman
The Lovers -
Paul Bartlett
World’s End -
Henrietta Weigel
Love Affair
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John Berryman
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Nonfiction
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Herbert Marshall McLuhan
The New York Wits -
Meyer Schapiro
French Reaction in Exile -
Kurt List
Schoenberg and Strauss -
John Edward Hardy
Reconsiderations:¹ I. Lycidas -
D.S. Savage
The Aestheticism of W. B. Yeats
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Herbert Marshall McLuhan
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Book Reviews
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Martin Lebowitz
The Everlasting Mr. Huxley -
Paul A. Palmer
Beyond Nationalism -
Marguerite Young
Fictions Mystical and Epical -
Philip Wheelwright
The Hellenic Ideal -
Forbes Watson
Virility and Showmanship -
Kenneth Burke
Careers without Careerism -
Eric Russell Bentley
Kahler and Mumford
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Martin Lebowitz
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Autumn 1944
Vol. VI No. 4
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The 1944 Short Story Prizes
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Editors
Introduction: The 1944 Short Story Prizes -
Jean Garrigue
The Snowfall -
Frances Gray Patton
A Piece of Bread
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Editors
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The Hopkins Centennial (Concluded)
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Robert Lowell
The Hopkins Centennial: A Note -
Austin Warren
Monument Not Quite Needed -
Arthur Mizener
Victorian Hopkins
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Robert Lowell
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Poetry
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Wallace Stevens
Esthétique Du Mal
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Wallace Stevens
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Nonfiction
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Eric Russell Bentley
The Theatres of Wagner and Ibsen -
Wallace Fowlie
Memory of France: April 1944 -
Eduardo Mallea
The Lost Cause of Jacob Uber -
P. Magg
Education for the Age of Labor -
Gorham Munson
Education for the Age of Power
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Eric Russell Bentley
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Book Reviews
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Morton G. White
Diagnosis without Therapy -
Marguerite Young
The Dusty Interiors of Boston -
Paul Rosenfeld
The Last of Young Vienna -
R. W. Flint
Smear and Whitewash -
Harold Whitehall
Some Languages Are Better than Others -
Lloyd Mallan
How to Understand a Spaniard -
Francis D. Wormuth
The Responsibility for Hitler -
F. O. Matthiessen
American Poetry Now
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Morton G. White
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Summer 1944
Vol. VI No. 3
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Cleanth Brooks
Editor’s Note: Gerard Manley Hopkins -
Herbert Marshall McLuhan
The Analogical Mirrors -
Harold Whitehall
Sprung Rhythm -
Josephine Miles
The Sweet and Lovely Language -
Austin Warren
Instress of Inscape
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Cleanth Brooks
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Fiction
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Constance Lemon
Landscape -
Eli Waldron
Come, Hercule -
Olivia Manning
A Visit
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Constance Lemon
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Nonfiction
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Edouard Roditi
Paul Valery: Poetics as an Exact Science -
Gorham Munson
The Hand That Writes the Credit
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Edouard Roditi
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Poetry
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Delmore Schwartz
The Starlight’s Intuitions Pierced the Twelve -
Mona Van Duyn
Paratrooper -
Philip Blair Rice
Hide and Seek -
Marya Zaturenska
The Haunted House -
Josephine Miles
Sonata from Above -
Josephine Miles
Confidence -
Josephine Miles
Funeral -
Josephine Miles
Nosce Te Ipsum -
Josephine Miles
None -
Josephine Miles
The Disturbed -
Josephine Miles
Look -
Josephine Miles
Midwatcher
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Delmore Schwartz
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Book Reviews
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P. B. R.
Salt, Pepper, and Pity for Mankind -
Mark Schorer
Fictions Not Wholly Achieved -
Lawrence Leighton
Roman Criticism and English Translation -
C. G. Wallis
The Aesthetic and the Ethical -
John Crowe Ransom
The Essays of Horace Gregory -
Joseph Remenyi
Some of the Trouble with Saroyan -
Lloyd Mallan
Tom Wolfe of Argentina -
Jerome Mellquist
Drawing as a Constant Glory -
Horace Gregory
Dr. Leavis’ English School
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P. B. R.
