Auden, W. H.; Berryman, John; Bishop, Elizabeth; Crane, Hart; et al. Hine, Daryl; editor. - Poetry. Sixtieth Anniversary Issue 1912-1972: First Appearances. (Volume CXXI, Number 1). October 1972. (Cover Title).

(Chicago, IL: The Modern Poetry Association), 1972. 1972. - Octavo, softcover bound in purple & white wraps. The rear wrap is darkened around the edges and lightly foxed & soiled. Title, 58 & [4] pages. Very good.

The poetry and prose in this sixtieth anniversary issue represents the first appearance of each author in Poetry magazine during the previous sixty years. Among the contents are poems by W. H. Auden, John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, Hart Crane, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Gertrude Stein, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. Among the prose comments and criticism are Ezra Pound on Tagore's poems; "Poeta Nascitur" on the nature of poets by Ford Madox Ford, and "The Betjeman Brand" by Northrup Frye. Very good .