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October 1953

 
  • William O'Connor
  • Pearl Bond
  • Marcia Carlson
  • Leslie Fiedler
  • Harvey Gross
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Book Three: V: The Fox and the Goat

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Sunday Afternoon

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A Masque for Icarus

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Table of Contents

Three Fables of la Fontaine
  • Marianne Moore
    • Book Three: V: The Fox and the Goat
    • Book Four: XIV: The Fox and the Bust
    • Book Five: V: The Fox Shorn of His Tail
  • Pearl Bond
    • Sunday Afternoon
  • Marcia Carlson
    • A Masque for Icarus
  • Merrill Moore
    • Poetry Is Also like Riding on a Train
  • Rosalind Levine
    • Butterflies
  • Leslie A. Fiedler
    • Three Poems
  • Harold Witt
    • Photograph of Ghosts
  • John Woods
    • The Visits of My Aunt
  • Selwyn S. Schwartz
    • Marc Chagall
Two Poems
  • Ernest Kroll
    • Homer with a Camera
    • April 20, 1953
Three Poems
  • Harvey Gross
    • The Tapestry
    • Plans for an Orderly Apocalypse
    • Seven Views of the City
Seven Poems
  • Ruth Herschberger
    • The Huron
    • The Song Sparrow Chided
    • Hunt
    • Sweet Beast, Dear Cobra
    • The Robin
    • The Mouse
    • Mulberry Street
  • Hugh Kenner
    • Ezra Pound and Provision of Measures
  • Hayden Carruth
    • From Sej to Circumambages
  • Babette Deutsch
    • A Neglected Heritage
  • Evan Owen
    • Tradition and Forward
  • Ben Kimpel
    • Mr. Morgan's "Beowulf": C—
Opinion
  • William Van O'Connor
    • A Note on Rene Char
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Pearl Bond
  • Marcia Carlson
  • Hayden Carruth
  • Babette Deutsch
  • Leslie A. Fiedler
  • Harvey Gross
  • Ruth Herschberger
  • Hugh Kenner
  • Ben Kimpel
  • Ernest Kroll
  • Rosalind Levine
  • Marianne Moore
  • Merrill Moore
  • William Van O'Connor
  • Evan Owen
  • Selwyn S. Schwartz
  • Harold Witt
  • John Woods
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