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December 1947

 
  • Stanley Hyman
  • William O'Connor
  • Bertolt Brecht
  • David Daiches
  • John Frank
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Table of Contents

Five Theological Cradle-Songs
  • Peter Viereck
    • Better Come Quietly
    • Why Can't I Live Forever?
    • Blindman's Buff
    • Game Called on Account of Darkness
    • Hide and Seek
  • David Daiches
    • 1947
  • Vernon Watkins
    • The Yew-Tree
Four Poems
  • Phyllis Haring
    • Overture to Strangers
    • Jungle
    • Non-European Hospital
    • Poker-Face
  • Paul Goodman
    • For Janet Fairbanks
  • Bertolt Brecht
    • The Swamp
Two Poems
  • Ray Smith
    • The Long Legend
    • My Grandfather Framed by an Autumn Day
    • Painting by Rousseau
Two Poems
  • James E. Schevill
    • Barber Shop
    • Divorce
  • John Frederick Frank
    • Coffee Hour
Five Poems
  • Henry Treece
    • Bardic Poem
    • Deep in the Forest
    • Fickle as Tiger
    • There Is an Ocean
    • We, as Old as Two Wars
  • William Elton
    • A Note on Robert Lowell
  • Jacques Allamand
    • The Geneaology of Lettrism
Reviews
  • Gladys Campbell
    • A World Torn Loose Went by Me
  • Dudley Fitts
    • Corydon, 1947
  • Harvey Curtis Webster
    • Change, within and Without
  • Evalyn Shapiro
    • From Nowhere
  • Northrop Frye
    • The Betjeman Brand
  • Stanley Edgar Hyman
    • Professorial Tindall Reads Moderns, Succumbs
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Jacques Allamand
  • Bertolt Brecht
  • Gladys Campbell
  • David Daiches
  • William Elton
  • Dudley Fitts
  • John Frederick Frank
  • Northrop Frye
  • Paul Goodman
  • Phyllis Haring
  • Stanley Edgar Hyman
  • James E. Schevill
  • Evalyn Shapiro
  • Ray Smith
  • Henry Treece
  • Peter Viereck
  • Vernon Watkins
  • Harvey Curtis Webster
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