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...while it worked. Their daughter Harriet was born. They held expansive dinner parties at which intellectual nourishment was served with the same elegance that accompanied the finger bowls. Critics Edmund Wilson and Philip Rahv dined there, and so did Poets William Carlos Williams, Richard Eberhart and William Snodgrass, Lowell's most gifted student. "Lowell liked the successful poets with more than just a literary interest," recalls a friend. "They were reproductive, they had lasted the course-they were heroes of letters...
Optimism in this same vein came in a rather light-hearted tone from Robert Lowell who, while commenting on Partisan Review, said, "Anyone must be impressed by a magazine which was against Stalin in 1936 and against Time in 1956." Rahv had previously attacked Time's article on the "reconciliation of American intellectuals...
...Philip Rahv, editor of the Partisan Review and keynote speaker, termed the Little Magazine "an oasis of gratuity in a desert of utility" and pointed out that since 1912 these magazines have discovered 80 percent of all new novelists, poets, and critics...
...topic at the public session on Monday will be "What Are Little Magazines For?". Participants will include Robert Giroux, vice-president of Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy; Philip Rahv, Editor of the Partisan Review; Henry Rago poet; Robert Lowell, Editor of Poetry, and Henry A. Kissinger, Editor of Confluence...
...second conference, July 30-August 1, will deal with "The Little Magazine in America." Among the participants will be editor Phillip Rahv of the Partisan Review, novelist and critic Elizabeth Hardwick, and poet Marianne Moore...