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Autumn 1941
Vol. III No. 4
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Editor's Notes
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J. C. R.
The Aesthetics of Music
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J. C. R.
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Younger Poets
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J. C. R.
The Younger Poets -
Jean Garrigue
Three Poems -
John Ciardi
For My Twenty-Fifth Birthday, 1941 -
John Nerber
Boy at a Christmas Tree -
Reed Whittemore
A Winter Shore -
Howard Nemerov
Notes on a New England Winter -
Howard Moss
Waterwall Blues -
John Pauker
Fable for Easter 1941 -
Elizabeth Lee
Forever Flight -
Ruth Herschberger
Coup d’Etat -
Ruth Herschberger
[How Slightly Earned, the Body] -
Ruth Herschberger
Page Torn from a Note-Book
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J. C. R.
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Fiction
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Paul Goodman
Frances
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Paul Goodman
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Nonfiction
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Kenneth Burke
Four Master Tropes -
W. H. Mellers
On Writing about Music -
Eliseo Vivas
The New Naturalism -
Philip Wheelwright
The Failure of Naturalism (A Reply to Eliseo Vivas) -
Edwin Berry Burgum
Romanticism
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Kenneth Burke
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Correspondence
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Louis O. Coxe
Winters on Eliot -
Fairfield Porter
Wyndham Lewis on Picasso
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Louis O. Coxe
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Book Reviews
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William Barrett
Christianity and Modern Man -
P.B.R.
Hindu Tangle -
Donald Davidson
Origins of Our Heroes -
Yvor Winters
The Poems of Theodore Roethke -
Philip Horton
Critical Mayhem and Confusion -
J. C. R.
Indefatigable Tommy -
Jerome Mellquist
Art Letter: The New Art Books
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William Barrett
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Summer 1941
Vol. III No. 3
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Editor's Notes
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J. C. R.
Moholy-Nagy’s New Arts
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J. C. R.
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Nonfiction
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Lionel Trilling
Sherwood Anderson -
Ernest Nagel
Recent Philosophies of Science -
Eleanor Clark
Death of a Thinker: A Note on the French Novel 1925-40 -
Marten Ten Hoor
The Nazis Purge Philosophy -
Beaumont Newhall
The Photography of Moholy-Nagy -
Austin Warren
Edward Taylor’s Poetry: Colonial Baroque
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Lionel Trilling
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A Verse Play
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Delmore Schwartz
Shenandoah or, the Naming of the Child
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Delmore Schwartz
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Poetry
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Marguerite Young
Summer Day -
Marguerite Young
The Pattern -
Josephine Miles
Quiet and Firmer -
Josephine Miles
On Page -
Josephine Miles
Wading
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Marguerite Young
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Book Reviews
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Mark Schorer
Return of Glenway Wescott -
J. C. R.
Constellation of Five Young Poets -
P. B. R.
Toward a Philosophy of Language -
Paul A. Palmer
History without Philosophy -
John Berryman
More Directions -
Gordon Keith Chalmers
Rediscovery of a Radical
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Mark Schorer
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Spring 1941
Vol. III No. 2
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Editor's Notes
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J. C. R.
Muses and Amazons
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J. C. R.
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The American Culture: A Symposium
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Rushton Coulborn
The Polity -
Clyde Kluckhohn
The Way of Life -
John Peale Bishop
The Arts
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Rushton Coulborn
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Nonfiction
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John Erskine
Vergil -
Delmore Schwartz
The Isolation of Modern Poetry -
Yvor Winters
T.S. Eliot: The Illusion of Reaction (II) -
Paul Rosenfeld
Music Chronicle: The Alceste
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John Erskine
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Poetry
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John Berryman
At Chinese Checkers
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John Berryman
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Book Reviews
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Henry Woodward
Musical Analysis at Its Best -
Haakon M. Chevalier
The Monster, Marriage -
Justus Buchler
The Naturalism of Santayana -
Robert Penn Warren
The Snopes World -
Don Stanford
The Classicism of Yvor Winters
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Henry Woodward
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Winter 1941
Vol. III No. 1
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Editor's Notes
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J. C. R.
