The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 17 No. 3

Authors

Lamar York
T. Mildred Wherritt
Eugénie Lambert Hammer
Barbara Meldrum
David E. Zehr
Arthur A. Ekirch Jr.
Tomas O'Leary
Midwest Quarterly Editors

Contents

ARTICLES

The Identity of the Anglo-Saxon Lyricist

For Better or for Worse: Marriage Proposals in Jane Austen's Novels

Affirmations in Willa Cather's A Lost Lady

Images of Women in Western American Literature

Bourgeois Politics: Hemingway's Case in For Whom the Bell Tolls

Eisenhower and Kennedy: The Rhetoric and the Reality

POETRY

Monk Dreams

In Loving Memory of Food and Drink

Loneliness of the Gladfish Pedlar

Old Father Sun

Someone's Thumbing the Door

The Wayfarer

Puberty

Lost Cat

Summer Asylum

Harboring the Despised

Lords

Prayer for a New Land

Abstract

GENE E. VOLLEN, who is the most recent addition to our Board of Editors, did his undergraduate work at Michigan State University and received his Ph. D. in musicology from North Texas State University. He is associate professor of music at KSCP.

LAMAR YORK, who investigates the authorship of the earliest English secular lyrics, teaches English at DeKalb College in Atlanta and is working on his doctorate at Emory University.

T. MILDRED WHERRITT, who writes about marriage proposals in Austen's novels, is a graduate student at Wichita State University. She has published a number of poems.

EUGÉNIE LAMBERT HAMNER, who finds affirmations in Willa Cather's A Lost Lady, received her Ph. D. from the University of North Carolina and teaches English at the University of South Alabama.

BARBARA MELDRUM, who examines the images of women in western fiction, received her Ph. D. from Claremont Graduate School and is professor of Engilsh at the University of Idaho. Her articles on American literature have appeared in several journals.

DAVID E. ZEHR, who writes about Hemingway's politics in For Whom the Bell Tolls, teaches English at California State University at Los Angeles and is completing his dissertation at Indiana University.

ARTHUR A. EKIRCH, JR., who reexamines the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, is professor of history at the State University of New York at Albany. He has published six books on American intellectual history.

TOMAS O'LEARY, whose work has appeared in these pages from time to time since October 1970, has given us a selection of poems from his new book, Fool at the Funeral (Lynx House Press, Box 300, Amherst, Mass. 01002). He lives in Cambridge and keeps away from "po-biz," which means he has never wrestled himself a grant or a residency.

Recommended Citation

York, Lamar; Wherritt, T. Mildred; Hammer, Eugénie Lambert; Meldrum, Barbara; Zehr, David E.; Ekirch, Arthur A. Jr.; O'Leary, Tomas; and Midwest Quarterly Editors (1976) "The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 17 No. 3," The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought: Vol. 17: Iss. 3, Article 1.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/mwq/vol17/iss3/1