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A Garland for the Muse

The Exclusions of a Rhyme, by J.V. Cunningham

by Louis Simpson

The Hudson Review, Summer 1960, pp. 284-292

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    1. Pictures from Brueghel by William Carlos Williams, pp. 11-19
    2. Four Poems by W.D. Snodgrass, pp. 20-25
    3. Four Poems by Richmond Lattimore, pp. 26-29
    4. Three Poems by Theodore Roethke, pp. 30-32
    5. The Satan of Milton by William Empson, pp. 33-59
    6. Kafka and the Primacy of the Ethical by Frederick A. Olafson, pp. 60-73
    7. Translations from the Lao by Ronald Perry, pp. 74-86
    8. Look at the Man! (story) by Anatole Broyard, pp. 87-96
    9. Ritual Nonconformity by C. Roland Wagner, pp. 97-101
    10. Arshile Gorky: The Last Move by Harold Rosenberg, pp. 102-110
    11. Music and Ballet Chronicle by B.H. Haggin, pp. 111-117
    12. Lysistrata at the Phoenix by William McNaughton, pp. 118-119
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      Four Gentleman; Two Ladies by W.D. Snodgrass, pp. 120-130 - 6 Reviews
      1. Thrones: 96-109 de Los Cantares by Ezra Pound
      2. The Self-Made Man, and Other Poems by Reed Whittemore
      3. Selected Poems by Robert Duncan
      4. Scrimshaw by Winfield Townley Scott
      5. A Water Walk by Villa D'Este by Jean Garrigue
      6. Valentines to the Wide World by Mona Van Duyn
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      To Thy High Requiem Become a Clod by Anthony Hecht, pp. 131-137 - 4 Reviews
      1. The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke
      2. New Young German Poets by Jerome Rothenberg
      3. Lyrics of the Middle Ages by Hubert Creekmore
      4. Poems 1955-1959 by Boris Pasternak
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      Appearance and Nature by Gerald Weales, pp. 138-142 - 1 Review
      1. The First Modern Comedies by Norman N. Holland
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      Reading They've Liked by Benjamin De Mott, pp. 143-148 - 2 Reviews
      1. Fiction of the Fifties by Herbert Gold
      2. Advertisements for Myself by Norman Mailer
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      With Great Passion, A Kind of Person by Richard Foster, pp. 149-154 - 1 Review
      1. Bird in the Bush by Kenneth Rexroth
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      Augustan Minor by Patrick Cruttwell, pp. 155-157 - 1 Review
      1. The Literary Works of Matthew Prior by H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, and Matthew Prior, ...
    19. Communications, pp. 158-161
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    Summer 1960 Issue = 18 Articles
    1. Master Richard (story) by John Wain, pp. 165-189
    2. The Son of Christ by Joseph Bennett, pp. 190-201
    3. Crime for Punishment: The Tenor of Part One by W.D. Snodgrass, pp. 202-253
    4. Two Poems by Vernon Watkins, p. 254
    5. Poem and Two Songs by Winthrop Palmer, p. 255
    6. Winter Wheat by John Haag, p. 256
    7. Open Road for Boys by Roger Shattuck, p. 257
    8. Two Poems by David Paul, pp. 258-259
    9. The Satirists by David Wagoner, p. 260
    10. Glossing a Portuguese Diary by Benjamin De Mott, pp. 261-269
    11. How New? How Vague? by Norman N. Holland, pp. 270-276
    12. Ballet and Music Chronicle by B.H. Haggin, pp. 277-283
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      A Garland for the Muse by Louis Simpson, pp. 284-292 - 5 Reviews
      1. The Exclusions of a Rhyme by J.V. Cunningham
      2. Cypress and Acacia by Vernon Watkins
      3. With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads by Denise Levertov
      4. Bone Thoughts by George Starbuck
      5. To Bedlam and Part Way Back by Anne Sexton
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      The Iliad Rescued: Or a Mustache for Mona Lisa by G.E. Dimock, Jr., pp. 293-297 - 1 Review
      1. The Anger of Achilles: Homer's Iliad by Robert Graves and Homer
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      Three Imaginary Autobiographies by George P. Elliott, pp. 298-302 - 3 Reviews
      1. A Kind of Fighting by Patrick Cruttwell
      2. The Experience by Cecil Hemley
      3. Free Fall by William Golding
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      The Short Stories of Herbert Gold by Robert Martin Adams, pp. 303-307 - 1 Review
      1. Love and Like by Herbert Gold
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      A Warning to Optimists by Marvin Mudrick, pp. 308-315 - 12 Reviews
      1. The Work of an Ancient Hand by Curtis Harnack
      2. False Coin by Harvey Swados
      3. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
      4. A Heritage and Its History by I. Compton-Burnett
      5. The Last Valley by J.B. Pick
      6. The Center of the Green by John Bowen
      7. Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
      8. The Feathers of Death by Simon Raven
      9. Aimez-Vous Brahms? by Francoise Sagan
      10. The Grass by Claude Simon
      11. Cafe Celeste by Francoise Mallet-Joris
      12. Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet
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      Thy Hand, Great Anarch! by B.L. Reid, pp. 316-322 - 1 Review
      1. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and Her World by John Malcolm Brinnin
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    1. Wagner: Thoughts in Season by Joseph Kerman, pp. 329-349
    2. Four Poems and Six Cantos by A.R. Ammons, pp. 350-363
    3. Encounter in the Dark (story) by Valdemar Karklins, pp. 364-384
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    5. Pope and His Church by Patrick Cruttwell, pp. 392-405