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Spring 1944
Vol. VI No. 2
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Editor's Notes
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John Crowe Ransom
Announcement to Contributors
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John Crowe Ransom
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Verse More and Less Topical
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Richard Eberhart
[You Would Think the Fury of Aerial Bombardment] -
Richard Eberhart
Dam Neck, Virginia -
Richard Eberhart
Speech from a Play -
Royall H. Snow
Of Men and Places -
Rolfe Humphries
La Belle Dame Sans Merci -
Paul Engle
Cuban Voyage -
John Malcolm Brinnin
With a Posthumous Medal -
John Malcolm Brinnin
Gunnery Practice
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Richard Eberhart
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Fiction
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David Cornel DeJong
When It Thundered -
Phoebe Lowell
The Lippia Lawn -
Elaine Gottlieb
Where Are You Roaming?
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David Cornel DeJong
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Nonfiction
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André Gide
An Introduction to Goethe’s Theatre -
Erwin Panofsky
Renaissance and Renascences -
Robert Penn Warren
The Love and the Separateness in Miss Welty¹ -
John Crowe Ransom
Artists, Soldiers, Positivists -
George Beiswanger
Broadway Letter
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André Gide
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Book Reviews
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Cleanth Brooks
Cantankerous and Other Critics -
Philip Rahv
Lost Illusions -
Sidney Cox
Against Sickness of the Mortal Will -
Charles Glenn Wallis
Maldoror in English -
Philip Wheelwright
Phenomenology and the Hungry Sheep -
Dudley Fitts
Rejecting Swinburne’s Sensibility -
Andreas Dorpalen
Towards a Better World -
Walter Pach
Sculpture
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Cleanth Brooks
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Winter 1944
Vol. VI No. 1
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New Verse by Five Poets
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Genevieve Taggard
Lullaby (for music) -
Genevieve Taggard
Remote Design -
Genevieve Taggard
Problem Evil into Cocoon -
Genevieve Taggard
The Weed -
Muriel Rukeyser
The Dream-Singing Elegy¹ -
Randall Jarrell
The Carnegie Library, Juvenile Division -
Jean Garrigue
Conjectural Domain -
Jean Garrigue
Discourse -
Robert Horan
Twenty-One Years -
Robert Horan
Litany -
Robert Horan
Palms and Calendars -
Robert Horan
January
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Genevieve Taggard
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Fiction
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Mary Lavin
A Wet Day -
Wentzle Ruml III
The Football Players -
Marguerite Young
Old James
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Mary Lavin
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Nonfiction
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C. G. Wallis
The Blood of a Poet -
André Gide
Three Portraits from Gide’s Journal
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C. G. Wallis
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Poetry
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Allen Tate
Seasons of the Soul (To J. P. B.)
