Volume 4, Issue 3
FRONT COVER: Marion Morehouse
E. E. CUMMINGS
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Table of Contents
Poem [now i lay (with everywhere around)], Poetry by E. E. Cummings
Unity: an Impartial Report, Fiction by Judith Johnson Sherwin
Apples and Barns, poetry by Ruth Whitman
Cuba’s Shadow over the Americas, Non-Fiction by Ramón Eduardo Cummings
Sleeve, Fiction by Lloyd Zimpel
Freedom, Joy & Indignation: Letters from E. E. Cummings, Edited by Robert G. Tucker and David R. Clark
Death of a Mouse; The Gull and the Nun, Poetry by Carl Linder
Two Boys by Warm and Bluish Minnow Pools, Poetry by David Paradis
Decadence in Miniature, Non-Fiction by Renato Poggioli
Dog Bone Blues; Do-It-Yourself-Night; Hawks and Sparrows and Sparrows; Therzacat Boogie, Poetry by Keith Gunderson
Elegy in April; Strange Islands, Poetry by Alexander Taylor
Ralph Vaughan Williams: English and American Viewpoints, Non-Fiction by Elliott Schwartz
The Catbird Seat is not Really; Metaphysician Heal Thyself, Poetry by Ruth Beebee Fox
Outland Percussive, Poetry by Allen Planz
Tartuffe, IV, a new translation by Richard Wilbur
IN REVIEW:
The Hunter and the Hunted: Leon Edel and Henry James, Non-Fiction by Richard Poirier
Politics and Misrepresentation, Non-Fiction by Gordon E. Baker
Arms and the Poet: Eight Books of Verse, Non-Fiction by D. J. Hughes
Contributors
Gordon E. Baker of the University of California at Santa Barbara is an authority on the politics of reapportionment.
Ruth Beebee Fox teaches the 6th Grade at Boston Valley School in Hamburg, New York.
David R. Clark and Robert G. Tucker, of MR‘s editorial board, teach English at the University of Massachusetts.
Poems by Keith Gunderson have appeared in Prairie Schooner and other quarterlies.
D. J. Hughes is on the English staff at Brown University.
Poetry by Carl Linder has been published in many little magazines; he is also a play wright and film-maker.
David Paradis is a recent graduate of Boston College.
Allen Planz lives in Sylva, North Carolina.
Richard Poirier, author of The Comic Sense of Henry James, has recently been appointed chairman of the Department of English at Rutgers.
A specialist in Latin American his tory, Ramón Eduardo Ruiz, is editor of American in Maximillian’s Mexico: Diaries of William Marshall Anderson (Huntington Library, 1959).
On the music faculty at the University of Massachusetts, Elliott Schwartz is the author of a dissertation on the symphonies of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Fiction, poetry, and criticism by Judith Johnson Sherzuin has appeared in leading American periodicals.
Alexander Taylor teaches at the University High School of the University of Connecticut.
Ruth Whitman was winner last year of the Reynolds Lyric Award of the Poetry Society of America.
Richard Wilbur is well known for his four distinguished books of verse; in 1955 he published a notable translation of Moliere’s Misanthrope.
A resident of San Francisco, Lloyd Zimpel has written fiction for Carleton Miscellany and Transatlantic Review.
Renato Poggioli, eminent teacher, critic and translator, died in California on May 3, 1963 from injuries received in an automobile accident. At the time of his death, he was Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, Senior Fellow in the Society of Fellows, Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. In 1961 he served as Bacon Exchange Professor at the University of Paris; in 1962, as Lecturer in the Christian Gauss Seminars in Criticism at Princeton University. Professor Poggioli was the author of The Phoenix and the Spider (1957), The Poets of Russia: 1890-1930 (Faculty Prize: Harvard University Press, 1960), as well as other well-known books and articles in English and Italian. He left on his desk, in their final stages, two major works: The Oaten Flute, a study of pastoral poetry and the bucolic ideal; and The Autumn of Ideas, an essay about the notion of decadence in modern culture. Two chapters of the latter work have been published in The Massachusetts Review: “The Autumn of Ideas” in the Summer 1961, and “Decadence in Miniature,” in this issue.