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June 1939

 
  • Terence Heywood
  • W. Auden
  • Elizabeth Frost
  • Beatrice Goldsmith
  • Ruth Henderson
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Voltaire at Ferney

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Nocturne

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When Rimbaud Came to Charleroi

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Table of Contents

  • W. H. Auden
    • Voltaire at Ferney
  • Beatrice Goldsmith
    • Nocturne
  • Arthur Rimbaud
    • When Rimbaud Came to Charleroi
  • George Marion O'Donnell
    • Commencement Oration
  • Grace Fallow Norton
    • Dear Wolf
Two Poems
  • Ruth Evelyn Henderson
    • First Crossing
    • Postcard from Geneva
  • May Williams Ward
    • The Time of Delicate Petals
  • Boris Todrin
    • Durutti
  • Ted Olson
    • Words Said for Comfort
Three Sonnets
  • Inez Cunningham Stark
    • The Body
    • Julia Gibbs
    • Leonardo Meets His Mother
  • Rolfe Humphries
    • Draft Ode for a Phi Beta Kappa Occasion
Three Poems
  • Elizabeth Hollister Frost
    • Saturday
    • Old Age of Youth
    • Ultimate Snow
  • Berenice K. Van Slyke
    • Pursuit so Hidden
From "The Seasonal Man"
  • Samuel French Morse
    • Luke as Introspective
    • Scene for Further Drama
    • Allegory: The Wall
  • David Daiches
    • W. H. Auden: The Search for a Public
Reviews
  • S. Ichiye Hayakawa
    • The Allusive Trap
  • Richard Eberhart
    • Warmth and Ease and Charm and Aptitude
  • John Wheelwright
    • Toward the Recovery of Speech
  • Amy Bonner
    • The Poetry Market
CONTRIBUTORS
  • W. H. Auden
  • Amy Bonner
  • David Daiches
  • Richard Eberhart
  • Elizabeth Hollister Frost
  • Beatrice Goldsmith
  • S. Ichiye Hayakawa
  • Ruth Evelyn Henderson
  • Rolfe Humphries
  • Samuel French Morse
  • Grace Fallow Norton
  • George Marion O'Donnell
  • Ted Olson
  • Arthur Rimbaud
  • Inez Cunningham Stark
  • Boris Todrin
  • Berenice K. Van Slyke
  • May Williams Ward
  • John Wheelwright
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