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Allen Tate
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Discussion
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Van Meter Ames
Art and Science¹ -
John Crowe Ransom
Art Needs a Little Separating
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Van Meter Ames
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Book Reviews
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Arthur Mizener
Verse and Poetry -
Delmore Schwartz
The Hero in Russia -
Philip Rhys Adams
A Fully Proportioned European -
Jean Garrigue
Many Ways of Evil -
Philip Wheelwright
Partisan and Tendencious -
Lloyd Mallan
Bird’s Eye View -
Lawrence Leighton
Criticism from Oxford -
C. G. Wallis
Satan and Denis De Rougemont -
Horace Gregory
Putting the Ego on the Other Foot
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Arthur Mizener
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Autumn 1943
Vol. V No. 4
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Editor's Notes
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Editors
The James Number -
J. C. R.
E. M. Forster
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Editors
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Poetry
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Donald H. Stauffer
The Lemmings
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Donald H. Stauffer
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Nonfiction
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R. P. Blackmur
In the Country of the Blue -
Eliseo Vivas
Henry and William: Two Notes -
David Daiches
Sensibility and Technique: Preface to a Critique -
Austin Warren
Myth and Dialectic in Later Novels -
F. O. Matthiessen
James and the Plastic Arts -
John L. Sweeney
The Demuth Pictures -
Francis Fergusson
James’s Idea of Dramatic Form -
Katherine Anne Porter
The Days Before -
Jacques Barzun
James the Melodramatist
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R. P. Blackmur
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Summer 1943
Vol. V No. 3
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Fiction
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Jorge Icaza
A Tomb for the Corpse -
Walter Elder
Her Own Affair
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Jorge Icaza
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Nonfiction
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Jacques Barzun
Bernard Shaw in Twilight -
W. H. Mellers
American Music (An English Perspective) -
Walter Pach
John B. Flannagan, American Sculptor -
Virgil C. Aldrich
Pictorial Meaning and Picture Thinking -
George Hemphill
The Discourse of Music - Art Letter
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Jacques Barzun
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Poetry
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John Thompson Jr.
A Love for Patsy -
John Thompson Jr.
Over the Landscape with Transit and Plumb-Bob -
R. T. S. Lowell
Satan’s Confession
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John Thompson Jr.
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Discussion
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Ruth Herschberger
The Structure of Metaphor -
John Crowe Ransom
Positive and Near-Positive Aesthetics
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Ruth Herschberger
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Book Reviews
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Arnold Stein
Shakespeare Allegorized -
Muriel Rukeyser
Nearer to the Well-Spring -
Jerome Mellquist
The Merit of English Painting -
Robert C. Stephenson
Caribbean Horrors -
Roberta Teale Swartz
Elinor Wylie -
W. P. Southard
Images with Abstract Titles -
R. P. Blackmur
Commentary by Ghosts -
Paul A. Palmer
A New Freedom
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Arnold Stein
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Spring 1943
Vol. V No. 2
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Editor's Notes
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John Crowe Ransom
Editorial Comment: The Inorganic Muses
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John Crowe Ransom
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Fiction
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Jean Garrigue
Mr. Haszka
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Jean Garrigue
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Nonfiction
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F. O. Matthiessen
Eliot’s Quartets -
Wallace Fowlie
François Mauriac -
Martin Lebowitz
Thought and Sensibility -
Robert Penn Warren
Pure and Impure Poetry -
John S. Rodell
Maxwell Anderson: A Criticism
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F. O. Matthiessen
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Drama
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Ramon J. Sender
The Key
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Ramon J. Sender
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Poetry
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Mark Van Doren
Aetat 50 -
Mark Van Doren
How We Shine -
Mark Van Doren
April, 1942 -
Allen Tate
Jubilo -
Allen Tate
More Sonnets at Christmas
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Mark Van Doren
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Book Reviews
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Eliseo Vivas
On Symbolism -
Walter Pach
A French Aesthetic -
Robert C. Stephenson
Péguy Pared Down -
Philip Blair Rice
Gibbs and the Age of Power -
Robie Macauley
Gallic American -
Charles Neider
Psychopathic like Charlie -
Lloyd Mallan
Good Neighbor Poets
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Eliseo Vivas
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Winter 1943
Vol. V No. 1
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Fiction
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George Stiles
A Return
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George Stiles
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Nonfiction
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Martin Wagner
Cities’ Renaissance -
Van Meter Ames
The Novel: Between Art and Science -
John L. Sweeney
Basic in Reading -
Frederick L. Santee
Basic, Latin, and Other Languages -
Arnold M. Walter
The Composer in Search of Freedom and Progress¹ -
George Beiswanger
Broadway Letter -
W. H. Mellers
Music Letter from England -
Arthur Mizener
Poetry from Right to Left
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Martin Wagner
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Poetry
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Randall Jarrell
Pictures from a World
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Randall Jarrell
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Book Reviews
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William Barrett
A Master of Irony -
Paul A. Palmer
Prophet and Professor -
F. W. Dupee
Silone’s Limbo -
Lincoln Reis
Between the Image and the Thought -
Josephine Miles
Critical Relativism -
W. P. Southard
Lady Flat on Her Back -
James T. Farrell
Eternal Verities -
Marianne Moore
There Is a War That Never Ends -
Philip Rahv
Mrs. Woolf and Mrs. Brown -
Siegfried Kracauer
In Eisenstein’s Workshop
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William Barrett
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Autumn 1942
Vol. IV No. 3
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Editor's Notes
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Editors
We Resume -
John Crowe Ransom
Mr. Russell and Mr. Schorer
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Editors
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New Verse by Brave Poets
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Jean Garrigue
Three Poems -
John Thompson Jr.
