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November 1940

 
  • David Daiches
  • Kenneth Alling
  • Madeline Gleason
  • David Hamilton
  • Lee Hays
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Elegy

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("Doing anything and everything...")

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Green Key

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Table of Contents

Three Poems
  • Frederic Prokosch
    • Elegy
    • The Athlete
    • The Victims
Two Poems
  • Stephen Spender
    • ("Doing anything and everything...")
    • ("As I sit staring...")
  • John Southworth Moodey
    • Green Key
Seven Poems
  • William Carlos Williams
    • The Observer
    • From a Window
    • River Rhyme
    • The World Narrowed to a Point
    • A Fond Farewell
    • Fertile
    • The Unknown
Two Poems
  • R. H. Kuhlke
    • Fall Pause
    • Nocturne
  • Sonia Raiziss
    • Signal Hill
  • Alice Monks Mears
    • Always the Timid
  • Lee Hays
    • Deadbuggy
Two Poems
  • David Osborne Hamilton
    • Words
    • Whoever
Four Poems
  • Kenneth Slade Alling
    • Wooden Statue
    • Pumpkins
    • Clock
    • Visitor
Two Poems
  • Madeline Gleason
    • The Surviving Mirror
    • Complaint
  • Henry Treece
    • Poem
Three Poems
  • John Nerber
    • The Brook
    • A Poem ("How would this house...")
    • The Paradox
Reviews
  • David Daiches
    • The Honest Man Alone
  • William Fitzgerald
    • Twenty Years at Hard Labor
  • Leo Shapiro
    • The Meaning of Crashaw
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Kenneth Slade Alling
  • David Daiches
  • William Fitzgerald
  • Madeline Gleason
  • David Osborne Hamilton
  • Lee Hays
  • R. H. Kuhlke
  • Alice Monks Mears
  • John Southworth Moodey
  • John Nerber
  • Frederic Prokosch
  • Sonia Raiziss
  • Leo Shapiro
  • Stephen Spender
  • Henry Treece
  • William Carlos Williams
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