Volume 8, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: José Guadalupe Posada
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Table of Contents
The Blues as a Literary Theme, Non-Fiction by Gene Bluestein
I Object, Said the Object, Poetry by Mairi MacInnes
One of Those Days, Poetry by John B. Rosesnman
The Hotel, Fiction by Jack Matthews
Training the Eye; For an Old Teacher; The Wall; Crumb-giving, Poetry by Henry Braun
University Cafeteria, Poetry by Larry Rubin
R. P. Blackmur and the Criticism of Poetry, Non-Fiction by William H. Pritchard
Emily Dickinson: Partial Portrait, Poetry by Sydney R. McLean
For Queen Eleanor on the Anniversary of Her Birth, Poetry by Burton Welcher
End of a Year, Fiction by Oren McCleary
William Burroughs and the Literature of Addiction, Non-Fiction by Frank D. McConnell
Feelings of Love and Violence, Art by Leonel Góngora
Sappho and Other Stories, Non-Fiction by William Brandon
Harold Pinter’s Happy Families, Non-Fiction by R. F. Storch
The Theatre of Assault: Four Off-Off Broadway Plays, Non-Fiction by David Madden
At Her Going, Poetry by Robin Johnson
On the Tidal Ledge; The Jellyfish, Poetry by Wm. Pitt Root
Observer: The Last Seven Years in Cuba, Non-Fiction by Jose Yglesias; Change and the Individual in Modern Japan, Non-Fiction by Lawrence Olson
Both Ways, Poetry by Robert Coles
IN REVIEW:
Voltaire and the Enlightenment, Non-Fiction by Henri Peyre
The Other Boswell, Non-Fiction by Thomas Copeland
Ford Madox Ford as Poet and Editor, Non-Fiction by Frank MacShane
Civil Rights Imagery, Non-Fiction by Paul L. Murphy
Donaldson’s Beowulf: The Critical Art of Translation, Non-Fiction by Howell D. Chickering, Jr.
Contributors
Gene Bluestein is on leave from Fresno State College this year to serve as a Fulbright lecturer in Helsinki.
William Brandon is the author of the American Heritage book on the American Indian.
Poems by Henry Braun, who teaches English at Temple, have appeared in The Nation, Prairie Schooner, Chelsea.
Howell D. Chickering, Jr. teaches English at Amherst College; at present he is working on a bi-lingual edition of Beowulf.
Research psychiatrist at Harvard University Health Center, Dr. Robert Coles is the author of Children of Crisis (Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1967).
Thomas W. Copeland is the general editor of The Correspondence of Edmund Burke.
The poems of Robin Johnson have appeared in Saturday Review, The Reporter, Commonweal; she is currently a graduate student at UCLA.
A native of England living in America since 1959, Mairi MacInnes has published both poems and short stories.
Frank MacShane is Chairman of the Writing Division of Columbia University’s School of the Arts and the author of The Life and Work of Ford Madox Ford.
Oren McCleary has published in Boston and Virginia Quarterly.
Frank D. McConnell is an Assistant Professor of English at Cornell.
Sydney R. McLean is Professor Emeritus of English at Mount Holyoke College; the pieces printed here received the 1967 Arthur Davison Ficks Sonnet Award of the Poetry Society of America.
David Madden has been an actor and director as well as a playwright, poet and critic; he has edited two volumes on writers in the 30’s that Southern Illinois University Press will publish in February.
The stories and poems of Jack Matthews have been widely published in North America and Britain; his latest book is Hanger Stout, Awake! (Harcourt, Brace & World).
One-time director of the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union, Paul L. Murphy has two books forthcoming: The Meaning of Freedom of Speech (Harvard) and The Constitution in Crisis Times (Harper & Row).
Lawrence Olson, staff associate of American Universities Field Staff, is at work on a book about Japan.
Henri Peyre is Sterling Professor of French at Yale.
A frequent contributor to MR, William Pritchard teaches English at Amherst; his study of Wyndham Lewis will soon be published.
WM. Pitt Root has published short stories and poems in Atlantic Monthly, Hudson, Sewanee.
A short story by John B. Rosenman appeared in Patterns.
Larry Rubin‘s second book of poems, Lanced in Light, was published in September (Harcourt, Brace and World).
R. F. Storch is a graduate of Oxford now teaching at Tufts.
Burton Welcher is finishing a novel.
Jose Yglesias, novelist and translator, recently published The Goodbye Land (Pantheon), a study of life in Spain; his new book, In the Fist of the Revolution: Life in a Cuban Country Town is due this March.