Volume 8, Issue 1

FRONT COVER: Jack Coughlin
GRAVESTONE

Table of Contents

One for the Grave, Drama by Louis MacNeice

Memorial, Poetry by Ann Stanford

Seven Sonnets, Poetry by Richard Eberhart

The Committal, Fiction by Walter G. Collett


Poems by Hugh MacDiarmid & Norman MacCaig:

A portrait of Hugh MacDiarmid by Leonard Baskin

By Wauchopeside, Poetry by Hugh MacDiarmid

Whuchulls, Poetry by Hugh MacDiarmid

The Royal Stag, Poetry by Hugh MacDiarmid

Assisi, Poetry by Norman MacCaig

Hotel Room, 12th Floor, Poetry by Norman MacCaig

Linguist, Poetry by Norman MacCaig

Neglected Graveyard, Luskentyre, Poetry by Norman MacCaig

Painting-“The Blue Jar”, Poetry by Norman MacCaig

You Went Away, Poetry by Norman MacCaig


Verse in the Theater: The Language of Tragedy, Non-Fiction by Martin Halpern

Revolution or Counter-Revolution in Brazil?, Non-Fiction by Iêda S. and Howard J. Wiarda

The Mexican-American Laborers: A Different Drummer?, Non-Fiction by Marjorie Fallows

Observer: Africa’s Olympiad of the Arts: The Dakar Festival, Non-Fiction by Thomas Cassirer

The Graves of Scotland Parish, Poetry by Donald Junkins

Obsession; the True Song, Poetry by John Montague

Will Tarzan Swing in Time, Poetry by David P. Young


IN REVIEW:

The Landscapes of Frederic Church, Non-Fiction by John Wilmerding

Toward an Understanding of C. S. Pierce, Non-Fiction by Murray G. Murphey

“Sound of Direction,” Non-Fiction by Linda Welshimer Wagner

A Note on Ariel, Non-Fiction by Barbara Howes

Contributors

Thomas Cassirer, under a Four-College Asian and African Studies Grant, attended the Dakar Festival and in the same program teaches a course on French-African Literature at Massachusetts.

Walter G. Collett, born in Iowa, who has travelled through the Pacific and has studied in the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, resides in Mankato, Minnesota.

Richard Eberhart, distinguished American poet, who teaches at Dartmouth, received a Litt.D. from Skidmore last June.

Marjorie Fallows, a graduate student at Massachusetts, has done field research in New Mexico, in 1949, and has published in Commonweal.

Martin Halpern, With the Drama Department at Brandeis, published Two Sides of an Island and Other Poems with North Carolina, and William Vaughn Moody with Twayne.

Barbara Howes‘ latest of four books of poetry is Looking Up at Leaves (Knopf),

Donald Junkins, whose The Sunfish and the Partridge was published by Pym-Randall, has taught in Cambridge, at Chico, and is now at Massachusetts.

Scotland’s greatest modern poet Hugh MacDiarmid will visit the American continent for the first time this spring, in company with another distinguished Scots poet Norman MacCaig. They will be at the University of Massachusetts in April after which MacDiarmid will read at the YM & YWHA in New York.

The late Louis MacNeice‘s One for the Grave receives its first publication in this issue of MR.

John Montague, visiting lecturer at his Alma Mater, University College, Dublin, published the latest of three books of poems, A Chosen Lights this year.

Murray G. Murphey, who has degrees from Harvard and Yale, teaches American Civilization at Pennsylvania and has published The Development of Peirce’s Philosophy with Harvard.

Ann Stanford, who has published poems, The Weathercock with Viking and Magellan with Talisman, is on leave from San Fernando Valley State College this spring.

Linda Welshimer Wagner has five degrees, the Ph.D. from Bowling Green where she teaches; her books on William Carlos Williams’ and Denise Levertov’s poetry will be followed by one on Williams’ prose.

Iêda S. and Howard J. Wiarda came from Brazil and Michigan respectively; married, they are specialists in Latin-American politics.

John Wilmerding, whose degrees are from Harvard and who teaches at Dartmouth, has one book on the painter Hugh Lane and another in progress on Robert Salmon.

David P. Young, in the English Department at Oberlin, won MR‘s Jessie Tane Award in 1965 and has translations of Montale in the New Directions Selected Poems.