Contents xix
The Pause 1442
The Ivy Crown 1442
The Sparrow 1444
MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972) 1447
Poetry 1448
In the Days of Prismatic Color 1449
An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish 1450
No Swan So Fine 1450
The Pangolin 1450
A Jelly-Fish 1453
JOHN CROWE RANSOM (1888-1974) 1453
Winter Remembered 1454
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter 1455
Blue Girls 1455
HART CRANE (1899-1932) 1456
The Bridge 1457
To Brooklyn Bridge 1457
Van Winkle 1458
The River 1460
The Tunnel 1463
A LITERATURE OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHALLENGE
EUGENE O'NEILL (1888-1953) 1467
The Hairy Ape 1469
ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962) 1496
To the Stone-Cutters 1498
Boats in a Fog 1498
Shine, Perishing Republic 1498
The Purse-Seine 1499
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950) 1500
First Fig 1501
[I Shall Go Back Again to the Bleak Shore] 1501
[What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why] 1501
[Justice Denied in Massachusetts] 1502
[This Beast That Rends Me in the Sight of All] 1503
[Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat Nor Drink] 1503
[Those Hours When Happy Hours Were My Estate] 1503
[I Will Put Chaos into Fourteen Lines] 1504
E. E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962) 1504
Thy Fingers Make Early Flowers Of 1505
When God Lets My Body Be 1506