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The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

Contents

ARTICLES

The Realms of Aragon: New Directions in Medieval History

Li Hung-Chang's Mission to America, 1800

La patrie en danger: Socialism and War in 1914

Trotsky's The Revolution Betrayed: A Reappraisal

A New Look at the Italian Communist Party

Zimbabwe: Reflections on the Decolonization of Rhodesia

POETRY

The Departure for Venusberg

Concordat

Estivating in Connecticut, or Torpid on the Border

May

The Sun Is Setting

how it is in Indiana, Pa.

Rites of Passage, Rites of Spring

An Apology

Exultation

A Sort of a Sonnet for my Mother

REVIEWS

Sherwood Anderson: Dimensions of His Literary Art, ed. David D. Anderson

Gone Into If Not Explained: Essays on Poems by Robert Frost, ed. Greg Kuzma

Abstract

in this issue . . .

ROBERT I. BURNS, S. J., who writes about Aragon and the growing emphasis placed on the Mediterranean area by contemporary medieval historians, holds earned doctorates from both Fribourg and Johns Hopkins. He has recently moved to U. C. L. A. from the University of San Francisco, where his paper was delivered as an address before the faculty. He has published four major books and numerous articles.

GERALD G. EGGERT, who gives us another perspective on diplomatic contact between the U.S. and China, received his Ph. D. from the University of Michigan and teaches American history at Pennsylvania State University. He has published two books and has contributed to a number of historical journals.

RONALD N. STROMBERG, who writes about socialist attitudes toward war in 1914, received his Ph. D. from the University of Maryland and teaches European intellectual history at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee. He has published several books and numerous articles.

DAVID H. KATZ, who reappraises Trotsky's The Revolution Betrayed, received his Ph. D. from Syracuse University and teaches at Michigan State University. He is the author of several scholarly articles on modem radicalism.

LAWRENCE E. GRAY, who looks at the Italian Communist Party, received his Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins and serves both as a visiting professor at the University of Southern California Germany Graduate Program in Munich and as a research associate at the Johns Hopkins Bologna Center for European Studies.

OLIVER B. POLLAK, who reflects on the decolonization of Rhodesia, received his Ph. D. from U. C. L. A. and teaches history at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He has published a number of investigations in the field of comparative imperialism.

WALTER SHEAR, who reviews David D. Anderson's collection of criticism of Sherwood Anderson, received his Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin and teaches at KSCP. His articles on American fiction have appeared in a number of journals, including M. Q.

RANDOLPH PERAZZINI, who reviews Greg Kuzma' s collection of Frost criticism, received his Ph. D. from Cornell and teaches English at KSCP.

JACK FLAVIN works in Springfield, Massachusetts. His first book, Getting Killed, is out-of-print from Briarpatch Press.

PHILIP K. JASON teaches at Annapolis and edits for Dryad (Washington, D. C.).

ED OCHESTER operates the Spring Church Book Co. in Shelocta, Pennsylvania.

KATHARINE PRIVETT lives in Pawnee, Oklahoma.

RANDY RUSSELL's broadside, The Noisemaker, is available from the Camille Press.

ELAINE SMOKEWOOD shares rooms in an artists' colony in Pittsburg, Kansas.

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