PART ONE： Beyond Frontiers 33
The Poet Rainer Maria Rilke 33
Seven-Year-Old Poet Arthur Rimbaud 33
The Aviator Alexander Blok 35
Against the Hope of Reconstruction F． T． Marinetti 37
The Cemetery by the Sea Paul Valery 38
The New Attorney Franz Ka f ka 42
Rhapsody of the Deaf Man Tristan Corbiere 43
Cities Arthur Rimbaud 45
The Shako after Rainer Maria Rilke： Robert Lowell 47
Zone Guillaume Apollinaire 47
At the Top of My Voice Vladimir Mayakovsky 52
Twilight of the Outward Life Hugo von Hofmannsthal 58
Somnambulistic Ballad Federico Garcia Lorca 58
Dora Markus Eugenio Montale 61
Five Grand Odes Paul Claudel 62
Death Alone Pablo Neruda 64
Three Haitian Creole Moods Emile Roumere 66
Gulf of Mexico Al f onso Reyes 67
Thus Was the City Founded St-J Perse 70
Dirge for the Barrel-Organ of the New Barbarism Louis Aragon 72
Vorobyev Hills Boris Pasternak 74
Impulses Henri Michaux 75
Argonautica George Se f eris 76
Late Rising Jacques Prevert 77
To Posterity Bertolt Brecht 79
PART TWO： Forerunners 83
Spring Gerard Manley Hopkins 83
Nineteen Hundred andNineteen W． B． Yeats 83
Exposure Wil f red Owen 87
Under the Oak D． H． Lawrence 88
Miro＇s Spain Ernest Hemingway 89
The Eagle Soars in theSummit of Heaven T． S． Eliot 91
Street Song Edith Sitwell 92
Anna Livia Plurabelle James Joyce 93
O Carib Isle！ Hart Crane 93
Tristan Da Cunha Roy Campbell 95
The Sisters William Faulkner 97
Bearded Oaks Robert Penn． Warren 99
One Step Backward Taken Robert Frost 101
Haze Carl Sandburg 101
Veteran Sirens Edwin ArlingtonRobinson 103
How Many Acts Are Therein It Gertrude Stein 104
Denouement Kenneth Fearing 106
Priam Dudley Fitts 110
Five Bells Kenneth Slessor 112
Sir Walter Raleigh William CarlosWilliams 115
Study in a Late Subway Muriel Rukeyser 118
Rejoice in the Abyss Stephen Spender 119
A Lullaby James Agee 120
In Memory of W． B． Yeats W． H． Auden 121
To Juan at the Winter Solstice Robert Graves 124
PART THREE： The Age of Satire 127
Mr． Apollinax T． S． Eliot 127
Moeurs Contemporaines Ezra Pound 128
Oil Painting of the Artist as the Artist Archibald MacLeish 131
God＇s Speech to Job Robert Frost 132
Part of a Novel， Part of a Poem， Part of a Play Marianne Moore 133
Memorabilia e． e． cummings 137
Good-bye Now， Plato ＆Hegel Louis MacNeice 138
The Pleasures of Merely Circulating Wallace Stevens 140
There Is No Opera Like “Lohengrin” John Wheelwright 141
Portraits Robert Fitzgerald 142
The Ballad of the Children of the Czar Delmore Schwartz 144
Chard Whitlow Henry Reed 147
Views of the Favorite Colleges John Malcolm Brinnin 148
Mr． Whittier Winfield TownleyScott 149
Busy Day James Laughlin 151
Herod W． H． Auden 152
Blackberry Winter John Crowe Ransom 157
The Lute in the Attic Kenneth Patchen 158
A Letter to William Carlos Williams Kenneth Rexroth 159
A Ballad of the Good Lord Nelson Lawrence Durrell 161
Australia A． D． Hope 163
To a Sinister Potato Peter Viereck 164
January 1940 Roy Fuller 165
Imprecation for an Aesthetic Society， etc．Rosalie Moore 166
The Progress of Faust Karl Shapiro 167
PART FOUR： The ＇Forties 169
In My Craft or Sullen Art Dylan Thomas 169
Spring and All W． C． Williams 169
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men James Agee 172
Vestiges Dennis Devlin 175
Lyell＇s Hypothesis Again Kenneth Rexroth 176
Skyscraper Byron Vazakas 177
Where the Rainbow Ends Robert Lowell 178
Nature Poem Ruth Herschberger 179
A Walk on Snow Peter Viereck 180
Love Song Adam Drinan 181
Storm Norman Mailer 183
Folk-Tune Richard Wilbur 185
Roosters Elizabeth Bishop 186
April Rise Laurie Lee 190
Three American Women and a German Bayonet Winfield TownleyScott 191
Ecce Homo David Gascoyne 192
Eadem Mutato Resurgo Selden Rodman 194
Vaticide Myron O＇Higgins 194
Exploration by Air Fleming MacLiesh 195
S．S． City o f Benares G． S． Fraser 199
The Raid William Everson 200
The Drowned Wife Robert Horan 201
Remember Me Keith Douglas 201
Brotherhood of Men Richard Eberhart 203
And Death Shall Have No Dominion Dylan Thomas 204