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Presents several letters to the editor. Comment on the denial of the bid of the Currier Lumber Company on 300 defense houses in the Detroit area by the Federal Works Agency; Grievances of the concert-goers and listeners regarding negligence of excellent music in orchestras; Dissatisfaction on the articles published criticizing the German Race; Comment on a plan involving talks to the men of the army by college professors and well dressed newspaper correspondents to boost the morale of the American Army; View on the new anthologies of poetry; Comment on an article "Slaughter" by Jesse Reinsford Sprague, published in the October 6 issue; Excerpts from a poem sent for publication in a daily news paper; Agreement with Sprague's article in which he says that he is willing to continue radio stations as a part of the capitalistic economy; Comment on a statement of the article "Canada and Conscription," published in the July 28 issue.

Focuses on the publication of column "New Verse" on poetry of new poets by the newspaper "Providence Sunday Journal." Report that the publication of the unpublished poetry which the editor thought to be of honorable literary quality, was a newspaper experiment; Communication from Rhode Island state group, the Quinsnicket Writers; Allegation of the group on the paper of giving the public a very false idea of what passes for poetry or verse; Appreciation by some readers of this lively experiment; Apprehensions on the column; View that such a column is not subject to the financial vicissitudes of the little magazines, yet even with the continued cooperation of poets and of Providence Journal authorities it should probably not continue too long.

The article gives information about the book "Necessary Angel," by Wallace Stevens. The seven papers assembled here are mostly occasional pieces, composed to be understood at a hearing. For this reason they are a body of notes rather than a systematic ars poetica. Many of these cluster about Stevens' persistent, possibly central theme: the dilemma of the active imagination in a world drained of myth which the poet can elaborate.

This article focuses on the book "Collected Poems," written by Edna St. Vincent Millay. The poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay have up to the present existed in more than twenty volumes. It makes a big book. The type is handsome, the paper heavy, and the cover, though its sharply pointed corners dig into your palms, is attractive. This is obviously a book to live with. Anyone who comes late to the poet, with nothing personal to go on except the photograph on the wrapper in which the stoical features have a tragic, almost an Indian, starkness cannot complain of scant material. Its poetic form should defy the worm, and its feeling is never prinked or smartened after the first timid and propitiating pages.

Reflect on the virtue of knowing nothing in poetry. Views that contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious about themselves; Assertion that there can be no professors of poetry; Role of inspiration in making poems.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Discussion on the review of the book "Bureaucracy Convicts Itself"; View an unscrupulous political conspiracy on the part of chief Forester Gifford Pinchot; Comments on the corrupt conspiracy to slander an innocent man; Improvement in the U.S. economic policy; Opinion of author George Orwell on English writing on war; Report on Randall Jarrell's piece on poetry criticism.

Presents a letter to the editor commenting on an anti-poem on life to print under the title "So Prepare to Be Shaved Without Soap."

The article focuses on the book "The Note-Books of Matthew Arnold," edited by Horward Foster Lowry, Karl Young and Waldo Hilary Dunn. At first glance these 650 pages tiny have a forbidding look even to one who knows something of Arnold and admires his intelligence and integrity. Most of the papers in which Arnold worked out his poetry and prose have disappeared. Thus the "Notebooks" will always be the best means scholars have for tracing his ideas to their origins. In their introduction the editors raise the question whether Arnold was a learned man and whether the book gives evidence that he was. The great thing about Arnold is that he put his knowledge and intelligence to work for the public good.

Several letters to the editor are presented including a response to the article "Hitler As Thinker," by Max Lerner, an article on fascism and a letter regarding poetry.

Presents information on the American Writers' Congress. Recognition of the current congress being the best out of the three that have been held by the League of American Writers; Presence of foreign writers in the congress; Comments on the book titled "The Grapes of Wrath"written by John Steinbeck; Identification of mediums through which poems can reach a wider audience; Significance of writers' exchanging views.

Profiles Pablo Antonio Cuadra, poet and co-director of the newspaper "La Prensa" while the Sandinista National Liberation Front was in power in Nicaragua. Political views of Cuadra about the Sandinistas; Treatment of Cuadra by the Sandinistas; Views of Cuadra against the Sandinistas; Order of Sandinistas to close the newspaper; Description of Sandinistas as enemies of Christianity; Personal and professional background of Cuadra; Geographical features of Nicaragua; Features of poetry written by Cuadra.

