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February 1955

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

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William Belvin
Gene Derwood
Richard Eberhart
Oliver Gogarty
Scott Greer

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, February 1955

Table of Contents

Four Poems of a Multimillionaire

Valery Larbaud

Peter Viereck
- Benediction

Two Poems

Scott Greer
- Human Interest Story
- Danse Macabre

Four Poems

Ernest Sandeen

T. H. Jones
- The Pride of the Morning
William Belvin
- A Blind Man's Bluff
Oliver St. John Gogarty
- The Supreme Crown
Harold Witt
- The Lately Mockingbird

Three Poems

Gene Derwood

Two Poems

Richard Eberhart
- Sunday in October
- A Young Greek, Killed in the Wars

Three Poems

Winfield Townley Scott

John Logan
- The Death of Southwell
Anne Ridler
- Leaving Ringshall: A Quodlibet

Reviews

Hayden Carruth
- Without the Inventions of Sorrow
Hugh Kenner
- Dudley Fitts' Aristophanes
Wallace Fowlie
- Severity as Humanism

Contributors
- - Valery Larbaud
  - Peter Viereck
  - Scott Greer
  - Ernest Sandeen
  - T. H. Jones
  - William Belvin
- - Oliver St. John Gogarty
  - Harold Witt
  - Gene Derwood
  - Richard Eberhart
  - Winfield Townley Scott
  - John Logan
- - Anne Ridler
  - Hayden Carruth
  - Hugh Kenner
  - Wallace Fowlie