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SOme Old Worlds, and Some New Ones, Too

The Great Fair, by Sholem Aleichem

by Harvey Swados

The Hudson Review, Autumn 1955, pp. 456-462

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    1. Cantos 86 and 87 by Ezra Pound, pp. 13-27
    2. Monstre Gai (II) by Wyndham Lewis, pp. 28-56
    3. At the San Francisco Airport by Yvor Winters, p. 57
    4. Three Poems by Theodore Roethke, pp. 58-60
    5. Taste and Bad Taste in Metaphysical Poetry by Robert Martin Adams, pp. 61-77
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    7. Three Poems by Richard Eberhart, pp. 82-85
    8. Man and Wife (story) by George Egon Hatvary, pp. 86-91
    9. Seven Poems by W.S. Merwin, pp. 92-98
    10. Peasant Poet by Robert Graves, pp. 99-104
    11. The Rake's Progress: A Note on the Libretto by George McFadden, pp. 105-112
    12. Poetry of the Sung Dynasty by Kuangchi C. Chang, pp. 113-122
    13. The History of Miss Julie by Vernon Young, pp. 123-130
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      1. Shih Ching by Ezra Pound
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      1. The Emperor's Clothes by Kathleen Nott
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      1. Selected Essays by William Carlos Williams
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      1. Out Went the Candle by Harvey Swados
      2. All Men Are Mortal by Simone de Beauvoir
      3. The Simple Truth by Elizabeth Hardwick
      4. A World of Love by Elizabeth Bowen
      5. Swami and Friends and The Bachelor of Arts by R.K. Narayan
      6. The Bachelor of Arts by R.K. Narayan
      7. A Ghost at Noon by Alberto Moravia
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      Keeping Up with Arthur by Gerald Weales, pp. 155-159 - 1 Review
      1. The Invisible Writing by Arthur Koestler
    19. A Communication by Hugh Kenner, p. 160
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    1. Krull in Defense of Love by Thomas Mann, pp. 167-182
    2. Canto 88 by Ezra Pound, pp. 183-192
    3. Canto 89 by Ezra Pound, pp. 193-204
    4. Interlude by Francis Golffing, p. 205
    5. Under der linden... by Walther von der Vogelweide, pp. 206-207
    6. Two Provencal Poems by Guillen Comte de Peitau, pp. 208-211
    7. Greek Myths and Pseudo Myths by Robert Graves, pp. 212-230
    8. General John Nicholson; Lament by Louis O. Coxe, pp. 231-232
    9. A Fable of Berries by Jean Garrigue, pp. 233-236
    10. American Vinyard by Mildred Cousens, p. 237
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      1. Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
      2. Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
      3. That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
    14. Brook Road Farm: Manomet by Joseph Langland, p. 255
    15. To His Patron; A Postcard from Venice; To the Others by David Wright, pp. 256-257
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      Reflections on Three New Plays by William Becker, pp. 258-272 - 3 Reviews
      1. The Dark Is Light Enough by Christopher Fry
      2. The Flowering Peach by Clifford Odets
      3. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
    17. Metropolitan Opera Chronicle by William Meredith, pp. 273-280
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      2. Sixteenth-Century English Poetry by Norman E. McClure
      3. Sixteenth-Century English Prose by Karl J. Holzknecht
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      1. The Private Diaries of Stendhal by Robert Sage and Stendhal
      2. His Very Self and Voice by Ernest J. Lovell, Jr. and Lord Byron
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      A Strong Sense of Self by Sonya Rudikoff, pp. 294-301 - 1 Review
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      1. Self Condemned by Wyndham Lewis
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      1. An Autobiography by Edwin Muir
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      A Gift To Be Simple by Joseph Kerman, pp. 314-316 - 1 Review
      1. Aaron Copland by Arthur Berger
    24. Communications, pp. 317-320
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      Genji and the Age of Marvels by Marvin Mudrick, pp. 327-345 - 1 Review
      1. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu and Edward G. Seidensticker
    2. Translations from Hitomaro by William Arrowsmith, pp. 346-349
    3. The Technique of Japanese Poetry by Earl Roy Miner, pp. 350-366
    4. Two Poems by Joseph Warren Beach, pp. 367-372
    5. The Summer Solstice (story) by Nick Joaquin, pp. 373-385
    6. The Campaign by Josephine Miles, pp. 386-388
    7. Reflexions (a play) by Wayne Lawson, pp. 389-404
    8. Two Poems by James Wright, pp. 405-406
    9. The Sparrow by Norman N. Holland, p. 407
    10. Poem by Donald Finkel, p. 408
    11. Aunt Jennie's by Byron Vazakas, p. 409
    12. Truth and Falsity in the Novel by Herbert Gold, pp. 410-422
    13. A Note on Literary Indebtedness by Q.D. Leavis, pp. 423-428
    14. Paris Letter by Olivier Todd, pp. 429-435
    15. The Japanese Film by Vernon Young, pp. 436-442
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      3. The Opposing Self by Lionel Trilling
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      1. The Greek Myths by Robert Graves
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      SOme Old Worlds, and Some New Ones, Too by Harvey Swados, pp. 456-462 - 7 Reviews
      1. The Great Fair by Sholem Aleichem
      2. The Seizure of Power by Czeslaw Milosz
      3. Flesh and Blood by Francois Mauriac
      4. Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
      5. The Bride of the Innisfallen, and Other Stories by Eudora Welty
      6. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
      7. Faithful are the Wounds by May Sarton
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      2. The Shakespearean Moment, and Its Place in the Poetry of the Seventeenth Century by Patrick Cruttwell
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      3. Daughters of Changing Japan by Earl Herbert Cressy
      4. Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki
      5. Homecoming by Jiro Osaragi
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    1. Epigrams from the Korean by Peter H. Lee, pp. 487-498
    2. Andromeda (a verse play) by Louis Simpson, pp. 499-518
    3. Lawrence and the Demon of the Absolute by Andre Malraux, pp. 519-532
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    5. A Korean Woman Seated by a Wall by William Meredith, p. 552
    6. Llanelly Cottage by Rolfe Humphries, p. 553
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      7. A Charmed Life by Mary McCarthy
      8. The Partisans by Peter Matthiessen
      9. Money, Money, Money by David Wagoner
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    22. Index to Volume VIII, pp. 638-640
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