Volume 6, Issue 2
FRONT COVER: Frederick Cruickshank
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
WATERCOLOR
by permission of Mr. Morris Tyler
Table of Contents
Sean O’ Casey: 1880-1964, Non-Fiction by David Krause
A Consolation; Word From Your Victim, Poetry by Leonard E. Nathan
A Death by the Seashore, Poetry by Tony Connor
The South That Is Man’s Destiny, Non-Fiction by Robert Coles
Moths; Birmingham, Poetry by Julia Fields
Kelly; Uptown, Poetry by Robert Hershon
Living In Sin, Fiction by David Ely
Whale of a Factory, Poetry by Anonymous; The Click of My Arrival, Poetry by Lajos Illes; Hymn of the Dead; My Homeland; Marine Morning, Poetry by Gabor Kocsis. All Translated from the Hungarian by Sonia Raiziss
James, Fitzgerald, and the American Self-Image, Non-Fiction by Kermit Vanderbilt
Not What Was, Poetry by Langston Hughes
Matrix, Poetry by Sandra Goding
Late Thoughts on Nathanael West, Non-Fiction by Daniel Aaron
You Outlive All Your Diseases Except One, Poetry by Ruth Whitman
Panic, Poetry by Gladys Ely
Resurrection, Fiction by Gideon Telpaz
The Mystery; Old As Pain, Poetry by Tracy Thompson
“Audubon’s Quadrepeds,” by Francis Murphy, with 10 reproductions by John James Audubon
The Student Rebellion at Berkeley—An Interpretation, by Richard M. Abrams
Some Beer Music; Cow, Poetry by Roger Weaver
Jean-Paul Sartre: From the Roof of the World, Non-Fiction by Bernard Elevitch
Quasimodo On Sunday; Between Flying and Falling, Poetry by Richard Gillman
Death and Tragi-Comedy: Three Plays of the New Theatre, Non-Fiction by Rosette Lamont
A Note on Eliot’s Borrowings, Non-Fiction by George W. Nitchie
To the September Bathers, Poetry by Doris Holmes
T. S. Eliot: 1888-1965, Non-Fiction by Leonard Unger
IN REVIEW:
Poems Public and Private, Non-Fiction by Mary Doyle Curran
The Uncomfortable Middle, Non-Fiction by David E. Smith
The Real Wyndham Lewis, Non-Fiction by William H. Pritchard
On Prizes and Prize Winners, Non-Fiction by Sumner M. Greenfield
The Return of More’s Laundered Asceticism, Non-Fiction by Arthur Hazard Dakin
Yeats as Dramatist, Non-Fiction by John Unterecker
Nourishment, Poetry by Walt Phillips
Letters of Timothy Dwight and John Taylor, edited by R. H. Brown
Contributors
Daniel Aaron, author of Writers on the Left (1961), is at the Huntington Library in California, on leave from Smith College.
Richard M. Abrams teaches history at Berkeley.
Richard H. Brown is Director of the Committee on the Study of History.
Robert Coles is Research Psychiatrist to the Harvard University Health Services and Consultant to the Southern Regional Conference.
Tony Connor, author of With Love Somehow (Oxford, 1962) and of Lodgers, out this spring, was born, and lives in Manchester, England.
Mary Doyle Curran, author of a novel (The Parish and the Hill), teaches at Queens College, New York.
A. H. Dakin has published a biography of Paul Elmer More (Princeton, 1960).
Bernard Elevitch, a contributor to the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Philosophy; he is at work on a study of Gaston Bachelard.
David Ely has published two novels, Trot (1963), and Seconds (1963), and short stories in numerous magazines.
Gladys Ely has appeared in Poetry and teaches classics at the Brearley School, New York.
Julia Fields has verse in New Negro Poets, and other anthologies.
Richard Gillman is Director of the Public Affairs Department at Brandeis University and a widely published poet.
Sandra G. Goding is a physician on the surgical staff at the Cooley Dickenson Hospital, Northampton.
Sumner M. Greenfield teaches Spanish at the University of Massachusetts and writes on twentieth century Spanish theatre.
Robert Hershon lives in Brooklyn.
Doris Kirk Holmes teaches at the Milton Academy (Milton, Mass.).
Langston Hughes, poet, fiction writer, dramatist, essayist, has been one of America’s leading men of letters for forty years.
David Krause is the author of Sean O’Casey, The Man and His Work (1960) and editor of the forthcoming letters of O’Casey.
Rosette C. Lamont has published articles on French drama in various professional journals.
Leonard E. Nathan appears frequently in MR; his latest book, on Yeats, is forthcoming from Columbia.
George W. Nitchie has published verse and a critical work on the poetry of Robert Frost (Duke, 1960).
Walt Phillip is a reporter in Greenfield, Mass.
William H. Pritchard, of Amherst College, has completed a book on Wyndham Lewis.
Sonia Raiziss, a former Guggenheim fellow, is at present poetry editor of Chelsea.
David E. Smith is at work on a study of “Millenarianism in America”; his John Bunyon in America is forthcoming from Indiana.
Gideon Telfaz, now living in Massachusetts, has published some twenty stories in Hebrew.
Tracy Thomfson lives in Kyoto, Japan.
Leonard Unger is well-known for his work on T. S. Eliot.
John Unterecker is a prominent Yeats specialist.
Kermit Vanderbilt, the biographer of Charles Eliot Norton, is completing a book on W. D. Howells.
Roger Weaver is a graduate student at the University of Oregon.
Ruth Whitman has her second collection of poems (The Marriage Wig) forthcoming, as well as an Anthology of Yiddish Poetry that she is translating.