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December 1948

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

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Waldemar Hansen
William O'Connor
Karl Shapiro
Hubert Creekmore
Henry Fisher

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, December 1948

Table of Contents

Four Poems

Richard Wilbur

Two Poems

Hubert Creekmore
- An Old Story of How
- Agony Column

Phyllis Haring
- Here Comes a Candle to Light Me to Bed

Four Poems

Nicholas Moore

Henry G. Fisher
- The Closet-Drinker

Three Poems

May Miller

Two Poems

David Wagoner
- Beginning
- Marsh Leaf

Charlotte Miles
- The Hill of the Hawks
John Robert Quinn
- White Goose in Snow

Three Poems

Elder James Olson

Comment

Hayden Carruth
- Out of the Woods

William Elton
- A Glossary of the New Criticism
Israel Newman
- The Physiology of Consciousness and Its Relation to Poetry (Continued)

Reviews

Paul Goodman
- The World as a Spider-Web
Robert Gorham Davis
- Eucharist and Roasting Pheasant
Richard Eberhart
- Art and Zeitgeist
Marya Zaturenska
- Tradition Isn't Convention

Contributors
- - Richard Wilbur
  - Hubert Creekmore
  - Phyllis Haring
  - Nicholas Moore
  - Henry G. Fisher
  - May Miller
- - David Wagoner
  - Charlotte Miles
  - John Robert Quinn
  - Elder James Olson
  - Hayden Carruth
  - William Elton
- - Israel Newman
  - Paul Goodman
  - Robert Gorham Davis
  - Richard Eberhart
  - Marya Zaturenska