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      The Rape of the Lock by Stanley Edgar Hyman, pp. 406-412 - 1 Review
      1. The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
    7. Four Poems by Sylvia Plath, pp. 413-416
    8. Marvell and the Poetry of Judgment by A. Alvarez, pp. 417-428
    9. Two Poems by William Carlos Williams, pp. 429-430
    10. She Touches Him by George P. Elliott, p. 431
    11. The Mask by John Hall Wheelock, p. 432
    12. The Owl by Philip Booth, pp. 433-434
    13. The Death of Orpheus by Christopher Middleton, pp. 435-436
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      Pope and Swift and the English Augustans by Patrick Cruttwell, pp. 437-441 - 3 Reviews
      1. English Literature in the Early Eighteenth Century, 1700-1740 by Bonamy Dobree
      2. Alexander Pope: The Poetry of Allusion by Reuben A. Brower
      3. In Search of Swift by Denis Johnston
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      1. Cain's Book by Alexander Trocchi
      2. The Affair by C.P. Snow
      3. From the Hand of the Hunter by John Braine
      4. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
      5. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
      6. The Planetarium by Nathalie Sarraute
      7. Ceremony in Lone Tree by Wright Morris
      8. Of Streets and Stars by Alan Marcus
      9. The Big Ward by Jacoba Van Velde
      10. Homo Faber by Max Frisch
      11. The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
      12. American Son by Francis MacManus
      13. The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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      1. Justine by Lawrence Durrell
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      3. Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell
      4. Clea by Lawrence Durrell
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      1. The Devil and the Good Lord, and Two Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre
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      1. Film: An Anthology by Daniel M. Talbot
      2. The Japanese Film by Joseph L. Anderson and Donald Richie
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      2. A Winter Come, a Summer Gone by Howard Moss
      3. What a Kingdom It Was by Galway Kinnell
      4. The Middle Passage by Louis Coxe
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    1. The Wedding of Scotland and Poland by Duncan Bell, pp. 489-504
    2. Six Poems by Donald Hall, pp. 505-511
    3. Two Poems by S.S. Gardons, pp. 512-516
    4. Bridgeport Bus (story) by Maureen Howard, pp. 517-527
    5. On the Motion and the Immobility of Douve by Yves Bonnefoy, pp. 528-549
    6. The Poetry of Edwin Muir by John Holloway, pp. 550-567
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    9. Poems by Alexander Craig, pp. 572-573
    10. Poems by William Stafford, pp. 574-575
    11. Poems by Dorothy Roberts, pp. 576-577
    12. Poems by Elder Olson, p. 578
    13. Dublin Letter by Denis Donoghue, pp. 579-585
    14. Theatre Chronicle by John Simon, pp. 586-591
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      1. Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959 Film) by Alain Resnais
      2. The Savage Eye (1959 Film) by Sidney Meyers, Joseph Strick, and Ben Maddow
    16. Ballet and Music Chronicle by B.H. Haggin, pp. 598-601
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      Time Styles by Benjamin De Mott, pp. 602-611 - 8 Reviews
      1. Lament for a City by Henry Beetle Hough
      2. Dragon's Wine by Borden Deal
      3. The Journey by Jiro Osaragi
      4. The Householder by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
      5. Our Visit to Niagara by Paul Goodman
      6. Night by Francis Pollini
      7. Moderato Cantabile by Marguerite Duras
      8. Casanova's Chinese Restaurant by Anthony Powell
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      1. A Restoration Reader by James Holly Hanford
      2. Poetry and Politics Under the Stuarts by C.V. Wedgwood
      3. Restoration Literature by K.M.P. Burton
      4. The Poems of John Dryden by James Kinsley and John Dryden
      5. The Pilgrim's Progress by James Blanton Wharey, Roger Sharrock, and John Bunyan, ...
      6. The Poems of John Oldham by John Oldham
      7. Etherege and the Seventeenth-Century Comedy of Manners by Dale Underwood
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      1. New Poems, 1960 by Witter Bynner
      2. Collected Poems by Lawrence Durrell
      3. A Correspondence of Americans by Jack Hirschman
      4. A Little Geste, and Other Poems by Daniel Hoffman
      5. Lupercal by Ted Hughes
      6. The Woman at the Washington Zoo by Randall Jarrell
      7. The Summer Anniversaries by Donald Justice
      8. The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees by Donald Justice and Weldon Kees
      9. Songs by Christopher Logue
      10. The Trouble with Love by Eve Merriam
      11. The Wandering Jew by Robert Mezey
      12. Poems, 1930-1960 by Josephine Miles
      13. New and Selected Poems by Howard Nemerov
      14. Knowledge of the Evening by John Frederick Nims
      15. Poets of Today VII by James Dickey, Paris Leary, and Jon Swan
      16. The Screens, and Other Poems by I.A. Richards
      17. White Sun, Black Sun by Jerome Rothenberg
      18. Wilderness of Ladies by Eleanor Ross Taylor
      19. First Poems by Lewis Turco
      20. You, Emperors, and Others by Robert Penn Warren
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      1. Sean O'Casey: The Man and His Work by David Krause
      2. The Experiments of Sean O'Casey by Robert Goode Hogan
      3. The Drums of Father Ned by Sean O'Casey
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