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May 1940

 
  • Eugene Jolas
  • David Daiches
  • Lionel Abel
  • Babette Deutsch
  • Kenneth Fearing
Table of Contents

From this Issue

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Prognosis

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Raleigh Was Right

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To Napoleon, in an Evil Time

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Table of Contents

Ten Poems
  • Louis MacNeice
    • Prognosis
    • Obituary
    • O'Connell Bridge
    • Entirely
    • Order to View
    • I Am That I Am
    • Three Thousand Miles
    • The British Museum Reading Room
    • Perdita
    • Stylite
  • William Carlos Williams
    • Raleigh Was Right
  • Babette Deutsch
    • To Napoleon, in an Evil Time
Three Poems
  • Weldon Kees
    • White Collar Ballad
    • Poem ("Memories rich as Proust's...")
    • Praise to the Mind
  • Harry Roskolenko
    • To Rimbaud
  • Theodore Roethke
    • Orders for the Day
Three Poems
  • Lionel Abel
    • The Midwives of History
    • Sign
    • Death at Lenin's Tomb
  • Donagh Macdonagh
    • Water and Time Divide the World Too Much
Three Poems
  • Kenneth Fearing
    • Discussion after the Fifth or Sixth
    • Pay-Off
    • 5 A.M.
Reviews
  • Julian Symons
    • Louis MacNeice: The Artist as Everyman
  • Philip Blair Rice
    • The Rimbaud Mystery Clarified
    • Arthur Rimbaud, by Enid Starkie
    • Some Poems of Rimbaud (Tr. by Lionel Abel)
    • A Season in Hell, by Arthur Rimbaud (Tr. by Delmore Schwartz)
  • Alfred Kreymborg
    • A Dramatic Gift
  • Elsa Gidlow
    • Or It Can Be
  • Winfield Townley Scott
    • Direct Poems
Contents
  • William Everson
    • Correspondence
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Lionel Abel
  • Babette Deutsch
  • William Everson
  • Kenneth Fearing
  • Elsa Gidlow
  • Weldon Kees
  • Alfred Kreymborg
  • Louis MacNeice
  • Donagh Macdonagh
  • Philip Blair Rice
  • Theodore Roethke
  • Harry Roskolenko
  • Winfield Townley Scott
  • Julian Symons
  • William Carlos Williams
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