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December 1947

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

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Stanley Hyman
William O'Connor
Bertolt Brecht
David Daiches
John Frank

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, December 1947

Table of Contents

Five Theological Cradle-Songs

Peter Viereck

David Daiches
- 1947
Vernon Watkins
- The Yew-Tree

Four Poems

Phyllis Haring

Paul Goodman
- For Janet Fairbanks
Bertolt Brecht
- The Swamp

Two Poems

Ray Smith

Two Poems

James E. Schevill
- Barber Shop
- Divorce

John Frederick Frank
- Coffee Hour

Five Poems

Henry Treece

William Elton
- A Note on Robert Lowell
Jacques Allamand
- The Geneaology of Lettrism

Reviews

Gladys Campbell
- A World Torn Loose Went by Me
Dudley Fitts
- Corydon, 1947
Harvey Curtis Webster
- Change, within and Without
Evalyn Shapiro
- From Nowhere
Northrop Frye
- The Betjeman Brand
Stanley Edgar Hyman
- Professorial Tindall Reads Moderns, Succumbs

Contributors
- - Peter Viereck
  - David Daiches
  - Vernon Watkins
  - Phyllis Haring
  - Paul Goodman
  - Bertolt Brecht
- - Ray Smith
  - James E. Schevill
  - John Frederick Frank
  - Henry Treece
  - William Elton
  - Jacques Allamand
- - Gladys Campbell
  - Dudley Fitts
  - Harvey Curtis Webster
  - Evalyn Shapiro
  - Northrop Frye
  - Stanley Edgar Hyman