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July 1942

 
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  • Allen Curnow
  • James Daly
  • Walter de La Mare
  • Babette Deutsch
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Apocalypse

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The Day's Lesson

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The Jackdaws

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Table of Contents

Five Poems
  • John Frederick Nims
    • Apocalypse
    • The Golden Age
    • Elegy ("We saw you last...")
    • From the Greek Anthology
    • Seamusic
Two Poems
  • Babette Deutsch
    • The Day's Lesson
    • Recovery
  • Walter de La Mare
    • The Jackdaws
Four Poems
  • James Daly
    • Chaplin on Fifth Avenue
    • Moment of Summer
    • The Asker
    • Diamond Point
  • Virginia Hamilton
    • The Possessed
  • Norman Lewis
    • Ugly Hour
  • Clark Mills
    • A Few Faces from the Crowd
  • P. K. Page
    • The Mole
  • Robert Whittington
    • The Vacation
  • Eve Merriam
    • Furniture
  • James Hearst
    • The Fence Row
Two Poems
  • Edwin Morgan
    • Fireworks
    • Toro
  • Allen Curnow
    • Sailing or Drowning
  • Roy Fuller
    • The Festival
  • Alan S. Downer
    • The New "Theatrum Poetarum"
Reviews
  • Stanley Kunitz
    • In the Beginning
  • E. S. Forgotson
    • The New Line and the Old Bottle
  • H. R. Hays
    • To Be Sung or Shouted
  • Edouard Roditi
    • In a Silver Sea
  • Max Jakob
    • Hans Sahl in Exile
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Allen Curnow
  • James Daly
  • Babette Deutsch
  • Alan S. Downer
  • E. S. Forgotson
  • Roy Fuller
  • Virginia Hamilton
  • H. R. Hays
  • James Hearst
  • Max Jakob
  • Stanley Kunitz
  • Norman Lewis
  • Eve Merriam
  • Clark Mills
  • Edwin Morgan
  • John Frederick Nims
  • P. K. Page
  • Edouard Roditi
  • Robert Whittington
  • Walter de La Mare
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