Volume 3, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Jacques Callot
PANTALOON
ETCHING
Table of Contents
The Fish Concert, Fiction by Halldór Kiljan Laxness, translated by Kenneth G. Chapman and Wayne O’Neil
Stellaria, Poetry by Robert Francis
Genesis; After the First Refusal; Challenge and Response; Fulfillment; The Butterfly; The Aggressor; The Fallacy Revisited, Poetry by Gray Burr
Miss Dickinson, Poetry by Constance Hunting
Semi-Classical Poetry and the Great Tradition, Non-Fiction by Chard Powers Smith
It Looks as If It Were Just Sleeping; Advancement; A Reading of History; Wind-Water, Poetry by Leonard E. Nathan
Daphne; Firethorn, Poetry by Joan Swift
The Lost, Fiction by Miriam Goldman
The Running Peddler, Poetry by Charles Farber
Consoling Meditations on the Great Majority (II): Fathers, Poetry by Don Geiger
Calderón’s Strange Mercy Play, Non-Fiction by Edwin Honig
Contremarche; Promenade, Poetry by Robert B. Johnson
Mad Gardener to the Sea…; The Glass Castle, Poetry by Phyllis Webb
Nugatory Notes, Fiction by Hugh Stretton
Post Mortem; E = MC², Poetry by Dolores Stewart
The Etchings of Jacques Callot, Non-Fiction by A. Hyatt Mayor; thirteen reproductions; portrait of Callot; wood engraving by Leonard Baskin
The Civil War as Symbol and as Actuality, Non-Fiction by Oscar Handlin
The Minister, Poetry by Kenneth Pitchford
Early Longfellow, Non-Fiction by Newton Arvin
The Post-Office, Poetry by Joanne Childers
The Principle Is Growth, Poetry by James Hayford
Refugee, Poetry by Fred Stern
Reports from Abroad: Theater in France: Summer Impressions, Non-Fiction by Henry Popkin; Crisis in Saigon: the Sunday Morning Visitor Returns, Non-Fiction by Luther Allen
Homily for Robert, Poetry by Raymond Roseliep
One More Version of an Old Vision, Poetry by John Haag
Choices, Poetry by George Keithley
If I Could Hold You For Light, Poetry by Welton Smith
In Review:
The Good Life in Recent Fiction, Non-Fiction by Anne Halley
The Wound in the Heart: Two Volumes on the Spanish Civil War, Non-Fiction by Allen Guttmann
Real and Surreal: the Debt to Nathanael West, Non-Fiction by Marc Ratner
Hawthorne by Daylight, Non-Fiction by Raymond D. Gozzi
The Voices of Matthew Arnold, Non-Fiction by Douglas Bush
Contributors
Luther Allen is back at the University of Massachusetts after teaching for a year in Saigon.
Newton Arvin won a National Book Award in 1951 for his critical biography of Herman Melville.
Leonard Baskin was named Best Engraver at the International Biennial Exhibition at São Paulo this past summer.
Gray Burr has published widely, taught, and now lives and writes in Vermont.
Douglas Bush, one of the nation’s foremost scholars, is Professor of English at Harvard University.
Kenneth G. Chapman teaches English at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Joanne Childers lives with her husband and children in Gainesville, Florida.
Charles Farber is a metallurgist in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Robert Francis recently published his latest volume, The Orb Weaver, in the Poetry Series of the Wesleyan University Press.
Don Geiger, Associate Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Speech, is the author of a volume of verse and one of literary criticism; he is represented in Best Poems of 1958.
Miriam Goldman, a graduate of Radcliffe College, majored in music.
Raymond Gozzi, of the University of Massachusetts, has written a psychological study of H. D. Thoreau.
Allen Guttmann, whose book on America and the Spanish Civil War is to be published by The Free Press of Glencoe, teaches at Amherst College.
John Haag has appeared in many magazines here and abroad.
Anne Halley, who has published variously in MR, won a Longview Foundation award this year for a memoir in First Person.
Oscar Handlin, Professor of History at Harvard University, is the author of The Uprooted, which received the Pulitzer Prize in 1952.
James Hayford, represented in New Poems by American Poets—2, is music supervisor of the Orleans, Vermont Central School District.
Edwin Honig, who teaches English at Brown University, has published a book of verse, The Gazabos, as well as works on Calderon.
Constance Hunting writes criticism as well as verse; originally from New England, she now lives in Indiana.
Robert B. Johnson will have three poems from his forthcoming volume, Concentricities, in Le Mercure de France.
George Keithley is completing his second novel; he teaches at the University of Iowa.
Halldór Kiljan Laxness won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955.
A. Hyatt Mayor is Curator of Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Leonard E. Nathan won the Phelan Award for narrative verse in 1958 and a Longview Foundation poetry award for 1960.
Wayne O’Neil, last year a Fulbright scholar in Iceland, teaches at the University of Oregon.
Kenneth Pitchford is the author of The Blizzard Ape, a book of poems.
Henry Popkin, Associate Professor of English at New York University, will have an article on Roger Planchon in Show magazine.
Marc Ratner, of the University of Massachusetts, has appeared in American Literature, Scandinavian Studies and elsewhere.
Raymond Roseliep teaches at Loras College and is the author of The Linen Bands (The Newman Press, 1961).
Chard Powers Smith, poet and author of Yankees and God, lives in Vermont.
Welton Smith is a young San Franciscan.
Fred Stem works in advertising in New York.
Dolores Stewart has two children and hopes to start college next fall.
Hugh Stretton is an Australian who taught for a year in an American college.
Joan Swift has studied in the Poetry Workshop at the University of Washington.
Phyllis Webb received a Canadian Government Overseas Award in 1957; her latest book of poems, Even Your Right Eye, was published by McClelland and Stewart in 1956.