Volume 3, Issue 3
FRONT COVER: Harold Tovish
HYMAN BLOOM (detail)
BAS-RELIEF
Table of Contents
The Poet & The City, Non-Fiction by W. H. Auden
Thoreau in Italy; Sniper; Cinna; Edith Sitwell Assumes the Role of Luna or If You Know What I mean Said the Moon; The Packing Case; Dolphin; Observation; Coin Diver, Poetry by Robert Francis
The Fur Coat, Fiction by Miriam Goldman
Written after Hearing Ellington in Concert, July 1961, Poetry by John MacKay
Call of the Call-Girls (for N.M.), Poetry by Donald Finkel
Theses for the Atomic Age, Non-Fiction by Günther Anders
Castrato to Audience, Poetry by D. J. Hughes
In Ciudad, Poetry by Emilie Glen
A Forgotten Pool, Kona, Hawaii; Hurricane, Hilo, Poetry by Edith Shiffert
Elegy at a Railroad Station, Poetry by Thomas Whitbread
Five Literary Portraits, Non-Fiction by Mary Ellen Chase
The Saying, Poetry by Cid Corman
On a Warm Winter Day, on a Residential Street, Poetry by Edsel Ford
A Letter, Poetry by Leonard Unger
The British Public Psyche: an Analytical Sketch, Non-Fiction by R. J. Kaufmann
Mexican Independence Day, Fairmont City, Illinois, Poetry by John Knoepfle
Sow, Poetry by Lynn Lonidier
Lady in a Garden, Poetry by Richard Gillman
The Resurrection of the Dead, Poetry by Samuel Hazo
Eight drawings, by Hyman Bloom; with a note by Hyman Swetzoff
Edmund Wilson’s War, Non-Fiction by Daniel Aaron
One Summer in Paris, Memoir by Ralph A. Lewin
Trollope and the Modern Reader, Non-Fiction by Clara Claiborne Park
IN REVIEW:
From Between the Floorboards: the Voice of Abram Tertz, Non-Fiction by Sidney Monas
Empson’s Novel, Non-Fiction by Roger Sale
On the Concept of Law, Non-Fiction by George Pitcher
Democracy and Power in an American City, Non-Fiction by Earl Latham
A History of the Relations between Russia and the West, Non-Fiction by Joseph Rothschild
A New Vitalism, Non-Fiction by Paul de Man
To the Editor: “On Guttmann’s ‘The Wound in the Heart: Two Volumes on the Spanish Civil War,'” by John M. Muste; rejoinder by Allen Guttmann
Contributors
Daniel Aaron, Professor of English at Smith College, is the author of Writers on the Left: Studies in Literary Communism (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961).
Günther Anders, Austrian lecturer and writer, has for years actively opposed nuclear weapons and promoted world disarmament.
W. H. Auden, at present in Austria, will publish a book in the fall.
Mary Ellen Chase, Emeritus Professor of English at Smith College, noted novelist and writer on the Bible, describes herself as “a teacher by profession.”
Cid Corman, editor of Origin, contributed to MR‘s “A Gathering for WCW” (Winter, 1962).
Paul de Man is in charge of the comparative literature program at Cornell University and is completing a study of Mallarmé, Yeats and Stefan George.
Donald Finkel has appeared in many periodicals here and abroad; his first book, The Clothing’s New Emperor, was published in Poets of Today VI (Scribner’s).
Edsel Ford won the Arthur Davison Ficke Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America in 1962.
Robert Francis lives and writes at Fort Juniper, Amherst; he has published five books of poems.
Richard Gillman is Public Affairs writer at Brandeis University.
Emilie Glen has had her poems and stories printed in numerous magazines and anthologies; most recently, they were dramatized at the Gramercy Arts Theatre in New York.
Miriam Goldman‘s first published story appeared in MR (Autumn, 1961).
Samuel Hozo has two books forthcoming, Hart Crane (Barnes & Noble) and The Quiet Wars (Sheed and Ward).
D. J. Hughes teaches English at Brown University.
R. J. Kaufmann, author of Richard Brome: Caroline Playwright (Columbia, 1961), is Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Rochester.
John Knoepfle will publish his first book of verse, Driftwood Fire (Helicon Press), in the fall.
Earl Lathamy who is Joseph B. Eastman Professor of Political Science at Amherst College, is a member of President Kennedy’s Executive Council, Administrative Conference of the United States.
Ralph A. Lewin has published some forty scientific papers on algae (as well as a few poems and short articles); he is a marine biologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California.
Lynn Lonidier, a music graduate of San Francisco State College, has had poems in various West Coast periodicals.
John MacKay is a junior at Bowdoin College.
Sidney Monas, who teaches Russian history and literature at Smith College, is the author of The Third Section: Police and Society in Russia under Nicholas I (Harvard, 1961) and has translated, with an introduction, M. Zoschenko’s Scenes from the Bathhouse (Michigan, 1961).
Clara Claiborne Park is a part-time teacher at the Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, Mass, and a columnist for the Berkshire Eagle.
George Pitcher is in Oxford, writing a book on Ludwig Wittgenstein; he teaches philosophy at Princeton University.
Joseph Rothschild, Assistant Professor of Government at Columbia University, is the author of The Communist Party of Bulgaria (1959).
Roger Sale teaches English at Amherst College and has published reviews in the Hudson Review and MR.
Edith Shiffert lives in Seattle.
Hyman Swetzoff is the director of the Swetzoff Gallery in Boston.
Harold Tovish, well-known American sculptor, lives and works in Boston.
Leonard Unger, Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, is the author of T. S. Eliot: A Selected Critique and The Man in the Name: Essays on the Experience of Poetry.
Thomas Whitbread has published poems in Harper’s, The New Yorker and Kenyon Review.