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October 1940

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

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R. Blackmur
Margedant Peters
Henry Rago
W. Auden
George Barker

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, October 1940

Table of Contents

Archibald MacLeish
- Discovery of This Time

Two Poems

Reuel Denney
- The Knowers
- Days of Dictation

Six Poems

Eve Merriam

W. H. Auden
- Poem
Brewster Ghiselin
- Bath of Aphrodite
Leo B. Levy
- After Love

House

Belle Turnbull
- Walls
- Door
- Roof
- Window

George Barker
- Song for the Countess of Pemroke
Ramón López Velarde
- The Anchor
Robert David O'Brien
- Dryden's Cecilia

Two Poems

Haniel Long
- The Women of My Blood
- To a Friend Who Won Out

Tom Boggs
- Poem

Two Poems

Ruthven Todd
- Love Is No Ghost
- Tomorrow Will Come Soon

Harvey Breit
- The Hungered Circle
Ralph Gustafson
- Atlantic Crossing

Four Poems

Karl Shapiro

George H. Dillon
- Another Year

Kenneth Burke
- On Musicality in Verse: As Illustrated by Some Lines of Coleridge

H. R. Hays
- A Mexican Symbolist

Reviews

Paul Goodman
- Two Kinds of Feeling
Robert D. Harper
- Back to the Personal
Eugene Jolas
- Toward a Metaphysical Renascence?
Harry Thornton Moore
- Poetry on Records

Contributors
- - Archibald MacLeish
  - Reuel Denney
  - Eve Merriam
  - W. H. Auden
  - Brewster Ghiselin
  - Leo B. Levy
  - Belle Turnbull
  - George Barker
- - Ramón López Velarde
  - Robert David O'Brien
  - Haniel Long
  - Tom Boggs
  - Ruthven Todd
  - Harvey Breit
  - Ralph Gustafson
  - Karl Shapiro
- - George H. Dillon
  - Kenneth Burke
  - H. R. Hays
  - Paul Goodman
  - Robert D. Harper
  - Eugene Jolas
  - Harry Thornton Moore