Ubiquitous Moralists
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J. C. R.
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Nonfiction
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Yvor Winters
T.S. Eliot: The Illusion of Reaction (I) -
Ralph Linton
Primitive Art -
Calvin S. Brown
Triumphant Repetition in Music -
W. C. Barrett
Reading and the Liberal Arts -
Eliseo Vivas
Lawrence’s Problems -
Nicolas Dorantes
Mexican Letter
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Yvor Winters
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Poetry
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Louis MacNeice
Picture Galleries -
Louis MacNeice
The Dowser -
R. P. Blackmur
Before Sentence Is Passed
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Louis MacNeice
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Book Reviews
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Mark Schorer
The Background of a Style -
Cleanth Brooks
The Whole of Housman: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman -
James Johnson Sweeney
Success Stories from Mexico -
Andrews Wanning
Poetry and Belief -
Randall Jarrell
Kafka’s Tragi-Comedy -
Delmore Schwartz
Neither Historian Nor Critic -
Muriel Rukeyser
Lorca in English -
Richmond C. Beatty
Mountaineers Are Shakespearean
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Mark Schorer
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Autumn 1940
Vol. II No. 4
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Editor's Notes
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J. C. R.
Concerning the Symposium
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J. C. R.
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Literature and the Professors: A Symposium
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Cleanth Brooks, Jr.
Literary History vs. Criticism -
Arthur Mizener
Scholars as Critics -
Sidney Cox
If We Care Enough -
Hade Saunders
The Graduate Student in English -
Lionel Trilling
Literature and Power
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Cleanth Brooks, Jr.
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Nonfiction
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Virgil C. Aldrich
The Ivory Tower on Wheels -
Klaus Mann
Karl May: Hitler’s Literary Mentor -
Philip Blair Rice
George Santayana: The Philosopher as Poet -
William Empson
Basic English and Wordsworth (A Radio Talk)
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Virgil C. Aldrich
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Three Poems
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Theodore Spencer
Two of a Kind -
Theodore Spencer
A Reason for Writing -
Theodore Spencer
The Widow
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Theodore Spencer
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Poetry
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Charles Weir, Jr.
Nothing but Maps -
Marguerite Young
Earth’s History -
Marguerite Young
Death by Rarity
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Charles Weir, Jr.
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Correspondence
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Josephine Miles
More Semantics of Poetry
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Josephine Miles
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Book Review
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Jerome Mellquist
France and Its Painting: a review of Modern French Painters by R. H. Wilenski; Verve VIII by E. Teriade; Paris, France by Gertrude Stein -
John Berryman
The Loud Hill of Wales: a review of The World I Breathe by Dylan Thomas -
Eleanor Clark
The Myth of Sainthood: a review of The Star of Satan by Georges Bernanos -
Julius R. Weinberg
Unifying Science -
Edward Schouten Robinson
The Nature of Comedy -
Richard Eberhart
Q’s Revisions -
Henry Woodward
Toward a Methord for Musicology
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Jerome Mellquist
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Summer 1940
Vol. II No. 3
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Editor's Notes
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J. C. R.
Old Age of a Poet -
J. C. R.
Mr. Tate and the Professors
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J. C. R.
