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July 1945

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

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H. Hays
Stephen Spender
William Abrahams
Winifred Cullen
Elma Dean

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, July 1945

Table of Contents

Dylan Thomas
- A Winter's Tale
Francis Coleman Rosenberger
- The Settlement of Virginia

Two Poems

Oliver Hale
- The Loss
- Portraits

Walter Hendricks
- Dead Tree
Elma Dean
- Sestina for a Certain Coast

Two Poems

William Abrahams
- A Meditation for This Time
- Rimbaud

Four Poems

Simons Roof

John Waller
- Commando

Three Poems

Winifred Cullen

Ephim G. Fogel
- Landscape with Bayonets

From "Essay on Rime"

Karl Shapiro
- Dialectic and Criticism

Ruth Lechlitner
- The Odyssey of Auden

Reviews

John Gould Fletcher
- A Gentle Satirist
H. R. Hays
- Poet of Two Wars
Lloyd Frankenberg
- More Books than Years
James E. Schevill
- Two Poets

Contributors
- - Dylan Thomas
  - Francis Coleman Rosenberger
  - Oliver Hale
  - Walter Hendricks
  - Elma Dean
  - William Abrahams
- - Simons Roof
  - John Waller
  - Winifred Cullen
  - Ephim G. Fogel
  - Karl Shapiro
  - Ruth Lechlitner
- - John Gould Fletcher
  - H. R. Hays
  - Lloyd Frankenberg
  - James E. Schevill