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Cover for Poetry Magazine, September 1951

September 1951

 
  • Paul Engle
  • Theodore Roethke
  • George Barker
  • Betty Davis
  • James Merrill
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Sensibility! O La!

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To My Son

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Holy Thursday Communion

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Table of Contents

Two Poems
  • Theodore Roethke
    • Sensibility! O La!
    • O Lull Me, Lull Me
  • George Barker
    • To My Son
Two Poems
  • Betty Miller Davis
    • Holy Thursday Communion
    • Only beneath Whose Awful Hand
Five Poems
  • James Merrill
    • The Octopus
    • Fire Poem
    • Hotel de L'Univers et Portugal
    • Who Guessed Amiss the Riddle of the Sphinx
    • The Lovers
  • Melvin B. Tolson
    • E. & O. E.
Reviews
  • William Carlos Williams
    • Carl Sandburg's Complete Poems
  • Stephen Spender
    • Seriously Unserious
  • Robert W. Flint
    • An Ambitious Venture
  • Hugh Kenner
    • A Resurrected Poet: The Chisel
  • Thomas Cole
    • Bunting: Formal Aspects
CONTRIBUTORS
  • George Barker
  • Thomas Cole
  • Betty Miller Davis
  • Robert W. Flint
  • Hugh Kenner
  • James Merrill
  • Theodore Roethke
  • Stephen Spender
  • Melvin B. Tolson
  • William Carlos Williams
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