Volume 4, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: B. E. Maxham
HENRY DAVID THOREAU, 1856
DAGUERROTYPE
Courtesy of Concord Free Public Library
Table of Contents
Colonel Higashi, Fiction by Kenneth Lamott
The Moods of a Matchmaker, Poetry by Leonard E. Nathan
Cousin Karl, Fiction by Robert Perlongo
A Visit, Poetry by Anne Halley
Second Sight, Poetry by John Haag
A Centenary Gathering for Henry David Thoreau
Portrait, Art by Leonard E. Baskin
A Legacy of Creative Protest, Non-Fiction by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Think of This, Yankees!, Non-Fiction by Reginald L. Cook
How It, so Help Me, Was, Non-Fiction by Joseph Langland
Man’s Duty as Man, Non-Fiction by Martin Buber
Thoreau and American Non-Violent Resistance, Non-Fiction by William Stuart Nelson
The Thoreau Romance, Non-Fiction by Louise Osgood Koopman
The Half-Hidden Thoreau, Non-Fiction by Carl Bode, with five reproductions
The Concord Academic Debating Society, Non-Fiction by Dorothy Nyren
Civil Disobedience: Principle and Politics, Non-Fiction by Leo Stoller
Letter from Jawaharlal Nehru
Thoreau In South Africa, a Letter from the Rev. Trevor N. W. Bush
The One and Only, Poetry by Gray Burr
Corn Grows in the Night, Non-Fiction by Theodore Baird
Conscience and Disobedience, Non-Fiction by Willard Uphaus
Thoreau’s Prophetic Testimony, Non-Fiction by Paul Lauter, wiTh two reproductions
Thoreau and the Danish Resistance, Non-Fiction by Anonymous
Thoreau’s Politics of the Upright Man, Non-Fiction by Richard Drinnon
Fanny Eckstorm’s Bias, Non-Fiction by Mary P. Sherwood
Walden Revisited, Poetry by Thomas P. McDonnell
Five Ways of Looking at Walden, Non-Fiction by Walter Harding
Henry Thoreau Once More, Non-Fiction by Stanley Edgar Hyman
Afterword, Non-Fiction by John H. Hicks
When the Core’s Sound, Poetry by Robert Bloom
The Cool Night, Non-Fiction by Vernon Gotwals
After the New Criticism, Non-Fiction by Murray Krieger
Light in Winter; Ritual, Poetry by Carl Gary
The Tower; The Faces, Poetry by Ann Stanford
Forest Fire; Apostate, Poetry by Scott Greer
IN REVIEW:
Robert Frost at Eighty-Eight, Non-Fiction by W. G. O’Donnell
Classic European Plays, Non-Fiction by Raymond Williams
A Sane View of Tragedy, Non-Fiction by Seymour Rudin
A Majestic Study of Feudal Society, Non-Fiction by Thomas N. Bisson
Contributors
Thomas N. Bisson is completing a book on French medieval politics.
The poems of Robert Bloom have appeared in Poetry and Prairie Schooner.
The poet Carl Cary is a ninth-grade teacher and mountaineer.
Vernon Gotwals has written a forthcoming book on Joseph Haydn.
Scott Greer will soon publish Via Urbana, a book of poems.
John Haag teaches at Pennsylvania State.
Anne Halley, in Germany for a year, is a frequent contributor to our pages.
John H. Hicks, Managing Editor of MR, teaches English at the University of Massachusetts.
Murray Krieger is the author of The New Apologists for Poetry and The Tragic Vision.
Stories by Kenneth Lamott have appeared in the New Yorker and Harper’s.
Random House will publish a volume of verse by Leonard Nathan next Spring.
William G. O^Donnell, a contributor to the recent Robert Frost: A Collection of Critical Essays, teaches at the University of Massachusetts.
Robert Perlongo is a fiction writer and poet.
Seymour Rudin writes frequently about the theatre.
The Weathercock, the third volume of poetry by Ann Stanford, will be issued by Talisman Press.
The English critic, Raymond Williams, is the author of Drama from Ibsen to Eliot.
A CENTENARY GATHERING FOR HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Theodore Baird is Samuel Williston Professor of English at Amherst College.
An exhibition of Leonard Baskin‘s work was recently held at Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
Carl Bode is editor of The Collected Poems of Thoreau and co-editor of Thoreau’s correspondence.
Martin Buber is the author of I and Thou.
Gray Burr has published poems in Poetry and the New Yorker.
The Rev. Trevor N. W. Bush was dismissed in 1960 as Chaplain at St. Andrew’s School, Bluenfontein, for condemning Apartheid and the Sharpville shootings. He fled South Africa in 1961 after a summons to answer charges of assisting the banned African National Congress of Chief Albert Luthuli.
Reginald L. Cook is the author of The Concord Saunterer, and Passage to Waiden; he is Director of the Bread Loaf School of English.
Jo Davidson, noted American sculptor, died in 1952.
Richard Drinnon, Bruern Fellow at the University of Leeds, wrote the recent biography of Emma Goldman, Rebel in Paradise.
Walter Harding, secretary of the Thoreau Society, is editing The Variorum Waiden and, with Milton Meltzer, A Thoreau Profile.
Sculptures by Malvina Hoffman are on permanent exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Stanley Edgar Hyman is staff writer for the New Yorker, teacher at Bennington College, and author of The Armed Vision, Poetry and Criticism, and The Tangled Bank.
The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. is president of The Southern Christian Leadership Conference. His creative protests at Montgomery, Alabama, and Albany, Georgia, are a part of the history of our time. The Measure of Man and Stride Toward Freedom are two of his books.
Louise Osgood Koopman, who is approach her own centenary, is the daughter of Ellen Sewall (Osgood).
A new volume of poems, Wheel of Summer, by Joseph Langland, Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts and one of MR‘s poetry editors, will appear early in 1963; with Paul Engle he recently brought out Poet’s Choice.
The essay by Paul Lauter is part of a work he has in progress on the rhetoric of the Transcendentalists; he has written for the Nation, New Republic, and other journals.
Thomas P. McDonnell is staff writer for The Pilot and editor of A Thomas Merton Reader.
Jawaharlal Nehru is Prime Minister of India.
William Stuart Nelson, Professor of Christian Theology and Vice-President at Howard University, is the author of Bases of World Understanding.
Dorothy Nyren, Librarian at Concord Free Public Library, has edited A Library of Literary Criticism.
A professional naturalist, Mary P. Sherwood has written frequently for scientific journals.
Leo Stoller, of Wayne State University, is the author of After Walden.
Willard Uphaus has taught at Yale Divinity School; his autobiography, Commitment, will be published in 1963.