Horses, Romantic Beasts -
Marguerite Young
A Crystal Principle -
Marguerite Young
Moderate Fable
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Jean Garrigue
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Fiction
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Andrew Lytle
Alchemy
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Andrew Lytle
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Nonfiction
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R. P. Blackmur
The Sacred Fount -
Bertrand Russell
Non-Materialistic Naturalism -
Mark Schorer
Mythology (For the Study of William Blake) -
W. H. Mellers
Virginia Woolf: The Last Phase -
Philip Blair Rice
Notes on a Democratic Philosophy - Notes on Art and War
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R. P. Blackmur
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Book Reviews
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Randall Jarrell
The Humble Animal -
Donald A. Stauffer
The “Mesures” Lectures -
David Daiches
Fiction and Rhetoric -
Eliseo Vivas
From Prometheus to Maitreya -
Paul Rosenfeld
Schooled and Unschooled Art -
Lionel Trilling
Artists and the “Societal” Function -
John Crowe Ransom
Bright Disorder
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Randall Jarrell
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Spring 1942
Vol. IV No. 2
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Editor's Notes
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John Crowe Ransom
War and Publication
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John Crowe Ransom
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Fiction
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W. P. Southard
Give Me Time
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W. P. Southard
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Nonfiction
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Jacques Maritain
Poetry’s Dark Night¹ -
Lionel Trilling
E. M. Forster -
Arthur Mizener
The Elizabethan Art of Our Movies -
Philip Wheelwright
Religion and Social Grammar -
John Crowe Ransom
An Address to Kenneth Burke -
George Beiswanger
Broadway Letter
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Jacques Maritain
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Poetry
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Mark Van Doren
The Seven Sleepers -
Mark Van Doren
Latter Day -
Mark Van Doren
Northern Philosopher (Kierkegaard) -
Mark Van Doren
Northern Minstrel (Kafka) -
Robert Fitzgerald
Colorado -
Robert Penn Warren
Original Sin: A Short Story
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Mark Van Doren
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Book Reviews
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Philip Rahv
Souvenirs and Experiments -
Henry Woodward
The Musical Tradition -
Cleanth Brooks
Form and Content -
Paul A. Palmer
The Hero as Judge -
Rushton Coulborn
Sorokin and Toynbee -
Edward C. Weist
Translators Beware -
Abbott Martin
Contourscaping -
E. S. Forgotson
Rich or Thin -
Robert Penn Warren
Homage to Oliver Allston
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Philip Rahv
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Winter 1942
Vol. IV No. 1
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Editor's Notes
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P. B. R.
A Word about Naturalism
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P. B. R.
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Fiction
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Delmore Schwartz
An Argument in 1934
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Delmore Schwartz
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Nonfiction
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Paul Goodman
Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture -
Robert Penn Warren
Katherine Anne Porter (Irony with a Center) -
Friede F. Rothe
Russian Music -
Justin O’Brien
Poet on Horseback -
Donald A. Stauffer
Cooperative Criticism: A Letter from the Critical Front
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Paul Goodman
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Poetry
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Genevieve Taggard
On Darkness, on Evil, on Night, Etc. -
Genevieve Taggard
No Abstraction -
Randall Jarrell
The Long Vacation -
Randall Jarrell
The Skaters
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Genevieve Taggard
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A Communication
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Eliseo Vivas
Reply to Mr. Wheelwright
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Eliseo Vivas
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Book Reviews
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Lionel Trilling
Greatness with One Fault in It -
Daniel Aaron
Parrington Plus -
Jean Stafford Lowell
Walpurgis Nacht, 1940 -
Carl H. Grabo
The White Shelley -
Philip Wheelwright
The Lonely Philosopher -
F. W. Dupee
Nineteen Gothic Tales -
David U. McDowell
Poets of New Direction -
George Beiswanger
Ambivalent Heritage -
Robie Macauley
Good-Bad Novels -
Kenneth Burke
Key Words for Critics
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Lionel Trilling
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