The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought
Contents
ARTICLES
E. L. Doctorow's Welcome to Hard Times: The Western and the American Dream
The Travels of Thoreau
Quoting with an Accent: Bloomsday in Rome
Yeats on Poetry and Politics
Marcel Aymé: Neglected Novelist
Faulkner's Aristocratic Families: The Grand Design and the Plantation House
POEMS
The Friend
To My Daughter
Attic Vase: Woman and Nurse at a Child's Tomb
Ceilingfan
Everyone's Ideas
Nickie Naming
Parowan Canyon
Abandoned Cabin on the Clark Ranch
Fajada Butte
Rip-Gut
Paragonah
On Turning Up a Fossil in My Garden
Aunt Tisnelda Keeps Up with the Times
Marjorie Tetlow, M.L.S., Tries for Whitman
REVIEW
Morton Hunt; The Universe Within: A New Science Explores the Human Mind
LOOKING FORWARD
Not Being Earnest: A Lecture
Abstract
in this issue. . .
In the view of FRANK W. SHELTON, E. L. Doctorow's first novel, Welcome to Hard Times, like his later bestsellers, involves an examination of both the unreality and the persistence of the American Dream. Professor of English at Limestone College in South Carolina, Shelton has published numerous articles on modern fiction and drama.
MARCY S. POWELL recounts Thoreau's journeys and finds the denizen of Walden Pond a dedicated observer of America. A traveller of note himself, Powell was until his retirement in 1974 Chairman of the Department of French and Latin at Miami University in Ohio; he plans to complete an account of Emerson's peregrinations in the near future.
With CHERYL HERR we walk the streets of Rome and hear the voice of visitor James Joyce as he ponders life and gestates Ulysses. A Joyce scholar, Herr currently combines her duties as Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University with work on a book concerning Ulysses and Irish popular culture.
PETER COOLEY's latest book of poems, Nightseasons, appeared last summer from Carnegie-Mellon Press. He teaches at Tulane.
ALBERT GOLDBARTH is spending this year as a Guggenheim Fellow. His short collection of poems, Almanac, will be published in 1984 by The Bieler Press.
DAVID LEE's poems in this issue are from a new manuscript, Penance in Deseret. His two earlier collections, The Porcine Legacy and Driving & Drinking, are from Copper Canyon Press. His new book, Shadow Weaver, is forthcoming from Jawbone Press. He lives in Paragonah, Utah, and teaches at Southern Utah State College (Cedar City).
HAROLD WITT's collection of sonnets, The Light at Newport, is newly in print from Black Willow Press. His poems have appeared recently in Yankee, Poetry NOW, and Southwest Review. He lives in Orinda, California.
Even at the risk of self-deception, William Butler Yeats found meaning in the Kitty O'Shea affair, insists WILLIAM O'NEILL. O'Neill is Lecturer in English at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
RICHARD J. VOORHEES provides a delightful introduction to the characters inhabiting the fictional France of Marcel Ayme, a writer of great gifts too long neglected. Author of The Paradox of George Orwell and P. G. Wodehouse and of articles on other British novelists, Voorhees is Professor of English at Purdue University.
MARK ALLISTER notes the parallel Faulkner established in his later novels between the success or failure of a family dynasty and the magnificence or decay of its plantation house. Allister is a doctoral student in English at the University of Washington in Seattle.
ROBERT L. SHEVERBUSH is Chairman of the Department of Psychology and Counseling at Pittsburg State University.
ROBERT WEXELBLATT, in the elegant (what else?) guise of Oscar Wilde, delivers a. lecture on "The Importance of Being Earnest." A respected teacher of courses in the humanities at Boston University, Wexelblatt has published 'numerous poems, scholarly articles, and a recent fillip on economics in The Midwest Quarterly.
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Shelton, Frank W.; Powell, Marcy S.; Herr, Cheryl; O'Neill, William; Voorhees, Richard J.; Allister, Mark; Cooley, Peter; Goldbarth, Albert; Lee, David; Witt, Harold; Sheverbush, Robert L.; Wexelblatt, Robert; and Midwest Quarterly Editors
(1983)
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