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July 1948

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

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Witter Bynner
Elise Asher
Francis Barry
James Facos
Hortense Flexner

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, July 1948

Table of Contents

Hugh MacDiarmid
- My Heart Always Goes Back to the North

Two Poems

Edwin Honig
- Rustler
- As a Great Prince

Clellon Holmes
- Fear in the Afternoon
Lee St. Ledger-Roty
- From the Vegetable Kingdom
J. Radcliffe Squires
- Journey to Pompeii
Hortense Flexner
- Storm Warning
James Facos
- Shivaree
Lawrence Olson
- The Sea Fair

The Sun-God

Elise Asher
- Moment in July
- Ocean Resort

Francis Barry
- Less Feline

Two Poems

Ernest Sandeen
- Communion
- New Age

Nicholas Moore
- No, No, Go Not, Said Mr. Kyew

Two Poems

Jerome H. Weisser
- Valediction
- Sporting Print

Robert Friend
- The Irrational Source
John Theobald
- From "An Oxford Odyssey"

Opinion

David Daiches
- Hugh MacDiarmid and Scottish Poetry

Reviews

William Poster
- The Grounded Lyric
Harriet Zinnes
- Onward to Solipsism
John Theobald
- Where Is It Fled ...?
Drummond Minor
- Breeze
Anna Balakian
- Precursor
Northrop Frye
- An Important Influence

Contributors
- - Hugh MacDiarmid
  - Edwin Honig
  - Clellon Holmes
  - Lee St. Ledger-Roty
  - J. Radcliffe Squires
  - Hortense Flexner
  - James Facos
- - Lawrence Olson
  - Elise Asher
  - Francis Barry
  - Ernest Sandeen
  - Nicholas Moore
  - Jerome H. Weisser
  - Robert Friend
- - John Theobald
  - David Daiches
  - William Poster
  - Harriet Zinnes
  - Drummond Minor
  - Anna Balakian
  - Northrop Frye