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Fiction
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Eleanor Clark
The Ball
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Eleanor Clark
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Nonfiction
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Philip Wheelwright
On the Semantics of Poetry -
Nicolas Dorantes
Recent Mexican Painting -
Herbert J. Muller
The World of Henry Miller -
Lawrence Thompson
Bert Brecht -
William Troy
On Rereading Balzac: The Artist as Scapegoat -
Paul Rosenfeld
Music Chronicle: Panorama of the Season in New York
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Philip Wheelwright
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Poetry
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Marianne Moore
Four Quartz Crystal Clocks -
Marianne Moore
What Are Years? -
Marianne Moore
A Glass-Ribbed Nest -
Frederic Prokosch
Two Poems -
Rayner Heppenstall
Quarter Day -
Rayner Heppenstall
Latter Judgment -
Rayner Heppenstall
Uneasy Time
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Marianne Moore
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Book Reviews
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Edgar Johnson
Amor Dei in Hollywood -
R. P. Blackmur
Anterior and Posterior Conviction -
Lawrence Leighton
The Faith of a Nihilist -
C. A. Millspaugh
Among the New Books of Verse -
Lionel Trilling
Mr. Lewis Goes Soft -
Morgan Blum
A Marxist Critic -
Robert Jay Wolff
Is There an American Art? -
Francis Fergusson
The Modern Temper in an Aisle Seat
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Edgar Johnson
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Spring 1940
Vol. II No. 2
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Editor's Notes
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Philip Blair Rice
Psychoanalysis: The Second Wave
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Philip Blair Rice
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Nonfiction
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Alexander Reid Martin
The Legacy of Sigmund Freud: An Appraisal: Therapeutic, Literary and Aesthetic, Philosophical -
Wyndham Lewis
Picasso -
Harold Whitehall
America’s Language: A to DEW -
Julian Symons
A London Letter: The Wartime Literary Situation
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Alexander Reid Martin
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Poetry
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Robert Penn Warren
Love’s Parable -
Roberta Teale Swartz
To the Regent (On the Late Secessions) -
Randall Jarrell
For an Emigrant -
Weldon Kees
For My Daughter -
Weldon Kees
Poem
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Robert Penn Warren
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Correspondence
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Haakon M. Chevalier
Correspondence
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Haakon M. Chevalier
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Book Reviews
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Justin O’Brien
A Mystic in the Raw -
Mark Schorer
Fiction Going and Coming -
R. P. Blackmur
It Is Later than He Thinks -
Robert P. Casey
Exodus: Freudian Version -
Austin Warren
A Latter-Day Saint -
Edgar Johnson
Three Proletarian Novels -
John Crowe Ransom
Apologia for Modernism
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Justin O’Brien
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Winter 1940
Vol. II No. 1
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Editor's Notes
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J. C. R.
Editorial Notes
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J. C. R.
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Nonfiction
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R. P. Blackmur
Henry Adams: Three Late Moments -
Haakon M. Chevalier
Andre Malraux: The Return of the Hero -
Henry Woodward
The Changing Ethos of Contemporary Music -
Julian Symons
Obscurity and Dylan Thomas -
John Crowe Ransom
The Pragmatics of Art -
Milton Hindus
Emily’s Prose: A Note -
Paul Rosenfeld
Music Chronicle: The Musicological Congress
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R. P. Blackmur
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Poetry
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W. H. Auden
For Sigmund Freud -
Theodore Spencer
The Paradox in the Circle -
Wallace Stevens
Variations on a Summer Day
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W. H. Auden
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Book Reviews
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Lionel Trilling
Determinist and Mystic -
Robert Morss Lovett
Literature and Its Rivals -
John Gould Fletcher
Reason’s Unreason -
Jerome Mellquist
Roger Fry, Orthodox Heretic -
Samuel Rogers
Half an Epic and Two Lyrics -
Eliseo Vivas
Positive Ethics -
Philip Timberlake
Sensitive Not Critical -
Joseph Sagmaster
The Posthumous Wolfe -
Winfield Townley Scott
Pie and Cheese -
Philip Blair Rice
Dewey and His Critics
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Lionel Trilling
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Autumn 1939
Vol. I No. 4
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Editor's Notes
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John Crowe Ransom
The Aesthetic of Finnegans Wake
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John Crowe Ransom
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Nonfiction
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Robert Penn Warren
The Present State of Poetry: A Symposium: In England, in France, in the United States -
Charles W. Morris
Science, Art and Technology -
James Johnson Sweeney
