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November 1939

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

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F. Weiskopf
Nelson Algren
Beth Allen
John Ciardi
Roy Fuller

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, November 1939

Table of Contents

Five Poems

Ridgeley Torrence

Dylan Thomas
- Poem
M. Jean Prussing
- September 2, 1939
Beth Allen
- Psyche
John Ciardi
- Letter for Those Who Grew up Together
B. Y. Williams
- Inscription for the West Gate
Kenneth Patchen
- So When She Lay beside Me
Dunstan Thompson
- The Artifice of Eternity
Roy Fuller
- Sonnet

Two Poems

Nelson Algren
- Home and Goodnight
- Travelog

Two Sonnets

Elizabeth Sait
- Casuistry
- Arcanum

Henry W. Rago
- Autumnal

Six Poems

Jessica Nelson North

Thomas Howells
- Poetry and the Ecclesiastical Criticism
Eunice Tietjens
- The Attitude toward the Poet

Reviews

Kerker Quinn
- German on the Left Page
Richard Eberhart
- The Notion of Hell
Francis Coleman Rosenberger
- Declaration and Discourse

Contributors
- - Ridgeley Torrence
  - Dylan Thomas
  - M. Jean Prussing
  - Beth Allen
  - John Ciardi
  - B. Y. Williams
- - Kenneth Patchen
  - Dunstan Thompson
  - Roy Fuller
  - Nelson Algren
  - Elizabeth Sait
  - Henry W. Rago
- - Jessica Nelson North
  - Thomas Howells
  - Eunice Tietjens
  - Kerker Quinn
  - Richard Eberhart
  - Francis Coleman Rosenberger