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Cover for Poetry Magazine, November 1940

November 1940

David Daiches
Kenneth Alling
Madeline Gleason
David Hamilton
Lee Hays

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From this Issue

Poem

From the magazine:
("Doing anything and everything...")

By Stephen Spender

Poem

From the magazine:
The Observer

By William Carlos Williams

Poem

From the magazine:
The Surviving Mirror

By Madeline Gleason

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Table of Contents

Three Poems

Two Poems

Stephen Spender
- ("Doing anything and everything...")
- ("As I sit staring...")

Seven Poems

William Carlos Williams

Two Poems

Two Poems

Four Poems

Two Poems

Madeline Gleason
- The Surviving Mirror
- Complaint
Henry Treece
- Poem

Three Poems

Reviews

David Daiches
- The Honest Man Alone
William Fitzgerald
- Twenty Years at Hard Labor
Leo Shapiro
- The Meaning of Crashaw

CONTRIBUTORS

David Daiches
William Fitzgerald
Madeline Gleason
Leo Shapiro
Stephen Spender
Henry Treece
William Carlos Williams

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