May 1955
The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.
                                                                    This issue is sold out.
                                                            
                        - Allen Tate
 - Louise Bogan
 - Oliver Bernard
 - William Bronk
 - Arthur Carson
 
                            Table of Contents
                            Three Poems
                        
                                        
                
                            Five Poems
                        
                                        
                
                            Four Poems
                        
                                        - 
                                            Oliver Bernard
 
                            Two Poems
                        
                                        - 
                                            Donald Jenkins
 
- 
                                            Philip Levine
 - 
                                            Jean Gemmell
 - 
                                            Norman MacCaig
 - 
                                            John Tagliabue
 - 
                                            Judson Jerome
 - 
                                            William Bronk
 - 
                                            Allen Mandelbaum
 - 
                                            Robert A. Carter
 - 
                                            Edwin Fussell
 - 
                                            Arthur Carson
 
                            Two Poems
                        
                                        - 
                                            Tom Scott
 
- 
                                            William Carlos Williams
 - 
                                            Wallace Fowlie
 - 
                                            Hugh Kenner
 - 
                                            Elliott Coleman
 
                            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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                            Contributors
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- John Ciardi
 - Kenneth Patchen
 - Oliver Bernard
 - Donald Jenkins
 - Philip Levine
 - Jean Gemmell
 - Norman MacCaig
 
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- John Tagliabue
 - Judson Jerome
 - William Bronk
 - Allen Mandelbaum
 - Robert A. Carter
 - Edwin Fussell
 - Arthur Carson
 
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- Tom Scott
 - William Carlos Williams
 - Wallace Fowlie
 - Hugh Kenner
 - Elliott Coleman
 - Nicholas Joost
 
 
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