The Book of the Grotesque, by Irving Howe, THE PARTISAN REVIEW

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The Book of the Grotesque

by Irving Howe

The Partisan Review, January 1951, pp. 32-40

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    2. Fatigue of the Synapses by Arthur Koestler, pp. 16-31
    3. The Book of the Grotesque by Irving Howe, pp. 32-40
    4. Poems by Elizabeth Bishop, p. 41
    5. Three Poems by W.M. Meredith, Jr., pp. 42-44
    6. Exile by Vladimir Nabokov, pp. 45-58
    7. The Native by William Phillips, pp. 59-65
    8. The Obscurity of the Poet by Randall Jarrell, pp. 66-81
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