July-August 1993
Volume 19 Number 6
Caspar Hauser: First and Second Cantos
DAVID CONSTANTINE 1 17
Stalin, Beria and the Poets DONALD RAYFIELD 1 22
On Poetry and Opinion
CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON 1 31
From In a Persian Garden
FRANK KUPPNER and RICHARD LE GALLIENNE 1 34
Nicholas Tredell in conversation with
COLIN MacCABE 1 36
Englit and the Cultomats
PENNY McCARTHY 1 42
George Herbert Revisited
ANNE RIDLER 1 46
Clive Wilmer in conversation with
JOHN HEATH-STUBBS 1 51
The Shaping of Modem French Poetry: Figures of Thought
ROGER LITTLE 1 55
POETRY
Tristan Corbiere 1 30
Laurie Duggan 1 31
Roger Finch 1 41
William I. Elliott 1 42
Judy Gahagan 1 44
Simon Howard 1 45
Neil Curry 1 45
Elizabeth Smither 1 49
Peter Sansom 1 49
Mervyn Linford 1 50
Nicholas Hillyard 1 51
Edwin Mason 1 54
Brian Jones l 55
EDITORIAL 3
NEWS & NOTES 4
REWRTS Speaking of Drama, PEN
international Writers Day Nicolas Tredell 5 The past and likely future of the
'thick journal' W.L. Webb 7-
'The translator as an intermediary between two cultures'
Michael Hamburger 9
lames Kirkup and Gay Poety
Gregory Woods 11
Pikolo, Three Great Poems, and
Primo Levi's 'The Mensch'
Anthony Rudolf 12 Cavafy in Bayswater
David Arkell 13 The Radical in Canada
Roger Burford Mason 13 Good Eggs, George Moore and the
Motor Car A.V. Beedell 14
REVIEWS
Neil Powell on The New Poety 58
Matthew Francis on The New Poetry 60
Richard Francis on Weldon Kees and Dana Gioia 61
John Pilling on Samuel Beckett 62; on Frederico Garcia Lorca and
Constantine Cavafy 63; on Ivo Andrik and Marina Tsvetaeva 64; on
Anna Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva 65
Brim Jones on W.S. Graham, Charles Tomlinson and D.M. Thomas 66
T.J.G. Harris on Hamish Henderson and Vagn Holmboe 68