Discusses trends in poetry and literature in the twentieth century. Precision and concreteness prevalent in poetry; History of European literature before World War I; Impact of World War II on art; Poetry of Tadeusz Rozewicz and its simplicity; Probably impossibility to create an art that could answer to the terror of those extreme experiences of the World Wars; Cost of rooting oneself in reality; Work of Polish essayist Jerzy Stempowski.

Looks at the life and work of monk and poet Thomas Merton. Number of volumes of poetry and prose written by Merton; Merton as the most eloquent theorist of non-violence; Paradoxes of Merton's life; Central problem which plagued the last decade of Merton's life; Merton's affinity with Zen; Poet and essayist George Woodcock's interpretation of Merton's thoughts; Primitive fatality about the obituary which reported Merton's death on December 11, 1969.

Presents poems about various topics, contributed to "The New Republic" periodical. "Hearing of the End of the War," by Richard Tillinghast; "To a Friend in Asia," by Judith Baumel; "Getting Up to Look at Charcoal," by Rachel Hadas.

Focuses on the depiction of philosophical concept of order in human life in works of art. Appraisal of changes in human intuitions, perceptions and metaphor in works of artists and scientists; Overview of paintings by Paul Cézanne; Representation of remedies for human problems in poetry; Changes in observation depicted by German physicist Werner Heisenberg.

Presents the author's evaluatory description about the history and evolutionary literary style, based on epic literature. Experiences during the author's visit to India and seeing "Ramleela," the epic dramatization of the Hindu epic "Ramayana"; Evaluation of the cultural traditions associated with performing epic drama; Felicity of epical customs; Discussion of the Antillean art and culture; Features of poetry as a method of self-discovery; Fragmented languages and cultural influences on literature; Evaluation of the Antillean art as the restoration of shattered histories.

Shares the author's insight regarding the connection between poetry, myth and revolution. His view of the relation between the defense of poetry and the defense of liberty; Definition of liberty by the author; Contrasts between the modern poetry and the poetry of the past; Dual nature of revolution; Difference between revolutionary beliefs and religious beliefs; Comparison between the reactionary criticism of revolutions and the liberal criticism of revolutions; His illustration of the spiritual state of poets when confronted with the disasters of modernity; View of the contribution of poetry to the reconstruction of a political thought.

Offers observations on arts, literature, poetry and language. Lessons that art teaches to artists; Reason why art in general and literature especially is not favored by champions of the common good; Dignity in the arts profession; Role of language and literature in the evolution of social organization; Factors responsible for development of art; Views of poet Matthew Arnold about poetry.

Presents the author's experiences when he lived with his grandparents in Long Branch, New Jersey. His memories of life as an American Jew; Reaction of some people to is decision to move to California to become a writer; Analysis of the closing stanzas of Edward Arlington's poem "Eros Turannos" regarding the relationship of the individual to the provincial community.

Presents information on the condition of poets in Eastern Europe. Information that for a long time poets there have had a strange reason for bitter pride in fact that their colleagues have been killed and imprisoned in Eastern Europe; View that their words were really dangerous to dictatorships; Claim that poetry is the most complete version of an individual mind's resistance against the pressure of totalitarianism; Claim that there is no prison in which poetry could be incarcerated.

Presents several social issues affecting American society. Details of letters of the contributing writers in the "Public Pulse" in the issue of bathing practices; Suggestion of the author to the publication that the publication must print two or three letters from thoroughly stupid correspondents and to print not only letters but reports of talks; Criticism of German professor Kuno Meyer on Harvard University president John Lowell for allowing to published "The Advocate" as the best war poem; Assertion of Meyer that the university has been guilty of gratuitous and shameless insult to the honor and fame of a friendly nation.

Characterizes the works of poet Robert Frost. Lyrics of Frost that mark him as a severe and unaccommodating writer; Examination of his poems that unite satire and didacticism; Role of the poet's use of a mode of false pastoral in the appeal of his poems; Style used in his dramatic poems.

Profiles poet Elinor Wylie. Most conspicuous act of her life; Favorite quotation of Wylie; Wylie's dream-face; Description of herself.

Presents a biography of U.S. poetess and critic Amy Lowell. Physical appearance of Lowell; Acclamation of the poetic leadership of Lowell; Characteristics of Lowell; Relationship of Lowell with U.S. poet and essayist James Russell Lowell; Narration of author's experiences with her; Persons who influenced Amy Lowell's artistic and human destiny; Role of Amy Lowell in restoring the profession of poet to respectability, even to romance in the U.S.; Reference to her poem "Lilacs."

