The Partisan review anthology

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I. Interpretation. The D.H. Lawrence myth / William Troy -- The music of poetry / T.S. Eliot -- The new failure of nerve / Sidney Hook -- The intelligentsia / Arthur Koestler -- The temptation of (Saint) Flaubert / Paul Valery -- The gangster as tragic hero / Robert Warshow -- Reflections on Gandhi / George Orwell -- Men, women, and sex / Diana Trilling -- In the hotel de la mole / Erich Auerbach -- Many thousands gone / James Baldwin -- Art, popular art, and the illusion of the folk / André Malraux -- Conversations with Kafka / Gustav Janouch -- The myth and the powerhouse / Philip Rahv -- This age of conformity / Irving Howe -- "American-type" painting / Clement Greenberg -- America and Dylan Thomas / Elizabeth Hardwick -- Humanism in Thomas Mann / Marguerite Yourcenar -- Artistic truth and the warped vision / William Phillips -- The fate of the avant-garde / Richard Chase -- Symbolism and the novel / Ursula Brumm -- Love, love, love / Gore Vidal -- Psychoanalysis and literary culture today / Alfred Kazin -- Art books, book art, art / Harold Rosenberg -- Characters in fiction / Mary McCarthy -- On the modern element in modern literature / Lionel Trilling. II. A group of stories. America! America! / Delmore Schwartz -- The Mexican General / Saul Bellow -- The sin of Jesus / Isaac Babel -- Life and letters / Angus Wilson -- George / Isaac Rosenfeld -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- The rehearsal / Elisabeth Mann Borgese -- Everything under the sun / James Purdy. III. Selected poems. Never, never, never / Kenneth Fearing -- Lament & Triumph / George Barker -- The statue / John Berryman -- The woman that had more babies than that / Wallace Stevens -- Washington Cathedral / Karl Shapiro -- The contours of fixation / Weldon Kees -- The George Sands garden / Horace Gregory -- The lion / William Carlos Williams -- The partner / Theodore Roethke -- Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas -- Emma's story / John Thompson -- The man upstairs / Stanley Kunitz -- To a little girl, one year old, in ruined fortress / Robert Penn Warrren -- Visits to St. Elizabeth's (1950) / Elizabeth Bishop -- Ready to roll / Allen Ginsberg -- Memories of west street and Lepke / Robert Lowell -- Man and wife / Robert Lowell -- An urban convalescence / James Merrill -- Digging it out / John Hollander -- In the deep museum / Anne Sexton. IV. Variety. "The truly monstrous" : a note on Nathanael West / Daniel Aaron -- Mr. Eliot's evening service / Hans Meyerhoff -- Religion and intellectuals / Hannah Arendt, A.J. Ayer, Robert Graves, Jacques Maritain, Meyer Schapiro, Allen Tate, Paul Tillich -- Keats in his letters / W.H. Auden -- Fitzgerald and America / William Barrett -- Ezra Pound : the promise and the disaster / F.R. Leavis -- Monstrous dust / F.W. Dupee -- McCarthy and his apologists / Dwight Macdonald -- Symbolism and/or literature / Norman Podhoretz -- Sufficient unto the day / Leslie A. Fiedler -- The deeds and dreams of Yeats / F.W. Dupee -- Socialism and sociology / Philip Rieff -- Three obsessed critics / Steven Marcus -- Anglo-Saxon attitudes / Stephen Spender -- The mezzanine / Walter Stone.