Volume 6, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: Gaspard Felix Tournachon
HONORÉ DAUMIER
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Table of Contents
The Politics of Design, Non-Fiction by John William Ward
Solipsist, Poetry by George W. Nitchie
The Articles of War; The Eagle Plain, Poetry by Robert Francis
Boomerang, Poetry by Joseph Francis Murphy
The Lyman Letters: New Light on Emily Dickinson and Her Family, Non-Fiction by Richard B. Sewall
Neighborhood Theater; Emergency, Poetry by Larry Rubin
The Wound; Night Song, Poetry by Ruth Domino
Reunion in Maine, Poetry by Robley Wilson, Jr.
The Scholar’s Woman, Fiction by Lee Yu-Hwa
News Item, Poetry by Leonard S. Bernstein
Poem About Hopping; Landscape in Three Lights, Poetry by David P. Young
Lone Wolf, Poetry by R. E. Sebenthall
Daumier: The Later Phase, by Oliver W. Larkin, with 12 reproductions by Honoré Daumier
Britannia’s Muse Revisited, Non-Fiction by Robin Skelton
The Godhead Search; The Magnetic Field; Estuary; A Note on Walt Whitman, Poetry by J. Edgar Simmons
Walter Lowenfels’ Poetic Politics, Non-Fiction by Allen Guttmann
IN REVIEW:
Red, White, Blue—and Black, Non-Fiction by Peter I. Rose
Recent Texts in Philosophy, Non-Fiction by F. W. Hagen and J. King-Farlow
The Achievement of Frederick Hoffman, Non-Fiction by Melvin J. Friedman
Dangerous Thoughts on Women, Non-Fiction by Muriel Haynes
To the Editor: Sartre’s Theory of ” Anti-Racist Racism” in His Study of Negritude, by W. A. Jeanpierre
Contributors
Leonard S. Bernstein will soon publish The Negro Snowman, his first book of poems.
Ruth Domino, an emigré from Germany in the thirties, now lives in Belgium, writes fiction in English, verse in Italian.
Robert Francis is a frequent contributor to MR.
Melvin J. Friedman is Associate Professor of English, University of Maryland.
Allen Guttmann is the author of The Wound in the Heart: America and the Spanish Civil War.
F. W. Hagen teaches at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Muriel Haynes has published in Studies on the Left and Views; she lives in New York.
Daniel Hoffman‘s most recent book of verse is The City of Satisfactions.
W. A. Jeanpierre is Professor of French at Briarcliff College, and a former Lecturer at the University of Ghana.
John King-Farlow teaches philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Lee Yu-Hwa‘s short story “The Last Rite” will appear in The Best American Short Stories of 1965.
Oliver Larkin won the Pulitzer Prize for Art and Life in America. His book on Daumier will appear this fall.
Jerre Mangione will publish two books this fall, a novel, Night Search, and Life Sentences for Everybody, satiric narratives.
Joseph Francis Murphy has published poems in The New Yorker and The Saturday Review.
George W. Nitchie recently published “A Note on Eliot’s Borrowings” in MR.
Peter I. Rose has recently returned to Smith College from his Fulbright Lectureship at Leicester, England.
Larry Rubin received the John Holmes Memorial Award for 1965; he teaches at Emory University.
R. E. Sebenthall has published in The Kenyon Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal and Epoch.
Richard B. Sewall is Master of Ezra Stiles College at Yale. He is currently at work on a biography of Emily Dickinson.
J. Edgar Simmons has published in The Nation, Perspective and The New Republic.
Robin Skelton is preparing an anthology of poetry of the forties and a collection of critical essays on Irish Poetry.
John William Ward is the author of Andrew Jackson: Symbol for an Age.
Robley Wilson, Jr. teaches writing at the State College of Iowa.
David P. Young is a member of the Department of English at Oberlin.