Discusses the ideals of writing a poem. Description of a free verse in a poetry; Details on the values of verbal rhythm in a flow of thought and feeling which exist for one individual alone; Accounts on the heart of rhythmical speech expressed and exposed with a perfectly childlike and candid grandeur.

Comments on the importance of social science and culture in the U.S. Determination of the simpler class of people; Role of social scientist in promoting unselfishness, municipal organization or public welfare; Contribution of religion and poetry on the perfection of the quality of men's living; Significance of culture to heighten the sense of antiphonal radiance; Determination of the sociological writing toward a mechanistic style.

Relates the experience of a British soldier in the trenches, who found solace in poetry amid the grim surroundings of the dead, the wounded and the explosives. Experience of crying from pure joy on hearings the lines of a poem being read by someone in a dugout; Decision to get copies of poems he liked which wrote in a booklet which he always kept in the pocket of his tunic.

Features Russian poet Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko. Background on the influence of rebelliousness in his family; Impact of a poem by Yevtushenko dealing with the prevalence of anti-Semitism in the Soviet society; Analysis of his poem "Station Zima."

The article profiles poet Harold Hart Crane. He was born in Garrettsville, Ohio, July 21, 1899. Finding both inspiration and provocation in the poetry of T. S. Eliot, his works was traditional in form, difficult and often archaic in language, and sought to express something more than the ironic despair that he found in Eliot's poetry. Though frequently condemned as being difficult beyond comprehension, he has proved in the long run to be one of the most influential poets of his generation.

Presents information on the author's experience of going to Manhattan, New York. Plans of the author be in Woodstock and spend rest of the week; Report on the guest of the author, William Slater Brown, a writer; Decision for the manuscripts assembled for the new issue of Broom, being undistinguished; Offers a look on three hours of writing by the author and his friends; Views on art being a tree by one of author's friend; Focus on the author's plan to go to Manhattan; Efforts of the author to enter the hotel he had to stay; Focus on letter written by the author to himself; Discussion of New York as a city for those returning from abroad; Information on letters the author wrote to Kenneth Burke, a person who left city life and settled in country side in 1923-24; Wish of the author to read books by philosopher Plato; Information on the poem "The Poet Assassinated," by the author; Views of the author on functions of poetry; Opinion of the author on returning of exiles and their day-to-day life.

Focuses on the development of the French literary school of Symbolism in contemporary French and English literature. Information on Villiers de L'Isle-Adam's "Axël," a long dramatic poem in prose; Story of Count Axel of Auesburgh presented in the book; Merits of the book; Literary style of de L'Isle-Adam; Description of poet Arthur Rimbaud as another promoter of Symbolism; Professional background of Rimbaud; Topics of romance discussed in poetry of Rimbaud; Comparison of Rimbaud with the poetry of French poet Paul Verlaine.

Presents information on Paul Valéry, French poet and essayist. Recognition of Valéry being the most loyal disciple of Stephane MaIlarmé, a French symbolist poet; Description of Valéry's memoir of MaIlarmé; View that mind by itself is omnipotent; Efforts made by Andre Gide, French writer, in persuading Valéry to publish his early poems; Comments on the book titled "La Jeune Parque"; Opinion on the literary style of Valéry; View that there is perhaps a little of snobbery, of pose, in Valéry's constant deprecation of literature.

Discusses poetry. Attempt to discriminate between poetry of the will and the poetry of genuine imagination; Theory of I. A. Richards on the relationship between poetry and beliefs about the world; Analysis of romantic irony; Aspects of the poetry of the will.

Profiles the literary figure Edwin Muir. Background and career highlights; Themes of several of his poems; Contributions to theory, fiction and verse; Analysis of political and social concerns in his autobiography; Information on publishing of more than 20 books; Focus on his two books and collected poems and his autobiography; Information about him and his childhood; Report on his first poem at the age of 35; Focus on some of his quotes on new born lambs; Focus on one of his poem.

Presents information on life and works of Italian poet Eugenio Montale. Information on the family and career background; Discussion of several books of poetry written by Montale; Description of the poet; Reference to the book "Le Occasioni"; Opinion of Montale on modern French poet Rene Char; Statement that the fascists perceived in him their implacable enemy; View that the radical sense of Montale's poetry, addressed to his comic-tragic contemporaries; Report that he has never cared much to argue the charges against him.

Presents information on the works of new literary critics. Contributions of the new criticism, as represented by John Crowe Ransom; Notions held by new critics about the workings of language in common with the structuralists; Comparison between new criticism and structuralism; Traditional sense of poems of new critics; Criticism of books "The World's Body" and "The Forlorn Demon."

