Volume 9, Issue 2
FRONT COVER: J. Chailloux
Ira Aldridge as Othello, 1852
LITHOGRAPH
Table of Contents
Huckleberry Finn and the Nature of Fiction, Non-Fiction by Jane Johnson Benardete
Saying It; Kon in Springtime, Poetry by Tony Connor
Spring Commences, Poetry by Herbert Scott
A Miracle Down in the Second Platoon, Fiction by Robert Bense
Skirnir’s Ride, Poetry by Unknown, Translated by W.H. Auden and Paul B. Taylor, with notes by Peter H. Salus
The Boat, Fiction by Alistair MacLeod
Vietnamese Restaurant, Paris, Poetry by Robin Buss
Some American Negroes in Russia in the Nineteenth Century, by Mina Curtiss; with eight illustrations
Sophokles’ Antigone, Translated by Theodore Stinchecum
From Comedy to Terror, Non-Fiction by M. G. Cooke
Hunger Weather, Poetry by Michael Gregory
Drama: Eric Bentley: The Hero as Theatre Critic, Non-Fiction by Darko Suvin
Film: Gipsies and Gentlemen, Non-Fiction by T. J. Ross
Observer: Letter from New Delhi, by Leonard Nathan
IN REVIEW:
B. H. Haggin’s Reasonable Procedures, Non-Fiction by Robert Garis
McLuhan and His Commentators, Non-Fiction by Elizabeth Sewell
Socrates and Aristophanes, Non-Fiction by Jacob Klein
Naming and Conservatism, Non-Fiction by Alan Trachtenberg
To the Editor: Letter from a C.O. in the Army, by David Haracz
Contributors
W. H. Auden‘s most recent book is Collected Shorter Poems (Random House).
Jane Johnson Bernadete is the editor of Hamlin Garland’s Crumbling Idols (Harvard).
Stories by Robert Bense, who teaches English at William and Mary, have been published in numerous magazines.
Robin Buss is a young English poet.
Currently poet-in-residence at Amherst College, Tony Connor has served in the British Cavalry, been a textile designer and lectured in drawing, painting and social studies.
Princeton will publish M. G. Cooke‘s study of Byron’s poetry.
Mina Curtiss, a frequent contributor to MR, is the author of Bizet and His World; her article is part of Russian Encounters, a work-in-progress.
Robert Garis, professor of English at Wellesley, has appeared in Partisan, Hudson, Commentary.
Michael Gregory lives in California and his poems are widely published.
Jacob Klein is on the faculty of St. John’s College in Maryland; his Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra will be published this month (M.I.T.).
A native of New Brunswick’s Inverness County, Alistair MacLeod has worked variously as a farm laborer, a milkman and a miner.
Leonard Nathan, whose poems have appeared in Poetry, Shenandoah and New Yorker, spent last year in India with the American Institute of Indian Studies.
T. J. Ross is currently completing two books, one on theatre and one on cinema.
Peter H. Salus is Chairman of the Linguistics Program at the University of Massachusetts.
Herbert Scott will give readings this fall at the International Poetry Forum.
Chairman of the Experimental College at Fordham, Elizabeth Sewell has written three novels and numerous critical articles; her most recent publication, Signs and Cities, is her second book of poems.
Theodore Stinchecum is a New York actor and playwright.
A visiting lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, Darko Suvin is from Yugoslavia where his articles on drama have been widely published.
Paul B. Taylor is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Geneva.
A member of the English Department at Penn State, Alan Trachtenberg is the author of Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol (Oxford).