PA RTISAN
VOLUME XIII, No. 1
GERMAN IMPRESSIONS AND
CONVERSATIONS
THE ROOT OF THE CHESTNUT TREE
WHAT IS EXISTENZ PHILOSOPHY
REFLECTIONS ON RETURNING FROM
ITALY
THE LINES
PARIS LETTER
POEMS
Four Poems
The Cricket
Miami Beach
Widow
CONNOISSEUR IN CHAOS:
WALLACE STEVENS
FILM CHRONICLE
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
BOOKS
Home Is Where One Starts From
Professional Literary Rebel
The Test of Utopia
Poetry Chronicle
A Novelist of the Absurd
VARIETY
Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
Pilgrim to Philistia
Excellency
Stalin the Infallible
A French Number
This Is Yeats Speaking
REVIEW
WINTER, 1946
5
Stephen Spender
25
j ean-Paul Sartre
34
Hannah Arendt
57
William Barrett
67
Randall jarrell
68
H. ]. Kaplan
75
Robert Lowell
80
j. V. Healy
81
jane Mayhall
82
George Anthony
83
Wylie Sypher
95
Barbara Deming
98
Frederick ]. Kiesler
105
james Burnham
108
Elizabeth Hardwick
110
Paul Hagen
113
Dudley Fitts
121
Katherine Hoskins
124
jean Cocteau
126
William Barrett
129
Niccolo Tucci
130
David j. Dallin
138
The Editors
139
Charles Olson
Editors:
WILLIAM PHILLIPS, PHILIP RAHV, DELMORE ScHWARTZ
Associate Editor:
WILLIAM BARRETT
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