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February 1948

 
  • Stephen Spender
  • William Williams
  • David Daiches
  • Elizabeth Brewster
  • Claire Burch
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Ceremony

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The Brewers

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On Seeing the Leni Riefenstahl Film of the 1936 Olympic Games

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Table of Contents

Seven Poems
  • Richard Wilbur
    • Ceremony
    • A Simile for Her Smile
    • The Death of a Toad
    • Five Women Bathing in Moonlight
    • Wellfleet: The House
    • Conjuration
    • Museum Piece
Two Poems
  • Claire Burch
    • The Brewers
    • Some People
  • Roy Fuller
    • On Seeing the Leni Riefenstahl Film of the 1936 Olympic Games
  • John Ciardi
    • To Judith
Six Poems
  • Hayden Carruth
    • Three Sonnets on the Necessity of Narrowly Escaping Death
    • The Wreck of the Circus Train
    • Men Leaning Forward
    • Epithalamion
  • Elizabeth Brewster
    • Fool's Song
Two Poems
  • William Poster
    • Song of Crosscurrents and Counteractions
    • Song of Suppressed Rebellion
  • Helen Curry
    • American Story
A Communication
  • Elder James Olson
    • Is Theory Possible?
Opinion
  • Stanley Edgar Hyman
    • R. P. Blackmur and the Expense of Criticism
Reviews
  • R. P. Blackmur
    • Poetry and Sensibility: Some Rules of Thumb
  • Alfred C. Ames
    • The Trouble Called Aspiration
  • Owen Dodson
    • Carousels and Rain
  • William Van O'Connor
    • The Direction of the Little Magazine
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Alfred C. Ames
  • R. P. Blackmur
  • Elizabeth Brewster
  • Claire Burch
  • Hayden Carruth
  • John Ciardi
  • Helen Curry
  • Owen Dodson
  • Roy Fuller
  • Stanley Edgar Hyman
  • William Van O'Connor
  • Elder James Olson
  • William Poster
  • Richard Wilbur
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