Summer 1979
Table of Contents
Essays
At the Crossroads of Time: Types of Simultaneity in Literature and Film
Keaton Through the Looking-Glass
Profaned and Stenciled Texts; In Search of Pynchon’s “V”
Sparrows and Scholars: Literary Criticism and the Sanctification of Data
The “Found” in Contemporary Poetry
The View from Space: Notes on Space Exploration and Recent Writing
Fiction
I Dated Jane Austen
Sleepy Time Gal
The Four Seasons
Poetry
Catfish
For Some of Us
Graffiti for a Particle Accelerator
Mark Twain and the Anxiety of Entertainment
Morning-Gift, Morning-Glory, Morning Gown & Sandpaper, Sandpiper, Sandpit
Nobody’s Perfect & The Light in Our Bodies
Orchestra
Passages
Prayer Service in an English Church
The Autobiography & My Children’s Book
The Child’s Dream
The Concert for Bangladesh
The Corner
Toung Women at Chartres
Water on the Highway
Woman: A Mirror
Art
Portraits of Modern Masters
Reviews
Charles Olsen and His Forces (on A Guide to the Maximus Poems of Charles Olson by George F. Butterick; Charles Olson: Call Him Ishmael by Paul Christensen; Olson’s Push: Origin, Black Mountain and Recent American Poetry by Sherman Paul; &Charles Olson: The Scholar’s Art by Robert von Hallberg)
Defending the Humanities (on Literature Against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society by Gerald Graff)
on America’s Great Illustrators by Susan E. Meyer
on F. R. Leavis: Judgment and the Discipline of Thought by Robert Boyers
on Life Among Others by Daniel Halpern; The Late Hour by Mark Strand; Kicking the Leaves by Donald Hall; Tread the Dark by David Ignatow; & The Year of Our Birth by Sandra McPherson
on Speaking of Stendhal by Storm Jameson
Refelections on John Fowles’s “The Magus” and the Construction of Reality (on The Magus: A Revised Version by John Fowles)
Shields, Ruins, and Togus: Old Literary History (on Dr. Woodward’s Shield: History, Science and Satire in Augustan England by Joseph M. Levine; Ruins and Empire: The Evolution of a Theme in Augustan and Romantic Literature by Laurence Goldstein; & Augustus Caesar in “augustan” England: The Decline of a Classical Norm by Howard D. Weinbrot)
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