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professional humanizer of the mysteries, is done for all; whatever
was done for salvation by the saint was done for one, and was
therefore at the mercy of an organization.
Modern poetry has no frontiers which it is forbidden to cross.
It is serious about all former miracles, including that of Grace;
since Grace too is a human condition and can therefore be under–
stood and perhaps ultimately be produced at will. The direction
of poetry has been set by a faith peculiar to this age: that man will
become the center of powers which, were he to sense them within
him today, would cause him to tremble before his own greatness,
as Rimbaud trembled before the aspect of his seer.
CONTRIBUTORS
KAru.
KoRSCH, author of
Marxismus und Philosophie, Karl Marx,
and
other books, lives in Boston.... IGNAZIO SILONE is still living in Zurich,
Switzerland. His new novel,
The Seed Beneath the Snow,
has just been pub–
lished.... JuLIAN SYMONS is an English poet and critic.... VICTOR SERGE,
novelist and historian, is well-known to our readers. He is now living in
Mexico City.... HAROLD RosENBERG, who has frequently contributed to
PARTISAN REVIEW, will shortly publish a book of poems.... D. S. SAVAGE,
an old contributor to PARTISAN REVIEW, is one of the younger English
poets.... GEORGE WOODCOCK is the editor of the English magazine,
Now.
. . . ALEX CoMFORT is a young English poet....
F. 0.
MATTHIESSEN is a
member of the English Department of Harvard University. His study of
Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson and other classic American writers,
Ameri–
can Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman,
was published last year.... GERTRUDE BucKMAN is a young writer who
lives in Cambridge, Mass.... H. J. KAPLAN, a critic whose work we have
published before, lives in Chicago.... C. WRIGHT MILLS is a member of
the Department of Sociology of the University of Maryland and has con–
tributed to
Ethics, The Journal of Sociology, The New Leader,
and other
publications. ... J.
R.
STANWELL is working on a study of war economics.
He lives in New York City.... HARVEY BREIT, a young poet and critic,
whose work has appeared in PARTISAN REVIEW,
Poetry, The New Republic,
and elsewhere, lives in New York City.
