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The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

Contents

ARTICLES

Emily: Hazards, Billowbees and Rewards

The Secret Agent: Conrad's "Perfect Detonator"

Romance and Moral Certainty: The Espionage Fiction of John Buchan

Herndon 's Lincoln and Theodore

Dreiser's An American Tragedy

The Mad Scientist

Liberty: The Indian Contribution to the American Revolution

POEMS

A Death in the Family

Good Friday at the Laundromat

You Remember What It's Like There

Suit of Lights

Out of This

Easter

Two Poems from the Greek Anthology

With the Bluest Eyes

Advice to the Cowboys

The Seamstress

The Queen of the Cowboys Kept Her Babies

Abstract

in this issue. . .

STEPHEN E. MEATS, who joins the editorial board, received his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina and chairs the Department of English at Pittsburg State University. He has published widely on American literature.

MICHAEL CONNAUGHTON, who will assume responsibility for our book reviews, received his Ph.D. from Indiana University and teaches English at Pittsburg State University. He has published articles on English and American fiction.

JOHN CODY, who demonstrates the hazards and rewards of close reading, received his M.D. from the University of Arkansas and served his residency in psychiatry at the Menninger School of Psychiatry. He is director of the High Plains Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center in Hays, Kansas. His numerous publications include a book on Emily Dickinson and are divided between psychology and literary criticism.

ROBERT SCHULTZ, who examines Conrad's Secret Agent, received his Ph.D. from Cornell, where he teaches English and serves as poetry editor of Epoch. His poems have been anthologized, and he has published a collection, Vein Along the Fault.

JEANNE F. BEDELL, who finds moralistic fairy tales underlying Buchan' s spy stories, received her Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and teaches English at the University of Missouri at Rolla. She has published a number of articles on fiction.

EUGENE L. HUDDLESTON, who sees similarities between Herndon' s Lincoln and Dreiser's Clyde Griffiths, received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University, where he teaches American thought and language. He has published articles on American literature.

ROBERT WEXELBLATT, who explores the difference between a mad scientist and a scientist who has gone mad, received his Ph.D. from Brandeis and teaches humanities at Boston University. His essays, fiction, and poetry have appeared in numerous periodicals.

LEROY V. EID, who investigates the Indian's role as symbol of liberty, received his Ph.D. from St. John's University and chairs the History Department at the University of Dayton. His articles have appeared in numerous journals.

RICHARD BEHM lives in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. His poems have appeared in a number of magazines, including Kansas Quarterly, Southern Poetry Review, and The Greenfield Review.

JEANNINE DOBBS has published her poems in The Massachusetts Review, Shenandoah, The Ohio Review and other journals. A selection of her work appeared in Threesome Poems from Alice James Books.

CHARLES EDWARD EATON has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Colophon of the Rover from A. S. Barnes & Co., which is reviewed in this issue. He lives in Chapel Hill.

JACK FLAVIN lives in Springfield, Massachusetts.

LYN LIFSHIN lives near Schenectady, New York.

MARK McCLOSKEY's Even Women Make Mistakes appears this spring from Perivale Press. He lives in Los Angeles.

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