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Cover for Poetry Magazine, May 1955

May 1955

 
  • Allen Tate
  • Louise Bogan
  • Oliver Bernard
  • William Bronk
  • Arthur Carson
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Thoughts on Looking into a Thicket

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Wide, Wide in the Rose's Side

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The Toys

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Table of Contents

Three Poems
  • John Ciardi
    • Thoughts on Looking into a Thicket
    • On Looking East to the Sea with a Sunset behind Me
    • Elegy ("My father was born...")
Five Poems
  • Kenneth Patchen
    • Wide, Wide in the Rose's Side
    • The Great Birds
    • O She Is as Lovely-Often
    • First Came the Lion-Rider
    • O Now the Drenched Land Wakes
Four Poems
Two Poems
  • Philip Levine
    • The Toys
  • Norman MacCaig
    • Beach Talk
  • William Bronk
    • Midsummer
Two Poems
  • William Carlos Williams
    • Of Asphodel
  • Wallace Fowlie
    • Poetry and Prophecy
  • Hugh Kenner
    • Regional Muses
  • Elliott Coleman
    • The Image Renewed
Brief Notices
  • Nicholas Joost
    • A Restoration Reader (Ed. by James Holly Hanford)
    • The Haunted Man: A Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, by Philip Lindsay
    • The English Epic and Its Background, by E. M. W. Tillyard
    • Emily Dickinson: A Revelation, by Millicent Todd Bingham
    • Selected Works of John Dryden (Ed. by William Frost)
    • Greek Tragedy: A Literary Study, by H. D. F. Kitto
    • The Golden Echo, by David Garnett
    • Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
    • Verse and Worse, A Private Collection (Ed. by Arnold Silcock)
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