Volume 2, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Leonard Baskin
PORTRAIT OF RODOLPHE BRESDIN
CARVED ROSEWOOD
Table of Contents
Liberals and Masses: the Challenge of Communication, Non-Fiction by Glenn Tinder
To the Waiters for Miracles, Poetry by John Woods
Between Wars: Poems from a Series, Poetry by Anne Halley
The Pole, Fiction by Gordon Browne
The Cricket, Poetry by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman; introduction by Mordecai Marcus
Advice to a Father Feeling His Capital Gains, Poetry by Stephen Sandy
Shakespeare’s American Fable, Non-Fiction by Leo Marx
Hallowe’en, Poetry by Richard Gillman
RODOLPHE BRESDIN:
Daguerrotype of Bresdin
(Letter) Baudelaire to Gautier, April 27, 1861
Bresdin l’Étrange, Non-Fiction by Claude Roger-Marx, Translated by Katherine Allen Clarke
Seven Lithographs, Art by Rodolphe Bresdin
Odilon Redon on his Master Bresdin, by Odilon Redon, Translated by Alexander and Anne Hull
Bresdin in America, Non-Fiction by Marius-Ary Leblond, Translated by Willard R. Trask
Paul Bresdin on his Father, Non-Fiction by Paul Bresdin, Translated by Robert B. Johnson
Flautist, Poetry by Deborah Austin
Lullaby and Aubade on a Hot Night; Ballard: Nausicaa, Poetry by Robert Bagg
Festivals of Autumn; Beach, Poetry by B. Colt
To an Artist Who Lost his Life’s Work in a Fire; Moths; Temple of the Muses, Poetry by Beth Bentley
Dewey’s Conception of Philosophy, Non-Fiction by Kai Nielsen
Mammorial Stunzas for Aimee Simple McFarcen, Poetry by Earle Birney
Aspects of the Moon’s Nature; An Almost Breathless Early Spring; Sonnet; A Midwinter Night’s Dream: Limbo, Poetry by Tracy Thompson
A Visit to Red Lake, Non-Fiction by Phyllis L. Liebling, with photgraphs by Jerome Liebling
Morgan Street, Poetry by Jerome L. Mazzaro
Wrung Dry, Poetry by Lloyd Zimpel
The Dance: Artistic Honesty, Non-Fiction by Jan Veen
IN REVIEW:
The Genius of Michelangelo, Non-Fiction by Dario A. Covi
Tragic Vision in the Modern Novel, Non-Fiction by Seymour Rudin
Hemingway’s Dangerous Summer, Non-Fiction by Kenneth S. Lynn
An Invaluable Survey of Western Music, Non-Fiction by Louise Rood
Slavery and Personality: A Fresh Look, Non-Fiction by John Hope Franklin
To the Editor: “On John Willett’s ‘Martin Esslin on Bertolt Brecht: a Questionable Portrait,'” by Martin Esslin; rejoinder by John Wilett
Contributors
Deborah Austin is at Pennsylvania State College.
Robert Bagg, recent winner of a Prix de Rome, now holds a National Defense Fellowship for graduate study in English at the University of Connecticut.
Beth Bentley is the director of the Pacific Northwest Poetry Reading Series in Seattle.
Earle Birney, Canadian poet, winner of two Governor’s Medals, is professor of English at the University of British Columbia.
Gordon Browne, a former teacher, moved to Cape Cod two years ago to devote his time to writing.
B. Colt lives in Tisbury, Mass.
Katherine Allen Clarke, who teaches French at the University of Massachusetts, has published translations of several novels by Jean Giono.
Dario A. Covi is chairman of the Art Department at the University of Louisville.
Anne Halley, whose poems have previously appeared in MR, has a prose memoir in the new magazine, First Person.
John Hope Franklin is chairman of the History Department at Brooklyn College; The Militant South is his most recent book.
Alexander Hull is head of the French Department at St. John’s College, University of Manitoba; Anne Hull, his wife, is at work on a study of Carson McCullers.
Richard Gillman, of Northampton, Mass., is a newspaperman and poet.
Robert B. Johnson, of the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Massachusetts, will publish three sonnets in Mercure de France.
Phyllis L. Liebling is a free-lance writer.
Jerome Liebling teaches in the Art Department at the University of Minnesota.
Kenneth S. Lynn, author of The Comic Tradition in America, is associate professor of English at Harvard.
Mordecai Marcus teaches English at Purdue.
Leo Marx‘s article is his second on the theme of American pastoral to appear in MR; both are sections of a forthcoming book.
J. L. Mazzaro teaches at the University of Detroit.
Kai Nielsen‘s article is based on a talk given at American International College; he lectures in philosophy at New York University.
Louise Rood is in the Music Department at Smith College.
Seymour Rudin, of the University of Massachusetts, is writing a book on the criticism of George Jean Nathan.
Stephen Sandy is a graduate student at Harvard.
Tracy Thompson, a Master’s candidate at San Francisco State College, is appearing currently in a number of journals.
Glenn Tinder, of the Department of Government at the University of Massachusetts, has published in the Nation and the Review of Politics.
Willard R. Trask lives in Brooklyn.
Jan Veen is director of the Dance Department at the Boston Conservatory of Music.
John Woods, at Western Michigan University, is the author of On the Morning of Color (1961).
Lloyd Zimpel, a San Franciscan, has contributed to the Transatlantic Review and New Republic.