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April 1939

The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.

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Amy Bonner
David Daiches
Kenneth Fearing
H. Hays
Ellen Acton

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, April 1939

Table of Contents

Four Poems

Stephen Spender

Josephine Johnson
- On a Cartoon by Blake
Edouard Roditi
- Lament
Florence Kiper Frank
- Note for Tourists

Two Poems

David Cornel De Jong
- Easter Hymn
- Historical Note

Ellen Acton
- Bus Trip in Cornwall

Three Poems

Bertha Ten Eyck James

Two Poems

E. L. Mayo
- Beyond the Iron Gate
- The Phoenix and the Turtle

Six Poems from "Song in a Meadow"

Elizabeth Madox Roberts

Reviews

T. C. Wilson
- The Real Thing
Howard Milton Blake
- Young Longfellow, by Lawrance Thompson
Oscar Williams
- With Enclosures

Yvor Winters
- The 16th Century Lyric in England: A Critical and Historical Reinterpretation: Part III

Correspondence

Geoffrey Grigson
- Poetry Politics in London: Continued
Julian Symons
- The Other Cheek
H. B. Mallalieu
- Malice Rebuked

Contributors
- - Stephen Spender
  - Josephine Johnson
  - Edouard Roditi
  - Florence Kiper Frank
  - David Cornel De Jong
  - Ellen Acton
- - Bertha Ten Eyck James
  - E. L. Mayo
  - Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  - T. C. Wilson
  - Howard Milton Blake
  - Oscar Williams