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February 1949

The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.

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Edwin Honig
Gilbert Neiman
William Abrahams
William Bell
Witter Bynner

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, February 1949

Table of Contents

Six Poems

Barbara Howes

Two Poems

Thomas Merton
- St. Malachy
- From the Legend of St. Clement

Henri Michaux
- The Jetty
William Abrahams
- Eclogue in Central Park
Dorothy Wirtz
- Reflections in the Louvre
B. Rajan
- Statement for Adonis
John Morton Poole
- This Vegetable World
Witter Bynner
- The Titanic
Vernon Scannell
- Pain

Three Poems

E. L. Mayo

Cecil Hemley
- The Chamber of the Dead

Two Poems

Morton Seif
- Bombos
- In the Movies

Two Poems

Dorothy Lee Richardson
- Modern Grimm
- Essence

William Bell
- The Popular Novelist Speaks
Walter McElroy
- The Undersea Casino

New Section

Waldemar Hansen
- London Letter

Reviews

Frank Jones
- "Angst" in Hellas
Hayden Carruth
- MacLeish's "Actfive"
Paul Goodman
- Tall Ideas Dancing
Ray Smith
- The Rose and the Oration
Francis C. Golffing
- Two Longer Poems

Theory and Analysis

Edwin Honig
- A Glossary of the New Criticism (Continued)

Contributors
- - Barbara Howes
  - Thomas Merton
  - Henri Michaux
  - William Abrahams
  - Dorothy Wirtz
  - B. Rajan
  - John Morton Poole
  - Witter Bynner
- - Vernon Scannell
  - E. L. Mayo
  - Cecil Hemley
  - Morton Seif
  - Dorothy Lee Richardson
  - William Bell
  - Walter McElroy
  - Waldemar Hansen
- - Frank Jones
  - Hayden Carruth
  - Paul Goodman
  - Ray Smith
  - Francis C. Golffing
  - Edwin Honig