PARTISAN REVIEW
A Quarterly of Literature and Marxism
VoLUME
VI, No.4
SuMMER,
1939
THIS QUARTER
3
Philip Rahv
POEMS
16
John Berryman
19
Randall Jarrell
20
Mary Barnard
22
Francis Fergusson
2'4
Anne Cluznning
THE SITUATION IN AMERICAN WRITING
25
26
John Dos Passos
28
Allen Tate
30
I ames T. Farrell
33
Kenneth Fearing
36
Kalikerine Anne Porter
39
Wallace Stevens
40
Gertrude Stein
41
William Carlos Williams
44
John Peale Bishop
47
Harold Rosenberg
50
Henry Miller
PALM SUNDAY
52 C.
R. Jackson
LETTER TO HITLER
68
James Laughlin
THE AMERICANISM OF VAN WYCK BROOKS
69
F. W. Dupee
LONDON LETTER
86
Desmond Hawkins
GREGORIO VALDES,
1879-1939
91
Elizabeth Bishop
NOTES ON "FINNECANS WAKE"
97
William Troy
BOOKS
Two In Our Time
Sin and Expiation
Report from the South
A Great Poem, in English
Marx and "The People"
111
Mary McCarthy
114
Cleanth Brooks
116
Dwight Macdonald
119
Delmore Schwartz
121
Harold Rosenberg
STATEMENT TO AMERICAN WRITERS
125
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