Volume 4, Issue 2

FRONT COVER: Leonard Baskin
ROBERT FROST
DRAWING
Table of Contents
On Robert Frost, Non-Fiction by Robert Francis, Charles W. Cole, Reginald L. Cook
Amherst Fall; A North American Visit, Poetry by Robin Skelton
In Egypt, Fiction by Ben Field
At the Winery, Poetry by Leonard E. Nathan
Autumn Knowledge; and Greened My Twelfth, Most Verdant Summer; This Magnet Hour; Incident at Wells Fargo, Poetry by Harold Witt
Soka Gakkai: Religion and Politics in Japan, Non-Fiction by Herbert J. Doherty Jr.
For Friends in Athens, Poetry by Gerda Norvig
Houses Lie, Believe the Lying Sea; Port Townsend, Poetry by Richard F. Hugo
The Brother, Poetry by Larry Rubin
The Novel as a Genre, Non-Fiction by Maurice Z. Shroder
John Heartfield’s Photomontages, Non-Fiction by Peter Selz; with fifteen reproductions
William Carlos Williams and Some Young Germans, Non-Fiction by M. L. Rosenthal
Three Pregnant Women, Poetry by Stephen Stepanchev
A Study of Fingers, Poetry by Barry Spacks
Trillium; April Hymn, Poetry by Raymond Kennedy
Ernst Toller: Drawn from Memory, Non-Fiction by Ruth L. Yorck
The Magician, Poetry by Arnold Kenseth
The Art of Ingmar Bergman, Non-Fiction by Charles Humboldt
The Sick-Soul-of-Europe Parties: “La Notte,” “La Dolce Vita,” “Marienbad,” Non-Fiction by Pauline Kael
Buster Keaton: An Interview, by Herbert Feinstein
How I Went Truant From School to Visit a River, Poetry by Mary Oliver
The Squire in April, Poetry by E. G. Burrows
She is the Girl, Poetry by Tracy Thompson
Thought in Time of Sorrow, Poetry by Norma Lay
IN REVIEW:
Equality and Affluence: Some Dissenting Views, Non-Fiction by Ely Chinoy
The Art of Victorian Life, Non-Fiction by Daniel F. Howard
Spain without Tears: America and the Spanish Civil War, Non-Fiction by Peter Stansky
The Miracle Worker, Non-Fiction by Roger Sale
Theatre in India: Bewildering Diversities, Non-Fiction by Samuel A. Eliot
Contributors
E. G. Burrows is author of The Arctic Tern.
Ely Chinoy is Associate Editor of the the American Sociological Review.
Former president of Amherst College, Charles W. Cole, is U. S. Ambassador to Chile.
Reginald L. Cook, author of The Dimensions of Robert Frost, teaches at Middlebury College.
Herbert J. Doherty, Jr. of the University of Florida has recently returned from Japan.
Samuel A. Eliot is writing a book on drama in ancient India.
Herbert Feinstein is a lawyer, professor, and film critic who lives in San Francisco.
Ben Field has written several novels, among them The Outside Leaf.
Robert Francis won MR‘s Jessie Tane Award for Poetry in 1962.
Daniel F. Howard is editor of a forthcoming scholarly edition of Butler’s The Way of All Flesh.
Richard F. Hugo‘s book of poems, A Run of Jacks, has just been published by the University of Minnesota Press.
Charles Humboldt is on the staff of The National Guardian.
Film criticism by Pauline Kael has appeared in Partisan Review and Film Quarterly.
Arnold Kenseth, of the English faculty at the University of Massachusetts, will soon publish his second book of poems, The Holy Merriment (University of North Carolina Press).
Houghton Mifflin has just brought out My Father’s Orchard, a novel by Raymond Kennedy.
Poems by Norma Lay have appeared in Audience and other journals.
Glad and Sorry Seasons, poems by Leonard E. Nathan, has just been published by Random House.
Gerda Norvig is a graduate of Bennington College.
Mary Oliver will publish her first book, No Voyage and Other Poems (J. M. Dent), in the fall.
Larry Rubin was Visiting Professor at the University of Cracow, Poland, last year.
M. L. Rosenthal is former Poetry Editor of The Nation.
Roger Sale writes for Hudson Review and teaches at the University of Washington.
Peter Selz is Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture Exhibitions, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Maurice Z. Shroder has recently published Icarus: The Image of the Artist in French Romanticism.
Robin Skelton was Centennial Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts 1962-1963; his latest books are The Dark Window and Six Irish Poets.
Barry Slacks is working on a novel.
Peter Stansky teaches History at Harvard University.
Poems by Stephen Stepanchev have appeared in The Nation and Saturday Review.
The poetry of Tracy Thompson has been printed in numerous periodicals.
Harold Witt‘s latest book of poems was Beasts in Clothes (1961).
Ruth L. Yorck is the author of five novels.