Explores the literary approaches of several poets in the U.S. Styles of Muriel Rukeyser in the poem "Breaking Open"; Themes of Ishmael Reed's "Chattanooga"; Motives in the poem "Departures," by Donald Justice; Argument that house of poetry in the U.S. is like a high-rise condominium, crowded, diverse, its inhabitants with little in common and little contact.

Focuses on the life and works of poet and Nobel Prize winner, Joseph Brodsky. Circulation of his poems in handwritten typed and oral form; Sentence given to Brodsky for parasitism; Accounts on the Nobel Prize award given to Brodsky; Achievements and contributions to literature and poetry; Life story and influences.

Presents information on poetry of last ten years. Inspiration by Spanish civil war for writing tragic grandeur; Edith Sitwell inspired, by the air raids, to a fierce compassion for the woes of humanity; Information that the large output of the Soviet Union poetry during the recent war shows that such a doctrine, officially sponsored and enforced by ingenious sanctions, may produce work of considerable interest; Suggestion for the poets to give their best; Deviation of modernist poetry from the ordinary man; "Romencero Gitano" a flawless work of art by Federico Garcia Lorca.

Focuses on American poet Robert Frost. Opposition of Frost to innovations in art, ethics, science, industry or polities; Declamation of Frost against Russians of all categories including the pessimistic Russians, the revolutionary Russians, the collectivistic Russians, and the five-year-planning Russians; Display of the sense of measure and decorum in his poems that puts him in the neo-classical tradition; Discussion of the praise heaped on Frost in recent years.

Presents information on poet Hart Crane. Report that Crane used to charm his inspiration out of its hiding place by drinking and laughing and playing the phonograph; Revision of poem to clarify its images, correcting its meter and searching through dictionaries and thesauruses for exactly the right word; Discussion of the general purposes that guided Crane in his patient revisions; Statement that Crane's purpose was closer to the deliberate hallucination of the senses.

Focuses on developments in popular songs and ballad recordings. Characteristics of ballads popular in the present era; Songs included in the "Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boy" compiled by Professor Rickaby; Criticism of the treatment of popular songs by folklore scholars; Composers featured in the collection "Blues: An Anthology".

Focuses on teachings to write poetry. Information on the author joining University of California as an instructor of poetry; Report on the procedure of choosing students for this class; Information on the plan of the Poetry Society of America; Focus on moods to write poetry; Liberty given by the author's to his students to smoke in his room in the University; Celebration of the birthday of the English poet Walt Whitman; Opinion of the students on works of Whitman; Relationship between the author and his students; Information on some students who had their volumes published; Translation of Indian poems to English by Eda Lou Walton; Views of the author on need of open thinking in writing poetry.

Focuses on importance of poet Walt Whitman in American poetry. Admiration of Whitman by the author; Opinion of Stephen Graham, a literary critic, on Whitman; Information on writing skills of Whitman; Comparison of Whitman with poets like Michael Angelo and William Blake; Importance of poet Carl Sandburg; Report on poetic skills and style of different poets; Views of followers of Whitman on him; Comparison of Whitman to English poet John Milton; Focuses on the book "Leaves of Grass," by Whitman; Information on Peter Paul Rubens, a poet.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Comments on the commencement controversy at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, case; Admiration of the author Bernard M. Baruch on his article on the conscription of property in the war time; Remarks on the editorial on the problem of China; Criticism of writer Louis Untermeyer for traducing the poetry of James Byron Elmore; Information on a letter of L.T. Doran, a political prisoner at Leavenworth, Kansas; Comments on the Lippmann-McDougall controversy on the comparison of the Negroes and the Whites in terms of their social status; Criticism of the author of the article "Orator of the Day" that appeared in the June 27, 1923, issue of the journal; Comments on the article "Orator of the Day"; Remarks on the article "A Test of Allied Sincerity" that appeared in the June 20, 1923 issue of the journal.

This article presents the author's views on the history of literature, particularly the writings on poetry. In 1910, when the author first made poetry the most important thing in his life no idols were forced on me. English literature did not form part of the curriculum at Charterhouse. According to him the young William Butler Yeats had wit, industry, a flexible mind, a good ear, and the gift of falling romantically in love-- admirable qualities for a beginner. His less admirable qualities were greed, impatience, and a lack of proportion, or humor, for which no amount of wit can compensate. The early poems fall short of the bathetic only by their genuine feeling for Ireland and their irreproachable anvil-craft.