Volume 14, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: Stephen Tomlin
VIRGINIA WOOLF, 1931
LEAD BUST
National Portrait Gallery, London
Table of Contents
Virginia Woolf Now, Non-Fiction by Millicent Bell
Bread is Born, Poetry by Anne Hebert, Translated by Maxine Kumin
How to Win, Poetry by Rosellen Brown
Sylvia Plath is Alive in Argentina, Poetry by Erica Jong
“Noble Shit”: The Uncivil Response of American Writers to Civil Religion in America, Non-Fiction by Leo Marx
The Wasp Room, Poetry by Helen Sorrells
The Noise in the Manger; Fears of Chosen; Wood Edge Animal; After the Operation; To Bury a Bird; It is Morning, Poetry by Henry Braun
Poems in Translation, Poetry by Robert Bly
The Cold Literal Moments, Non-Fiction by Dorothy Pitkin, Edited by R. C. Townsend
After Dreaming of Turtles, Poetry by William Doreski
Iphigénie and Tauride—The Reform of Opera and the Classic Vision, Non-Fiction by Greg Audette
Women in Three Sinclair Lewis Novels, Non-Fiction by Nan Bauer Maglin
Heritage: Alcuin, Non-Fiction by Nancy Rice
Do You Remember; Work, Poetry by Gyula Illyés
Arts in Review:
Movies 1973, Non-Fiction by Molly Haskell
American Fiction in 1973, Non-Fiction by Roger Sale
Struggling In Poetry, Non-Fiction by Anne Halley
Performing Arts: 1972-1973, Non-Fiction by Seymour Rudin
Contributors
Greg Audette of Hanover, New Hampshire writes regularly on music for MR.
Millicent Bell, whose most recent book is a study of Edith Wharton and Henry James, teaches at Boston University.
Poet and translator, Robert Bly lives in Minnesota. His translations have been a notable achievement, bringing new and other voices into the range of American attention.
Henry Braun has published poems before in MR; he teaches at Temple.
Rosellen Brown, a writer, is a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute this year.
William Doreski has published poems in a number of journals including Yale and Antioch Reviews.
Anne Halley, writer and teacher, is working on a book of memoirs for Random House.
A regular film critic for The Village Voice, Molly Haskell has just published a book called From Reverence to Rape (Holt, Rinehart).
Erica Jong‘s most recent book, a novel, is Fear of Flying.
Maxine Kumin‘s volume of poetry, Up Country, received a National Book Award.
Leo Marx is Kenan Professor of English and American Studies at Amherst College; the essay in this issue is based in part on a talk given to the Tudor and Stuart Club at Johns Hopkins.
Active in the women’s movement, Nan Bauer Maglin has published feminist criticism in a number of journals.
Nancy Rice is a poet working on a Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts.
Seymour Rudin regularly reviews drama for MR.
A volume of Helen Sorrells‘ poetry was published in 1971, and she has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
R. C. Townsend teaches at Amherst College.
Roger Sale, an editor for Hudson Review, teaches at the University of Washington.