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August 1940

The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.

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Kenneth Burke
Paul Claudel
E. Cummings
Walter de La Mare
Robert Francis

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, August 1940

Table of Contents

E. E. Cummings

Two Poems

Paul Claudel
- The Blessed Lady Who Listens
- Souvenir

Four Poems

Walter de La Mare
- Things
- Antiques
- Lethe
- Secret

Genevieve Taggard
- Coming and Going of Storms

When I Was Very Old

Troy Garrison

Herman Salinger
- Mississippi
C. A. Millspaugh
- The Tower of Desire
Nigel Heseltine
- Death and the Maiden
Christopher La Farge
- Portraits
Robert Francis
- Evening Ride

Four Poems

Carl H. Grabo

From "Electra Hid an Axe"

C. F. MacIntyre
- Prologue

Speaking of Iowa

James Hearst

Eugene Jolas
- French Poetry and the Revival of Mysticism

Reviews

Babette Deutsch
- The Poet's Task
Richard Eberhart
- A Mixed Bag
Harry Roskolenko
- Venus and Politics
Margaret Walker
- Proving the Rule
Elizabeth Conner Lindsay
- In Memoriam
Ruth Dart Stephan
- Swedish Festival
David Hawxhurst Wilson
- Forward from Positivism

Contributors
- - E. E. Cummings
  - Paul Claudel
  - Walter de La Mare
  - Genevieve Taggard
  - Troy Garrison
  - Herman Salinger
  - C. A. Millspaugh
- - Nigel Heseltine
  - Christopher La Farge
  - Robert Francis
  - Carl H. Grabo
  - C. F. MacIntyre
  - James Hearst
  - Eugene Jolas
- - Babette Deutsch
  - Richard Eberhart
  - Harry Roskolenko
  - Margaret Walker
  - Elizabeth Conner Lindsay
  - Ruth Dart Stephan
  - David Hawxhurst Wilson