FEBRUARY, 1949
VOLUME XVI, NUMBER 2
CONTENTS
FRONTISPIECE, pencil drawing, Richard Pousette-Dart
THE LITERARY DICTATORSHIP OF T. S. ELIOT, Delmore Schwartz 119
THE HEART OF THE PARK, Flannery O'Connor
138
FIVE POEMS, E. E. Cummings
152
THE GRAPE CURE, James Merrill
155
POE, HAWTHORNE, MELVILLE: An Essay in Sociological Criticism,
Henry Bamford Parkes
157
OUR LAST POET, George Barbarow
166
"THE TURN OF THE SCREW": A Revaluation, Oliver Evans
175
THE LIFE OF LITERATURE (IV). Stephen Spender
188
MUSIC CHRONICLE, Harold Brown
193
REVIEWS
POET AND MYSTIFIER, William Troy
196
THE UNRECONSTRUCTED ALLEN TATE, James Burnham
198
THE COLONIAL VS. THE NATIONAL, Marius Bewley
202
THE GHETTO AND THE WORLD, Isaac Rosenfeld
206
VARIETY
GIDE'S HAMLET, Philip Roddman
213
CORRESPONDENCE
221