Volume 2, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: William Rimmer
POET, EMPEROR, WARRIOR
DRAWING
Table of Contents
An Armenian is Now a King, Fiction by Charles Tekeyan
The Hartford Circus Fire, Poetry by Edmund Skellings
In Search of the Indian Novel, Non-Fiction by Herbert McArthur
Toad; My Country Wife, Poetry by Lewis Turco
Mosaics: the Morning People; Men Standing Around, Poetry by Nancy Sullivan
Kabuki Recollected, Non-Fiction by John Tagliabue
Poem, Poetry by William Carlos Williams
Shakespearean Tragedy: Critique of Humanism from the Inside, Non-Fiction by Laurence Michel
Snowy Morning, Poetry by Claire McAllister
The Snow Prince; Truth is a Zoo; A Clown, Poetry by Harold Witt
The Autumn of Ideas, Non-Fiction by Renato Poggioli
The Anniversary; Climbing the Final Slope, Poetry by Lucien Stryk
To the Moulted Snake, Poetry by Doris Holmes
William Rimmer: His Life and Art, Non-Fiction by Lincoln Kirsten; with sixteen reproductions, by William Rimmer
A Year of French Politics and Theatre, Non-Fiction by Henry Popkin
Actopans, Poetry by Earle Birney
A Decade of Convictions: the Appeal of Communism in the 1930’s, Non-Fiction by Daniel Aaron
This Scene, Poetry by Harold Fleming
The Pulitzer Prize Treatment of Charles Sumner, Non-Fiction by Louis Ruchames
Toward a Model Movie Censorship Law, Non-Fiction by Loren P. Beth
Passage with Ancestors; Kid Sister, Poetry by S. Dorman
European Socialism at the Crossroads, Non-Fiction by Gerard Braunthal
IN REVIEW:
The Non-Theater of Bertolt Brecht, Non-Fiction by Denis Johnston
The Enduring Anti-Heroic, Non-Fiction by Edwin Burr Pettet
A Rigorous Semantic Theory, Non-Fiction by J. W. Swanson
Contributors
Daniel Aaron, Professor of English at Smith College, is the author of several books, including (with Richard Hofstadter and William Miller) The American Republic: a History of the United States.
Loren P. Beth, author of The American Theory of Church and State, teaches constitutional law at the University of Massachusetts.
Earle Birney, novelist and poet, on the faculty of the University of British Columbia, is this year visiting Professor of English at the University of Oregon; he is the editor of an anthology of Canadian poetry.
Gerard Braunthal of the University of Massachusetts was recently a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Frankfurt.
S. Dorman has appeared previously in MR, lives on Long Island.
Harold Fleming, graduate of the Bread Loaf School of English, teaches in the Abington (Pa.) Senior High School.
Doris Holmes will join the Milton Academy faculty in September.
Denis Johnston is Professor of Theatre at Smith College.
Lincoln Kirstein has been a central figure in American arts and letters for many years.
Claire McAllister, a Robert Frost Fellow in 1960, has studied in England and Ireland, where her first poems appeared.
Herbert McArthur is a member of the Seminar on South Asia, Program of Non-Western Studies, University of Vermont.
Laurence Michel teaches English at the University of Buffalo.
Edwin Burr Pettet is Chairman of the Department of Theatre Arts at Brandeis University.
Renato Poggioli, Harvard University, is at present in Italy.
Henry Popkin has recently edited Four Modern Plays: Second Series (Holt) and The Importance of Being Earnest (Chandler), out in November.
Louis Ruchantes, director of Hillel at Amherst, Smith, and the University of Massachusetts, is the author of Race, Jobs and Politics: the Story of FEPC and is the editor of A John Brown Reader (Abelard-Schuman, 1960).
Edmund Skellings of the State University of Iowa has two volumes coming out in the fall: In This Tone of Voice (Hillside Press) and Circus Fire (Qara Press).
Lucien Stryk is on the faculty at Northern Illinois University.
Nancy Sullivan has appeared in Accent, Perspective, Poetry.
J. W. Swanson teaches philosophy at the University of Massachusetts.
John Tagliabue has taught in Beirut, Pisa, Tokyo, and is now at Bates College; his first collection, Poems, went into a second printing last year (Harper).
Charles Tekeyan, author of New York Is All Ours (Beekman, 1956), lives in Brooklyn.
Lewis Turco teaches creative writing at Fenn College, Cleveland.
William Carlos Williams‘ collected stories and plays will be published in the fall.
Harold Witt, author of Beasts in Clothes (Macmillan, 1961), received the Phelan Award for Narrative Poetry in 1960.