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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might be isolated from the stream of day by day. The second, in spite of its title is not about a person, but about a person, two people, as they represent an idea: the struggle of the imaginary and the real. This is dealt with at length by John Finch in the same magazine--his second paragraph to be exact. Finally, the third poem deals with reflections and meditations on the impossible possible, in that it imagines the existence of a perfect philosophier poet and how imperfect he would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE SHELF | 12/13/1940 | See Source »

...article is carefully organized, and even a cursory examination of the magazine should include a fairly thorough reading of his passages on Thoroughness and The Fate of Society. Baker's comments could be applied to poetry in general today. Zabel analyses well the imagery in Stevens' poetry, while Finch concludes that Stevens is a real American poet in spite of the general howl that he follows in the steps of the French. Simons is factual with a dull subject

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE SHELF | 12/13/1940 | See Source »

Critical articles in the magazine are by Associate Professor Theodore Spenser, Hi Simons, John Finch, Morton D. Zabel, Howard Baker, and Delmore Schwartz. There are also statements about the poet by Harry Levin, instructor in English, and by Associate Professor Matthiessen. A complete review of the magazine appears on the editorial page...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Works Of Wallace Stevens Feature Latest Advocate | 12/13/1940 | See Source »

...Democratic ornament of the old, plundergarten school is Senator Joseph F. (for Finch) Guffey of Pennsylvania. Joe Guffey, whose word used to be political law in Pennsylvania, by last week had reached such a pass that he was rated a considerable asset to the Republicans (including his opponent, Philadelphia's rich Jay Cooke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Also Running | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

After John Bunny died in 1915, Flora Finch disappeared. Thinner and older, she reappeared in 1922. At M. G. M., where Flora Finch was a stock player until she died, few of the stars knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood Reel | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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