Volume 1, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: Gaston Lachaise
PORTRAIT OF MARIANNE MOORE
plaster (1924); bronze (1946)
Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Table of Contents
What was Modernism? Non-Fiction by Harry Levin
The Boy with the Limp, Poetry by Larry Rubin
Behind the Hill; The Coyote, Poetry by Carter Revard
Dorian Woman, Fiction by Gary Elder
Scape-Grace; Night Creatures; Ghost Stories, Poetry by Dilys Laing
Shakespeare in His Sonnets, Non-Fiction by C. L. Barber
Priest’s Diary: Two Entries, Poetry by Raymond Roseliep
Gaston Lachaise, 1882-1953, Non-Fiction by Donald B. Goodall
Eight Sculptures; A Comment on my Sculpture, Non-Fiction by Gaston Lachaise
Time and Place, Poetry by Samuel French Morse
Prince of Decorum, Poetry by Sam Bradley
A Plaint of Flowers, Poetry by Ernest Sandeen
Crisis in Higher Education: Economy or Quality? Non-Fiction by Ellsworth Barnard
An Exercise in Observation, Poetry by Walker Gibson
Epiphany; At Chartres, Poetry by May Sarton
Lobster Pound, Poetry by Jean Pedrick
An Autumnal; To a Classical Fragment, Poetry by David Leviten
The Hidden Structure of Philosophical Theories, Non-Fiction by Morris Lazerowitz
Rarity, Poetry by Ralph Robin
Soliloquy, Poetry by Louis O. Coxe
For Winslow Homer, Poetry by Edward Locke
The Problem of “Mariana Pineda”, Non-Fiction by Summer M. Greenfield
Northeast Country Summer, Poetry by Nyleen Morrison
IN REVIEW:
Constants Carried Forward: Naturalness in Robert Francis’ Poems, Non-Fiction by John Holmes
Working Away at Lawrence, Non-Fiction by Roger Sale
A Stranger and Afraid, Non-Fiction by Paul Lauter
The New Burke Correspondance, Non-Fiction by John C. Weston, Jr.
On Reading: “The Poem Itself,” Non-Fiction by Leon O. Barron
Contributors
C. L. Barber of Amherst College, author of Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy, will be a visiting professor at Princeton next year, engaged in research.
Ellsworth Barnard, who teaches at Northern Michigan College, has published books on Shelley and E. A. Robinson, and is now at work on a biography of Wendell Willkie.
Leon O. Barron gave a course in poetry at Chautauqua in July.
Sam Bradley is an editor of Approach.
Louis O. Coxe, Pierce Professor of English at Bowdoin, is the author of Middle Passage, Poem (University of Chicago Press).
Gary Elder lives near San Francisco; “Dorian Woman” is his first published story.
Walker Gibson is director of freshman English at NYU.
Donald B. Goodall is chairman of the Department of Art at the University of Texas.
Sumner M. Greenfield, who teaches Spanish at the University of Massachusetts, is working on a stylistic study of Lorca’s theatre.
John Holmes, professor of English at Tufts, has completed a new book of poems, The Fortune Teller (Harper).
Dilys Laing‘s posthumous volume, Poems from a Cage, will be published soon by Harper.
Paul Lauter has reviewed fiction for the Nation; he teaches at Hobart and William Smith College.
Morris Lazerowitz of Smith College is the author of The Structure of Metaphysics.
Harry Levin is Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard; his “What was Modernism?” was an address delivered to the Humanities Association of Canada in June.
David Leviten, a graduate of UCLA, lives in Boston.
Edward Locke, director of the East Paterson Public Library, N. J., has appeared in numerous magazines.
Samuel French Morse, on leave from Mount Holyoke College this year, has an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship to work on a critical biography of Wallace Stevens.
Nyleen Morrison is women’s editor of the Concord, N. H. Daily Monitor.
Jean Pedrick, author of a novel, The Fascination (Houghton Mifflin, 1947), has since devoted her time to poetry.
Carter Revard is in the English Department at Amherst College.
Ralph Robin, poet and short story writer, teaches creative writing at The American University.
Larry Rubin, at Georgia Tech., is now working on his second novel.
Raymond Roseliep also appears in the Chicago Review this summer, with an essay on his work by John Logan.
Roger Sale teaches at Amherst College.
Ernest Sandeen has published articles on Faulkner, James and Whitman, and is the author of Antennas of Silence.
May Sarton is summering in New Hampshire.
John C. Weston, Jr., teaches at the University of Massachusetts.
William F. Schneider, assistant director of Public Relations, Rockefeller Center Inc., gave his generous help in assembling some of the Lachaise material.
The reproductions of the photographs of the Lachaise sculptures were done by The Meriden Gravure Company, Meriden, Connecticut.