Volume 7, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Thomas Eakins
WHISTLING FOR PLOVER (detail)
Table of Contents
A Conversation by Alexander Meiklejohn, Poetry by Josephine Miles
The Other Man, Fiction by Benjamin DeMott
The Four Ages; Recompense, Poetry by Douglas G. Worth
The Central Man: Emerson, Whitman, Wallace Stevens, Non-Fiction by Harold Bloom
In the Coastal Tower; What Was Real, Poetry by Alexander Taylor
Trying for Solitude, Poetry by Jack Lindeman
Mrs. Reardon’s Gamble, Fiction by Mary Doyle Curran
Dust and Death; Mitsubishi, Poetry by Tracy Thompson
How the Baby Pigeon . . .; Honeycomb A Go Go, Poetry by Keith Gunderson
Early December, Poetry by John Tagliabue
The Deal, Fiction by Leonard Michaels
To a Young Lady at the Museum, Poetry by Jonathan Aldrich
A Century of Negro Portraiture in American Literature, Nonfiction by Sterling A. Brown
Night Poem: Vancouver Island, Poetry by Robin Skelton
Traveler’s Agent, Poetry by Arnold Lazarus
The Negro in the Art of Homer Eakins, Introduction by Sidney Kaplan, 11 reproductions
The Origin of a Species, 1942-1957, Non-Fiction by Wright Morris
Stevens’ “Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery”, Non-Fiction by Helen H. Vendler
Observer: The Twenty-Fifth Year of Franco’s Peace, Non-Fiction by Jose Yglesias; Paul Elmer More, Non-Fiction by Barrows Dunham
IN REVIEW:
W. K. Wimsatt’s Criticism, Non-Fiction by R. C. Townsend
Three Plays by Ernst Barlach, Non-Fiction by Stephen Coy
Two Novels, Non-Fiction by R. V. Cassill
Aldrich on Art, Non-Fiction by Dorothy Walsh
Emily Dickinson: A Balanced View, Non-Fiction by Mordecai Marcus
The House of Commons, Non-Fiction by Barry McGill
Contributors
Jonathan Aldrich has returned to Argenta Friends School, B. C.
Harold Bloom will soon publish Yeats: A Study In Romanticism.
Sterling A. Brown is a member of the English Department at Howard.
R. V. Cassill is currently writer-in residence at Purdue.
Stephen C. Coy was Acting Director of the Kirby Theatre at Amherst in 1964-65. He now teaches at Dartmouth.
Mary Doyle Curran teaches writing at Queens.
Benjamin DeMott is the author of The Body’s Cage (1959) and Hells & Benefits (1963).
Barrows Dunham‘s most recent book was Heroes and Heretics (1964).
Keith Gunderson teaches philosophy at UCLA.
Sidney Kaplan, a former Editor of The Massachusetts Review, and Marvin S. Sadik, Director of The Bowdoin College Museum of Arts, are completing a book on The Negro in American Art, to be published by McGraw-Hill.
Arnold Lazarus is the editor of Quartet, published at Purdue.
Jack Lindeman‘s Twenty-One Poems was published in 1963. He teaches at Temple.
Mordecai Marcus teaches at the University of Nebraska, at Lincoln.
Barry McGill is a member of the Department of History at Oberlin.
Leonard Michaels is completing his doctorate at the University of Michigan. His last story in MR (“Sticks & Stones,” V,3) will be reprinted in the O. Henry Prize Collection.
Josephine Miles published Selected Poems in 1960. Her Eras and Modes in English Poetry has recently appeared in a revised edition.
Wright Morris‘s most recent novel is One Day.
Robin Skelton is the co-editor of The World of W. B. Yeats.
John Tagliabue, who teaches at Bates, will soon publish A Japanese Journal, a volume of poems.
Alexander Taylor is teaching in Denmark.
R. C. Townsend will spend next year in England as an Amherst College Faculty Fellow.
Helen Hennessy Vendler is at work on a study of Wallace Stevens’ long poems. She teaches at Smith.
Douglas Worth teaches at the Allen-Stevenson School in New York.
Jose Yglesias published a novel, Wake in Ybor City, last year.