Volume 6, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Leonard Baskin
BIRDMAN, 1964
WOODCUT
Table of Contents
Corollary to a Poem by A. E. Housman, Poetry by Andrew Goodman
Black Orpheus, Fiction by Jean-Paul Sartre, Translated by John MacCombie
In Minority; Within One Temperate Zone (1); Within One Temperate Zone (2), Poetry by Laura Ulewicz
The Return of Peredwr, Poetry by Rolfe Humphries
The Problems of the Negro Writer, Non-Fiction by Saunders Redding
Maratea Porto, Poetry by Richard Hugo
Evergreens Deck the Year, Poetry by R. G. Vliet
A Bargain, Fiction by James Ballard
Nuns by the Sea, Poetry by Robert Wallace
Letter to a Young Critic, Non-Fiction by Wright Morris
A Day in Court with the Literary Critic, Non-Fiction by Thomas Robischon
The White Horse, Poetry by Ann Stanford
Hometown; Big Mountain, Poetry by William C. Dell
The Devil’s Advocate, Fiction by Mary Doyle Curran
Cain the Beautiful; Your Turning Years, Poetry by Peter Viereck (from the German by Stefan George)
The Work of Edwin Romanzo Elmer; “Edwin Romanzo Elmer: As I Knew Him,” Non-Fiction by Maud Valona Elmer, with six reproductions
Eisenstein, Poetry by Lincoln Kirstein
Half the Characters Had Eagles’ Faces: W.B. Yeats’ Unpublished “Shadowy Waters,” Non-Fiction by David Clark
Irish Theatre Letter, Non-Fiction by Mary O’Malley
The Theatre of Edward Albee, Non-Fiction by Charles Thomas Samuels
IN REVIEW:
The Making of the English Working Class, Non-Fiction by R. K. Webb
Richardson’s Characters, Non-Fiction by David Daiches
Mississippi: Justice and Indoctrination, Non-Fiction by Jack Thompson
White and Black, Non-Fiction by Martin Oppenheimer
Contributors
James Bollard studied at St. John’s College of Annapolis, now lives in Piney River, Virginia.
David R. Clark, of the English faculty at the University of Massachusetts, is the author of W. B. Yeats and the Theater of Desolate Reality (Dolmen, 1964), which will be published next spring in this country by Dufour Editions.
Mary Doyle Curran, novelist and teacher, is the author of The Parish and the Hill.
David Daiches is the author of some twenty-two volumes.
William C. Dell has published articles in professional journals and lives in New York City.
Maud Valona Elmer died in Seattle in 1963. Interest in the work of her uncle, the American primitive painter Edwin Romanzo Elmer (1850-1923), has been growing steadily here and abroad.
Andrew Goodman was one of three civil rights workers killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi in the summer of 1964; he was twenty when he died.
Richard Hugo, author of two volumes of verse, is in Italy this year.
Rolfe Humphries, poet and translator, teaches at Amherst College.
Lincoln Kirstein, a frequent contributor to MR, has recently published Rhymes of a Pfc (New Directions).
John MacCombie teaches French at the University of Massachusetts.
Wright Morris‘s most recent books include Cause for Wonder (a novel) and The Territory Ahead (essays).
Mary O’Malley is Editor of the Irish literary magazine Threshold, and Director of the Lyric Players, who are now building a new theater in Belfast. To help finance the building they are selling permanent seats; a buyer’s name will appear on the seat and he may attend performances without a ticket.
Martin Oppenheimer teaches race relations at Haverford College.
Saunders Redding, this year a Fellow in Humanities at Duke University, is the author of The Lonesome Road, On Being Negro in America, and other volumes.
Thomas Robischon is a visiting professor at Tuskegee Institute.
Charles T. Samuels has appeared in The Yale Review and The American Quarterly; at present he is on leave from Williams College.
Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded and refused the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1964.
Ann Stanford has published several volumes of verse.
Jack M. Thompson specializes in southern history and teaches at the University of Massachusetts.
Laura Ulewicz has published verse here and in England, where she received First Prize in the Cheltenham Guinness Award.
Peter Viereck‘s books include The Unadjusted Man and The First Morning: New Lyrical Poems; he is Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College and a Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry.
R. G. Vliet has published poems and stories in the Hudson Review, Texas Quarterly, and elsewhere.
Robert Wallace, author of This Various World and Other Poems, teaches at Vassar College.
R. K. Webb is a member of the history department at Columbia University; he has published books and essays on Victorian social and intellectual history.