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London Letter

by Stephen Spender

The Partisan Review, Winter 1958, pp. 110-116

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  1. [+]
    Winter 1958 Issue = 18 Articles
    1. The Renegade by Albert Camus, pp. 11-24
    2. Five Poems by Robert Lowell, pp. 25-31
    3. A Letter of Introduction to Lawrence by Diana Trilling, pp. 32-48
    4. Revolt and Praise by Claude Vigee, pp. 49-66
    5. In Apprehension How Like a God by Steven Marcus, pp. 67-84
    6. Ready to Roll by Allen Ginsberg, p. 85
    7. In the Sacred Park by Lionel Abel, pp. 86-98
    8. Two Poems by Boris Pasternak, pp. 99-100
    9. Liberalism, Conservatism, and the Babel of Tongues by Cushing Strout, pp. 101-109
    10. London Letter by Stephen Spender, pp. 110-116
    11. Paris Letter by Jean Bloch-Michel, pp. 117-121
    12. Theater Chronicle by F.W. Dupee, pp. 122-126
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      Pasternak's Message by Nicola Chiaromonte, pp. 127-134 - 1 Review
      1. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
    14. [+]
      Old Revolutionists by Alfred Kazin, pp. 135-138 - 1 Review
      1. The Memoirs of a Revolutionist by Dwight Macdonald
    15. [+]
      A Poet's Maturity by Kathleen Nott, pp. 139-144 - 1 Review
      1. On Poetry and Poets by T.S. Eliot
    16. [+]
      Criticism at Its Best by Irving Howe, pp. 145-149 - 1 Review
      1. The Rise of the Novel by Ian Watt
    17. [+]
      The Past Survived by Midge Decter, pp. 150-156 - 1 Review
      1. Leftover Life to Kill by Caitlin Thomas
    18. [+]
      Gorky and Tomlin by Sonya Rudikoff, pp. 157-159 - 2 Reviews
      1. Arshile Gorky by Ethel K. Schwabacher
      2. Bradley Walker Tomlin by John I.H. Baur
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    Spring 1958 Issue = 16 Articles
    1. The Last Mohican by Bernard Malamud, pp. 175-196
    2. I. The Folk Tradition by Stanley Edgar Hyman, pp. 197-211
    3. II. Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke by Ralph Ellison, pp. 212-222
    4. Two Pieces After Suetonious by Robert Penn Warren, pp. 223-224
    5. Poem by Delmore Schwartz, p. 225
    6. American Lights, Seen From Off Abroad by John Berryman, pp. 226-227
    7. In the Fleeting Hand of Time by Gregory Corso, pp. 228-229
    8. Coexistence: The End of Ideology by Raymond Aron, pp. 230-240
    9. Victorian Morals and the Modern Novel by John Henry Raleigh, pp. 241-264
    10. Apropos of "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Turgenev, pp. 265-272
    11. Peeweet by Eugenio Montale, p. 273
    12. Letter from Home by H.J. Kaplan, pp. 274-281
    13. Theater Chronicle by Elizabeth Hardwick, pp. 282-287
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      Film Chronicle by Robert Brustein, pp. 288-296 - 1 Review
      1. Beginning of the End (1957 Film) by Bert I. Gordon
    15. Art Chronicle by Sonya Rudikoff, pp. 297-304
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      The Know-Nothing Bohemians by Norman Podhoretz, pp. 305-319 - 1 Review
      1. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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    Summer 1958 Issue = 23 Articles
    1. Symbolism and the Novel by Ursula Brumm, pp. 329-342
    2. All Men Are by Leo E. Litwak, pp. 343-365
    3. Poems by Theodore Roethke, p. 366
    4. Lamentation of a Broken Silhouette; Beggar at the Villa d'Este by P.J. Kavanagh, pp. 367-368
    5. The Ice House in Summer by Howard Nemerov, p. 369
    6. Bacchanal by Katherine Hoskins, p. 370
    7. A Survival; The Perfume by James Merrill, p. 371
    8. The Doppelganger by Robert Pack, p. 372
    9. Poem by Delmore Schwartz, p. 373
    10. Thought to Catullus; Old Man by Lyman Andrews, p. 373
    11. Ode to Joy by Frank O'Hara, pp. 374-375
    12. Notes of a Scale; The Absence by Denise Levertov, pp. 376-377
    13. Motet by Eugenio Montale, p. 378
    14. Inscribed on a Gravestone, Perhaps; Man of My Time by Salvatore Quasimodo, p. 379
    15. The Paradox of an American 'Identity' by John Kinnaird, pp. 380-405
    16. The Levers by Alexander Yashin, pp. 406-420
    17. The Politics of 1970 by G.L. Arnold, pp. 421-434
    18. Report from the Academy by Walter Stone, pp. 435-442
    19. An American Odyssey by Hans Meyerhoff, pp. 443-453
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      The Muse As House Guest by F.W. Dupee, pp. 454-460 - 8 Reviews
      1. New Poems by American Poets, No 2 by Rolfe Humphries
      2. The New Poets of England and America by Donald Hall, Robert Pack, and Louis Simpson
      3. Poems, 1947-1957 by William Jay Smith
      4. An Apology Both Ways by Richard Aldridge
      5. Poets of Today IV by John Hall Wheelock
      6. No Light Evaded by Lisa Grenelle
      7. Berg, Goodman, Mezey
      8. The True and False Unicorn by James Broughton
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      Bad by North and South by Lionel Abel, pp. 461-466 - 2 Reviews
      1. The Antiphon by Djuna Barnes
      2. J.B. A Play in Verse by Archibald MacLeish
    22. The Avant-Garde in French Fiction by Jean Bloch-Michel, pp. 467-471
    23. Correspondence, pp. 472-479
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    Fall 1958 Issue = 14 Articles
    1. The Crisis in Education by Hannah Arendt, pp. 493-513
    2. Four Poems by W.S. Merwin, pp. 514-518
    3. Advertisements for Myself on the Way Out by Norman Mailer, pp. 519-540
    4. Boris Pasternak by Renato Poggioli, pp. 541-554
    5. The Wandering Jew As Thinker and Revolutionary by Isaac Deutscher, pp. 555-567
    6. Roadside Arcadia by Harold Rosenberg, pp. 568-575
    7. The New Nihilism and the Novel by Norman Podhoretz, pp. 576-590
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      Three Obsessed Critics by Steven Marcus, pp. 591-602 - 3 Reviews
      1. Gnomon by Hugh Kenner
      2. American Moderns by Maxwell Geismar
      3. The Power of Blackness by Harry Levin
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      Poetry Chronicle by Alfred Alvarez, pp. 603-609 - 5 Reviews
      1. Fighting Terms by Thom Gunn
      2. The Less Deceived by Philip Larkin
      3. A Crackling of Thorns by John Hollander
      4. Overland to the Islands by Denise Levertov
      5. Seeing is Believing by Charles Tomlinson
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      "To Think What We Are Doing" by William Barrett, pp. 610-612 - 1 Review
      1. The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
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      "Land of Plenty" by C.A.R. Crosland, pp. 613-621 - 1 Review
      1. The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
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      Conservatism for the Salon by Richard Wollheim, pp. 622-631 - 1 Review
      1. Sovereignty: An Inquiry Into the Political Good by Bertrand de Jouvenel
    13. On Existentialism by George Santayana, pp. 632-637
    14. Index to Volume XXV, p. 638
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