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June 1948

Charles Abbott
Kenneth Alling
Ronald Bottrall
Richard Gillman
John Howard

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Poem

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Variations: The Air Is Sweetest That a Thistle Guards

Poem

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Air

Article

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Some Notes Towards an Autobiography: The Childish Background (I)

June 1, 1948

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Table of Contents

Eight Poems

James Merrill

Five Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Two Poems

Three Poems

Howard Moss

Modern Instances

Charles David Abbott
- Some Notes Towards an Autobiography: The Childish Background (I)

Reviews

Richard M. Weaver
- Etiology of the Image
Macha Rosenthal
- Self-Portrait, with Emblems of the Times
William Elton
- Eliot-cum-BBC
Harry Duncan
- Melville, Definitive

CONTRIBUTORS

Charles David Abbott
Harry Duncan
William Elton
James Merrill
Howard Moss
Macha Rosenthal
Richard M. Weaver

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