Summer 1978
Table of Contents
Essays
“Moonlight dries no mittens”: Carl Sandburg Reconsidered
“Twin Obsessions”: The Poetry and Paintings of E. E. Cummings
Contemporary Poetry and the Metaphors for the Poem
Grecian Thoughts in the Home Fields: Reflections on Southern Poetry
Poem, Dream, and the Consuming of Culture
Robinson Jeffers Redivivus
Shamanism Toward Confessionalism: James Dickey, Poet
The Ballad and the Brain
Fiction
College Life
Family Album
Singing Birds, Noiseless Trees
Poetry
An Ode
Any Night & Last Song of the Angel of Bad Luck
Assertion
Barn Fire
Blossom
Carrier
Eclipse
Evening Hour
Great Expectations: A Short Story
He Goes Around His World
Mimosa
Moon on a Pasture near Ortonville & Women We Never See Again
Oblique Man, Essential Text
Old Folks Home
Prologue to a Longer Story
The Wheel
Reviews
on Blake Books: Annotated Catalogues of William Blake’s Writings by G. E. Bentley, Jr.; Blake As An Artist by David Bindman; The Complete Graphic Works of William Blake by David Bindman; William Blake by Martin Butlin; William Blake: A New Kind of Man by Michael Davis; William Blake: The Seer and His Visions by Milton Klonsky; Blake’s Composite Art: A Study of the Illustrated Poetry by W. J. T. Mitchell; & William Blake by Morton D. Paley
on The Adventures of Conan Doyle: The Life of the Creator of Sherlock Holmes by Charles Higham; Bloodhounds of Heaven: The Detective in English Fiction from Godwin to Doyle by Ian Ousby; & The Dangerous Edge by Gavin Lanbert
on A Voice in the Mountain by Peter Davison; Cicada by John Haines; & China Trace by Charles Wright
on Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary by K. M. Elisabeth Murray
on Dylan Thomas by Paul Ferris
on John Gould Fletcher and Imagism by Edmund S. de Chasca
on The Collected Poems of Stevie Smith; & The Hugh MacDiarmid Anthology: Poems in Scots and English by Michael Grieve, Alexander Scott
on Toward a Patriarchal Republic: The Secession of Georgia by Michael P. Johnson
on Unassigned Frequencies: American Poetry in Review, 1964-77 by Laurence Lieberman; Escape from the Self: A Study in Contemporary American Poetry and Poetics by Karl Malkoff; & Modern American Lyric: Lowell, Berryman, Creeley, and Plath by Arthur Oberg
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