Various (Calas, Nicolas; Deutsch, Babette; Gregory, Horace; Jarrell, Randall; Morris, G.L.K; Serge, Victor; Trilling, Lionel; Vivas, Eliseo; White, M.G; Wolfe, Bertram D.; Woodcock, George et al.)

Partisan Review Vol. VII No. 1 (January-February 1940)

Norfolk, CT: Partisan Review, 1940. First Edition. Softcover. Presented here is the January - February 1940 issue of Partisan Review — which was originally sold for a mere ¢25, as seen on the cover. The Partisan Review started as a left-wing, small-circulation quarterly “little magazine” compiling literature, politics, and cultural commentary and was published in New York City. Launched in 1934 by the John Reed Club of New York City — an American federation focused on Marxist writers and affiliated with the Communist Party USA — Partisan Review was a prevalent part of the Communist political orbit. However, the publication was abruptly suspended in the fall of 1936 following growing discontent toward the primary editors. When the publication resumed in late 1937 additional editors and new writers interested in maintaining a critical stance on Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union were brought on. Featured on the cover of this issue are contributions from Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) an American literary critic, short story writer, essayist, and teacher; Victor Serge (b. Victor Lvovich Kibalchich, 1890-1947), a Russian writer, poet, Marxist revolutionary, and historian; Nicolas Calas (b. Nikos Kalamaris, 1907-1988), a Greek-American poet and art critic; G(eorge) L(ovett) K(ingsland) Morris (1905-1975), an American artist, writer, and editor best known for his Cubist sculptures and paintings; and M(orton) G(abriel) White (neé Weisberger, 1917-2016), an American philosopher, proponent of a doctrine he called holistic pragmatism, and a noted scholar of American intellectual history. Other noteworthy contributors include Babette Deutsch, an Imagist poet, novelist, and editor; Randall Jarrell (1914-1965), who was known as one of the most perceptive and feared critics of mid-century American poetry; Eliseo Vivas (1901-1991), a noted philosopher and literary theorist; Bertram D. Wolfe (1896-1977), an American scholar, leading communist and later on a leading anti-communist; and George Woodcock (1912-1995), a Canadian writer, anarchist thinker, philosopher, essayist, and literary critic. As we’ve only emphasized to you the contributors we found most alluring, please see photos for this issues full content listing. From the collection of Laurence Goldstein (1943-2023), poet, editor, and professor in the University of Michigan Department of English Language and Literature. Softcover: First edition & first printing though neither explicated at copyright page. Journal is in fine condition with moderate toning to edges of interior pages & front and back covers; mild creasing at lower left corner and along spine of front cover; mild bumping to top and bottom of spine; mild creasing near spine of back cover; minor brown spotting at bottom of back cover near “A New Direction’s Book”; and mild creasing at upper right corner of contents page. Fine. [Item #6819]

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