Volume 1, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Donald R. Matheson
DRAWING
“To the Public
. . . a few friends of good letters have thought fit to associate themselves for the conduct of a new journal. We have obeyed the custom and convenience of the time in adopting this form of a Review, as a mould into which all metal most easily runs. But the form shall not be suffered to be an impediment. The name might convey the impression of a book of criticism, and that nothing is to be found here which was not written expressly for the Review; but good readers know that inspired pages are not written to fill a space, but for inevitable utterance; and to such our journal is freely and solicitously o fen. . . .”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the first issue of the Massachusetts Quarterly Review, December, 1847
Table of Contents
Frost and Emerson: Voice and Vision, Non-Fiction by Alvan S. Ryan
Somewhat Dietary, Poetry by Robert Frost
The God’s House, Fiction by Joanna Ostrow
15 years later, Poetry by William Carlos Williams
The Madman in His Cell: Joyce, Beckett, Nabokov and the Stereotypes, Non-Fiction by Allan Brick
D. H. Lawrence on Thinghood and Selfhood, Non-Fiction by G. Armour Craig
Free Will and Fire-Truck, Poetry by John Holmes
Two Kingdoms of Force, Non-Fiction by Leo Marx
Four Drawings and an Essay on Kollwitz, by Leonard Baskin
U.S. Military Policy and the Lesser Objectives, Non-Fiction by Edward L. Katzenbach, Jr.
NEW POETS OF NEW ENGLAND:
The Foolish Cat That Died On Hallowe’en; The Pioneer’s First Premise; An Autumn Lecture, Poetry by Leon O. Barron
Jacob, Poetry by Arnold Kenseth
Miss Cusack’s Familiars; The Edge, Poetry by Maxine W. Kumin
Report On A Gunnery Exercise; Over the Side; Coming through Fog; Footprints for Fresh Earth, Poetry by G. Stanley Koehler
Noah’s Cats, Poetry by Patricia Coombs
The Birch House, Poetry by Jon Roush
The Mass in the Grove; The Visitors; Winter, Poetry by Cornelia Veenendaal
Identification, Poetry by Jean Pedrick
Louisiana Secedes: Collapse of a Compromise, Non-Fiction by William C. Havard and Robert J. Steamer
Unknown Soldiers, Poetry by Louis O. Coxe
The Possibilites, Fiction by Robert G. Tucker
Poem, Poetry by E. E. Cummings
The Lion in the Cage: the Quixote of Reality, Non-Fiction by Sidney Monas
Purgatorio, Canto VI, Drama by Dante Aligheri; a new translation by John Ciardi
The Future of America’s Ideals: Three French Views, Non-Fiction by Paul A. Gagnon
Contributors
Alvan S. Ryan teaches English at Notre Dame.
Joanna Ostrow is at Stanford University on a writing fellowship; “The God’s House” is her first published story.
Allan Brick teaches English at Dartmouth.
G. Armour Craig and Leo Marx are on the faculty of Amherst College: Craig is working on a study of the English novel; Marx’s article is part of a full-length analysis of the pastoral motive in American experience.
Robert G. Tucker is at Iowa State University on a Danforth Fellowship.
Leon O. Barron and G. Stanley Koehler teach English at the University of Massachusetts.
Arnold Kenseth recently won first prize in The American Scholar‘s national poetry contest.
Maxine W. Kumin is on the faculty of Tufts College.
Jean Pedrick lives in Boston.
Patricia Coombs lives in Waterford, Connecticut.
Jon Roush is a graduate of Amherst College.
Cornelia Veenendaal is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts.
Edward L. Katzenbach, Jr. is professor of Government at Brandeis University.
William C. Havard and Robert J. Steamer are in the Government department at Louisiana State University.
Sidney Monas is finishing a book, The Politics of Russian Literature; he teaches History at Smith College.
John Ciardi‘s new volume of verse, Thirty-Nine Poems, will be published by Rutgers University Press in November.
Paul A. Gagnon teaches History at the University of Massachusetts.
Leonard Baskin‘s drawings, prints and sculpture are represented in thirty-five major collections. His work may be seen in the current exhibition, “New Images of Man,” at the Museum of Modern Art. The essay on Kollwitz served originally as an introduction to a showing of her prints at the Smith College Museum of Art.
Donald R. Matheson, whose drawing of Robert Frost appears on the cover, is a teacher in the Department of Art at the University of Massachusetts. His prints are on view in many museums, including the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Cincinnati Art Museum.