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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1937

January 1937

Michael Roberts
Elsa Gidlow
Morton Zabel
W. Auden
George Barker

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Poem

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Journey to Iceland

By W. H. Auden

Poem

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We Lying by Seasand

By Dylan Thomas

Poem

From the magazine:
Speech: By the Brother of Pietzruch, a Communist Polish Jew Murdered by Nazis in January, 1933

By Stephen Spender

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Table of Contents

Two Poems

W. H. Auden
- Journey to Iceland
- Poem ("O who can ever praise enough...") (The Price)
Dylan Thomas
- We Lying by Seasand
Stephen Spender
- Speech: By the Brother of Pietzruch, a Communist Polish Jew Murdered by Nazis in January, 1933

Two Poems

William Empson
- Bacchus IV

Conditions of Men

Michael Roberts
Edwin Muir
- Poem

Birds

Two Poems

Michael Roberts
- Aspects of English Poetry: 1932-1937
William Empson
- A London Letter

Reviews

W. H. Auden
- A Novelist's Poems
Cecil Day-Lewis
- Paging Mankind
William Empson
- Foundations of Despair
Michael Roberts

Correspondence

William Empson
- Correspondence

CONTRIBUTORS

W. H. Auden
Cecil Day-Lewis
William Empson
Edwin Muir
Michael Roberts
Stephen Spender
Dylan Thomas

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