Surrealism as a Public Art -
Delmore Schwartz
The Criterion, 1922-39 -
Philip Blair Rice
Foreign Periodicals
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Robert Penn Warren
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Poetry
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Muriel Rukeyser
A Turning Wind -
Allen Tate
The Trout Map -
John Crowe Ransom
Address to the Scholars of New England (Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Poem, June 23, 1939)
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Muriel Rukeyser
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Book Reviews
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Christopher Isherwood
The Tragedy of Eldorado -
F. O. Matthiessen
A Good Workman -
R. D. Darrell
Jazz as Language -
Harry Levin
New Irish Stew -
Roberta Teale Swartz
The Velvet Arras -
Randall Jarrell
From That Island
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Christopher Isherwood
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Summer 1939
Vol. I No. 3
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Nonfiction
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John Peale Bishop
World’s Fair Notes -
Philip Rahv
Paleface and Redskin -
Randall Jarrell
Texts from Housman -
Kenneth Burke
The Calling of the Tune -
George Marion O’Donnell
Faulkner’s Mythology -
Virgil C. Aldrich
Beauty as Feeling -
John Crowe Ransom
Yeats and His Symbols
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John Peale Bishop
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Poetry
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John Berryman
Letter to His Brother -
John Berryman
Nineteen Thirty-Eight -
Dylan Thomas
Poem -
Peter Taylor
The Furnishings of a House
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John Berryman
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Book Reviews
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Herbert J. Muller
Violence upon the Roads -
Cleanth Brooks
Poet or Sage? -
James Johnson Sweeney
Criticism with Myopia -
Philip Horton
Speculations on Sin -
Mark Schorer
Limitations of the Fable -
Austin Warren
Humanism Ten Years After -
Theodore Chanler
Active Listening -
Robert Fitzgerald
Laura Riding -
Lionel Trilling
Feminine without the Charm -
Edgar Johnson
Technique and Tantrum
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Herbert J. Muller
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Table of Contents
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Spring 1939
Vol. I No. 2
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Editor's Notes
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John Crowe Ransom
The Arts and the Philosophers
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John Crowe Ransom
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Nonfiction
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Forbes Watson
New Forces in American Art -
Lawrence Leighton
Disorder -
William Carlos Williams
Federico Garcia Lorca -
Eliseo Vivas
The New Encyclopedists: A Symposium -
Paul Rosenfeld
The Advance of American Music
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Forbes Watson
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Poetry
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Federico García Lorca
Walking Asleep -
Federico García Lorca
The Interrupted Concert -
C. A. Millspaugh
New Continent
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Federico García Lorca
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Book Reviews
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Allen Tate
The Poet and Her Biographer -
Louis Kronenberger
Another Typhoon -
Gilbert Seldes
Stage and Film -
Mark Van Doren
Music of a Mind -
Randall Jarrell
The Morality of Mr. Winters -
Joseph Warren Beach
The Quality of Man -
Robert Penn Warren
Arnold vs. The 19th Century -
Lincoln Kirstein
About Dancers -
F. Cudworth Flint
Two Party Poets -
H. B. Parkes
The Mystic as Historian -
John Crowe Ransom
One Thousand Sonnets
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Allen Tate
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Winter 1939
Vol. I No. 1
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Editor's Notes
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J. C. R.
Was Shakespeare a Philosopher? -
J. C. R.
The Teaching of Poetry
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J. C. R.
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Nonfiction
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John Peale Bishop
The Sorrows of Thomas Wolfe -
Ford Madox Ford
A Paris Letter -
Delmore Schwartz
The Two Audens -
Paul Rosenfeld
The Advent of American Music -
Philip Rahv
Franz Kafka: The Hero as Lonely Man
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John Peale Bishop
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Poetry
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R. T. S. Lowell
The Cities’ Summer Death -
R. T. S. Lowell
The Dandelion Girls -
Randall Jarrell
The Winter’s Tale
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R. T. S. Lowell
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Book Reviews
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Haakon M. Chevalier
Gallic Pageant -
C. A. Millspaugh
Private and Public Verse -
Howard Baker
The Shattered Door -
Sheldon Cheney
Painter of the Half-World -
R. P. Blackmur
Mature Intelligence of an Artist -
Herbert J. Muller
Farrell and Steinbeck -
Vernon Venable
Russell’s Theory of History -
Yvor Winters
Poetry of Feeling -
B. H. Haggin
Genius Limited and Yearning -
Philip Blair Rice
Twenty-Five Directions
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Haakon M. Chevalier
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