PARTISAN REVIEW
A QUARTERLY OF LITERATURE AND MARXISM
Volume
VI,
No.2
Winter 1939
THIS QUARTER
3
RED, WHITE AND BLUE THANKSGIVING
13
] ohn Dos Passos
SIMPLE PROGRESSION
18
William Stephens
MYTH AND HISTORY
19
Harold Rosenberg
ACADEMIC
39
Theodore Roethke
FLORIDA
40
Elizabeth Bishop
PAGES FROM A JOURNAL
42
Andre Gide
MODERN ECLOGUE
50
Allen Tate
HEMINGWAY AND HIS CRITICS
52
Lionel Trilling
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ROSE
61
Gertrude Stein
WHAT IS LOGICAL EMPIRICISM?
64
William Gruen
ART CHRONICLE
78
George L. K. Morris
SOVIET SOCIETY AND ITS CINEMA
80
Dwight Macdonald
BLUMFELD, AN ELDERLY BACHELOR
96
Franz Kafka
PARIS LETTER
103
Sean Niall
BOOKS
Nine Poets
108
R. P. Blackmur
Americans Accursed
115
F. W. Dupee
Whitehead's Metaphysics
117
Ernest Nagel
The Beggar's Opera, after Marx
120
Cl~ment
Greenberg
Light Verse Omnibus
122
Delmore Schwartz
LETTERS
123
LEON TROTSKY TO ANDRE BRETON
126
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