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January 1949

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

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Reed Whittemore
Clellon Holmes
Hayden Carruth
Barbara Gibbs
Julian Hamilton

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, January 1949

Table of Contents

Reed Whittemore
- A Closet Drama
George Moor
- Boy
Harold Kaplan
- The Dying Acrobat

Three Poems

Arvid Shulenberger

David Sachs
- Theogony

Two Poems

Clellon Holmes
- Doctor Trustus: Man of Good Will
- Les Italiennes

Lawrence Perry Spingarn
- West
Bette Richart
- The Gift
Hayden Carruth
- Phylogenetic Meditation
Francis Stuart
- The Trees in the Square

Three Poems

Barbara Gibbs

Julian H. Hamilton
- Elvira

Modern Instances

Clellon Holmes
- The Background of "The Pisan Cantos"

Stanley Kunitz
- News of the Root
Arthur Mizener
- The Earnest Victorian
Frank Jones
- Armor Gets in Your Eyes

Theory and Analysis

William Elton
- A Glossary of the New Criticism

Contributors
- - Reed Whittemore
  - George Moor
  - Harold Kaplan
  - Arvid Shulenberger
  - David Sachs
  - Clellon Holmes
- - Lawrence Perry Spingarn
  - Bette Richart
  - Hayden Carruth
  - Francis Stuart
  - Barbara Gibbs
  - Julian H. Hamilton
- - Stanley Kunitz
  - Arthur Mizener
  - Frank Jones
  - William Elton