Table of Contents
Volume 8, Number 9 · May 18, 1967
W.H. Auden, Prologue at Sixty 
(poem)
Mary McCarthy, Report from Vietnam III: Intellectuals
Edgar Z. Friedenberg, The Lower Depths
Up the Junction by Nell Dunn
Division Street: America by Studs Terkel
Noel Annan, Victoria Lives and Is in the Stacks
Coaching Days of England edited by Paul Elek, edited by Elizabeth Elek, with a Commentary by Anthony Burgess
The Victorians by Joan Evans
Victorian England: Portrait of an Age by G.M. Young
The Triumph of Time: A Study of the Victorian Concepts of Time, History, Progress, Decadence by Jerome Buckley
Evolution & Society: A Study in Victorian Social Theory by John W. Burrow
Paul Goodman, "We Won't Go"
Andrei Voznesensky, Poem with a Footnote (poem)
Anthony Quinton, Hobbes in One Piece
Hobbes's System of Ideas by J.W.N. Watkins
Hobbes's Science of Politics by M.M. Goldsmith
Hobbes Studies edited by Keith C. Brown
Ellen Moers, Shook-up Generation
Harvests of Change: American Literature 1865-1914 by Jay Martin
The Novels of Frank Norris by Donald Pizer
The American 1890s: Life and Times of a Lost Generation by Larzer Ziff
Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Donald Pizer
James Joll, No End to the Affair
France and the Dreyfus Affair by Douglas Johnson
Marius Bewley, Good Manners
The Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice edited by E.R. Dodds
High and Low by John Betjeman
Collected Poems 1930-1965 by A.D. Hope
John Gross, A Question of Upbringing
The Soldier's Art by Anthony Powell
A Meeting by the River by Christopher Isherwood
M.I. Finley, UnRoman Activities
The Mask of Jove by Stringfellow Barr
Enemies of the Roman Order by Ramsay MacMullen
Letters
Henry David Aiken, Old Enough to Vote
Peter Wirth, Research
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Research
Thomas B. Hess, Francis Haskell, Who's Eccentric?
Arthur C. Danto, Jack H. Hexter, Frustration
Tom Burns Haber, Richard Wilbur, Is It Miltonic?
Contributors
Noel Annan is the author of Leslie Stephen and Our Age, among other books. (October 1999)
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) was born in North Yorkshire, England, the son of a doctor. He studied at Oxford and published his first book, Poems, in 1930, immediately establishing himself as one of the outstanding voices of his generation. Auden emigrated to New York in 1939, where he became a US citizen and converted to Anglicanism. He wrote essays, critical studies, plays, and opera librettos for such composers as Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, and Hans Werner Henze, as well as the poems for which he is most famous.
M. I. Finley (1912-1986), the son of Nathan Finkelstein and Anna Katzellenbogen, was born in New York City. He graduated from Syracuse University at the age of fifteen and received an MA in public law from Columbia, before turning to the study of ancient history. During the Thirties Finley taught at Columbia and City College and developed an interest in the sociology of
the ancient world that was shaped in part by his association with members of the Frankfurt School who were working in exile in America. In 1952, when he was teaching at Rutgers, Finley was summoned before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and asked whether he had ever been a member of the Communist Party. He refused to answer, invoking the Fifth Amendment; by the end of the year he had been fired from the university by a unanimous vote of its trustees. Unable to find work in the US, Finley moved to England, where he taught for many years at Cambridge, helping to redirect the focus of classical education from a narrow emphasis on philology to a wider concern with culture, economics, and society. He became a British subject in 1962 and was knighted in 1979. Among Finley's best-known works are The Ancient Economy, Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology, and The World of Odysseus.
John Gross’s most recent book is A Double Thread, a memoir. He is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, which will be published in paperback in September. (May 2008)
Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) was a novelist, essayist, and critic. Her political and social commentary, literary essays, and drama criticism appeared in magazines such as Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Harper's, and The New York Review of Books, and were collected in On the Contrary (1961), Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles 1937-1962 (1963), The Writing on the Wall (1970), Ideas and the Novel (1980), and Occasional Prose (1985). Her novels include The Company She Keeps (1942), The Oasis (1949), The Groves of Academe (1952), A Charmed Life (1955), The Group (1963), Birds of America (1971), and Cannibals and Missionaries (1971). She was the author of three works of autobiography, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), How I Grew (1987), and the unfinished Intellectual Memoirs (1992), and two travel books about Italy, Venice Observed (1956) and The Stones of Florence (1959). Her essays on the Vietnam War were collected in The Seventeenth Degree (1974); her essays on Watergate were collected in The Mask of State (1974).
Anthony Quinton is the former president of Trinity College, Oxford, former chairman of the British Library, and the author of Hume. (June 2001)
