The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 26 No. 4

Authors

• Jonathan Rose
• Susan L. Carlson
• Gregory Waters
• Ellen Williamson Kanervo
• Richard M. Gardner
• Jack D'Amico
• Linda Walvoord Girard
• Michael Burns
• George Gott
• Art Homer
• Ben Howard
• Ernest Kroll
• Lolette Kuby
• Laurie Sheck
• Philip Raisor
• Gary A. Schrag
• Midwest Quarterly Editors

Contents

ARTICLES

The Children's Garden of George Orwell

Two Genres and Their Women: The Problem Play and the Comedy of Manners in the Edwardian Theatre

A Basis for Criticism: The Literary Essays of Conrad Aiken

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Journalist as Novelist, Novelist as Journalist

Toward a Definition of Stereotypes

The Garden of King Utopus

POEMS

The Damned

Nebuchadnezzar

At the Loom

The Pied Piper

The Way Where Light Dwells

A Poem with a Line of French

Hung-Over with Snow Clouds

Roads for High Places

Last Things

Spanish Main

The Wrong Side of the Bed

Persephone to Demeter

New England Graveyard

Hoosier Schoolmaster

REVIEW

Jeffrie G. Murphy; Evolution, Morality, and the Meaning of Life

INDEX

Volume XXVI

The Midwest Quarterly is happy to announce that it is opening its poetry section once more to submissions from all serious writers of poetry. The new poetry editor is particularly interested in well-made, though not necessarily traditional, poems that see nature and the self in bold combinations, from writers striving to find expression for the ineffable, the inexplicable, the irrational, the unknown either in themselves or in the world around them.

The poetry editor is particularly interested right now in poems dealing with Halley’s comet or other astronomical phenomena.

Abstract

in this issue. . .

The man who created the child-spies of 1984, JONATHAN ROSE makes clear in his examination of George Orwell, was a writer filled with nostalgia for childhood. Assistant Professor of History at Drew University in New Jersey, Rose has recently completed a book-length manuscript on the intellectual history of Edwardian Britain and hopes to launch a scholarly journal devoted to the life and works of George Orwell.

Though current society has distanced them from us, the women of Edwardian problem plays, argues SUSAN L. CARLSON, do have something to tell us about our own social problems and revolutions. Assistant Professor of English at Iowa State University, and author of numerous articles on women and literature, Carlson has recently published a book on women in the Edwardian comedy of manners.

Conrad Aiken's strengths as poet and fiction writer, GREGORY WATERS demonstrates, were matched by his perception as a literary critic. Author of essays in journals devoted to the study of prose and poetry, Waters is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of English at Montclair State College in New Jersey.

LINDA WALVOORD GIRARD writes fiction and children's books as well as poetry. Recent poetry has appeared in Ascent, Cottonwood Review, Nimrod, and Mississippi Valley Review. Her biography of Edmond Halley, written for children, will be published in September by Albert Whitman. Girard has a background in college teaching and is currently pursuing doctoral studies in Renaissance poetry at the University of Chicago. She has received an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for Poetry for 1985. She lives in Barrington, Illinois.

MICHAEL BURNS has published poetry in a number of magazines, including New Orleans Review, Quarterly West, Poetry Now, and Kansas Quarterly. He has also appeared previously in Midwest Quarterly. A chapbook of his poems, When All Else Failed, was published by Timberline in 1984. Burns teaches English at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield.

GEORGE GOTT has published poetry in numerous magazines and anthologies. Two of his chapbooks, Birds and Horses and Watching the River, were published in 1984, and a book of poetry is soon to be published by Linwood. Gott teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Superior and reports that his pursuit of poetry has given him some strength and even some joy.

ART HOMER's recent collection of poems, What We Did After Rain, is available from Abbatoir Editions. He chairs the Writers' Workshop at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

BEN HOWARD had a poem, "Northern Interiors," in the October 1984 issue of Midwest Quarterly. It is the title poem of his planned second collection of poems. His first collection, Father of Waters, was published in 1979. Howard teaches at Alfred University in New York.

ERNEST KROLL, a former newspaperman and U.S. government official, has published five volumes of poetry. A portion of one of his poems is cut in the granite of the new Western Plaza of the nation's capital building. His new book, Winding the Western Arc, will soon be forthcoming from Moon Pony Press.

LOLETTE KUBY is a free-lance writer whose poems and articles have appeared in a number of magazines and newspapers, including Northeast, Minnesota Review, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. She has published a full-length critical study of Philip Larkin's poetry, and she edited Forum: Ten Poets of the Western Reserve (1978). A collection of her own poems, In Enormous Water, appeared in 1981. She has a doctorate in English from Case Western Reserve University, but currently reports she is a student of the new metaphysics and a member of the nuclear disarmament movement.

LAURIE SHECK has new work appearing in Poetry, The New Yorker, The Nation, and other magazines. She is also a regular contributor to Poetry Northwest. Sheck teaches at Rutgers University.

PHILIP RAISOR teaches English at Old Dominion University in Virginia. His poems have appeared in Southern Review, Poetry Northwest, Kansas Quarterly, Tar River Poetry, Literary Review, Southern Poetry Review, and elsewhere. He was formerly managing editor of New Virginia Review.

Magical realism, ELLEN WILLIAMSON KANERVO suggests, characterizes both the fiction and the factual reporting of novelist and journalist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Kanervo is Associate Professor of Journalism and English at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee.

"A lone figure rode his palomino down the dusty trail and into the sunset. . . ." Stereotypes, their function and form in popular literature, provide the topic of RICHARD M. GARDNER's interesting essay. Gardner teaches in the English Department of the University of Wisconsin-Stout.

In the pattern of life, argues JACK D'AMICO, the time spent at leisure in the active pursuit of being human helps give the measure of man and bring about social coherence. Now at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, D' Amico has taught in Lebanon, Morocco, and China, and has published numerous essays on writers of the Italian and English Renaissance in addition to a book, Knowledge and Power in the Renaissance.

GARY A. SCHRAG has degrees in history (Kansas State University) and in divinity (Union Theological Seminary, New York City). His concern with the issue of evolution, morality, and the meaning of life, are both professional and personal. He is Pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Pittsburg, Kansas.

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Rose, Jonathan; Carlson, Susan L.; Waters, Gregory; Kanervo, Ellen Williamson; Gardner, Richard M.; D'Amico, Jack; Girard, Linda Walvoord; Burns, Michael; Gott, George; Homer, Art; Howard, Ben; Kroll, Ernest; Kuby, Lolette; Sheck, Laurie; Raisor, Philip; Schrag, Gary A.; and Midwest Quarterly Editors (1985) "The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 26 No. 4," The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought: Vol. 26: Iss. 4, Article 1.
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