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The Fountains of Rome

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Kenya Drums

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Why Should I Not Love Childhood Still?

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Table of Contents

  • Marya Zaturenska
    • The Fountains of Rome
  • Arthur Gregor
    • Kenya Drums
  • August Kadow
    • Why Should I Not Love Childhood Still?
  • Galway Kinnell
    • The Feast
  • Harry Roskolenko
    • Analogy
  • Hubert Creekmore
    • Mallarm in His Study
  • Philip Booth
    • North
  • V. R. Lang
    • Waiting and Peeking
Two Poems
  • Anthony Kerrigan
    • Druidical
    • Wildness Bred into a Plant
  • Jean Cocteau
    • From the Crucifixion
Opinion
  • E. E. Cummings
    • A Note on Jean Cocteau
Reviews
  • Maurice English
    • An Intelligent Romantic
  • Marshall McLuhan
    • Poetry and Society
  • Selden Rodman
    • Alastair Reid Is Introduced
  • Elder James Olson
    • The Schoolroom Poets
  • I. L. Salomon
    • An Irish Oracle at Delphi
  • Babette Deutsch
    • Talks to Teachers
  • Louis O. Coxe
    • Robinson's Selected Poems
  • Hugh Kenner
    • Hellas Without Helicon
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Philip Booth
  • Jean Cocteau
  • Louis O. Coxe
  • Hubert Creekmore
  • E. E. Cummings
  • Babette Deutsch
  • Maurice English
  • Arthur Gregor
  • August Kadow
  • Hugh Kenner
  • Anthony Kerrigan
  • Galway Kinnell
  • V. R. Lang
  • Marshall McLuhan
  • Elder James Olson
  • Selden Rodman
  • Harry Roskolenko
  • I. L. Salomon
  • Marya Zaturenska
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