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INDEX TO VOLUME LXIl AUTHORS Allen, Brooke: Shrewd Old Abe (criti- Famous Seamus (book review) cism) Fluharty, Matthew: Understanding Updike’s Farewell (book review) Mark Rothko; Reclamation Ground; Allen, Dick: Meditation on Poems of The Birds of Donegal; Four Poems the Nine Monks; Chinese Writing; A about the City (poetry) Zen Sonnet; The Last Ditch; What Fromm, Harold: Michael Phelps, You Have to Get Over (poetry) ..... 55 Domenico Scarlatti, and Scott Ross Anonymous Fourteenth-Century Poet: (arts review) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Gavaler, Chris: G.O.D. (fiction) trans. by John Ridland (poetry) ..... 549 Gold, Herbert: The Messiah Returned Balée, Susan: Women Writers of a to Haiti, but It Didn’t Help: Letter Certain Age (book review) from Port-au-Prince, 1953-2008 (jour- Barrett, Laurence: Night Watch; I know you are down there . . . (poetry) 403 Grosholz, Emily: Compacting Time: Baumel, Judith: Passeggiate and Cena Anne Stevenson’s Poems of Memory in Erice; Two Versions in the Same (criticism) Prism; Word Prediction Software The Humanism of Ernst Cassirer SMEns phse eras o e cating 583 (book review) Bawer, Bruce: Poets and Their Letters Gwynn, R. S.: “Given the Gift of Time” (book review) (book review) Underachiever? (criticism) Hadas, Rachel: The Address Book; Bedell, Jack B.: George Foreman in Woman and Girl; The Concert (poetry) 607 Zaire; Elvin Jones at Midnight; The Hardin, Jeff: How Many Lives Do You Injury Wall (poetry) .............. 259 Have?; How It Is on Depot Street Berry, Wendell: A Place in Time: Some (p oetry) Chapters ofa Telling Story (fiction) . 217 Heinz, Jack: Sugar (criticism) ........ 267 Blake, Lorna Knowles: Testimony of Hilles, Rick: Nights and Days of 2007: the Senses; Glosa (poetry) Autumn (poetry) Brown, Frederick, trans.: Letters from Hooper, Patricia: By August, Surely; America, by Alexis de Tocqueville . . The Afterlife (poetry) ............. 284 Cambridge, Gerry: Light Up Lanark- Hornby, Richard: Playing Chekhov SHWE ADOT) on on oo keenss ce 398 (arts review) Canaday, John: Robert Oppenheimer “Somewhere Else First” (arts review) . 296 after the War (poetry) Star Vehicles (arts review) Chmielarz, Sharon: The Preacher on The Berliner Ensemble (arts review) 653 Daniel and Ezekiel (poetry) Inez, Colette: In Etterbeek; Garland of Conkling, Helen: Snakes (poetry) .... Holy Roses (poetry) ............4. 245 Cooley, Peter: Eternal Places (poetry) . 84 Jackson, Benjamin: At the Alzheimer’s Davis, Alan: In the Dust Where My Ward; Speech of the Pacific (poetry) .6 0 Heart Will Remain (book review) .... 168 Jarman, Mark: Citizen Milton (book Donoghue, Denis: Keats’s Afterlife WOM lice < pte d So aae meetin 31¢ (book review) Primary Texts and Secondary Sources Three Presences: Yeats, Eliot, Pound (book review) RUMENO ND A.o cis chara 5 Ps aa awed eee 563 Kumin, Maxine: Childbirth, Dove Cot- Filbin, Thomas: On Location (book tage, the Wordsworths; The Victorian | MEGS Rs RARE cee. Obsession with the Preservation of Flower, Dean: Bergman’s Unseen Mas- PEA OCUINY eas cactir a!a ict in eb) eers 81e duels 210 CERPECE (OPNEISIN): on i5 no 65555So2sa 's 91 Lea, Sidney: Idiot Moon (poetry) INDEX TO VOLUME LXIl AUTHORS Allen, Brooke: Shrewd Old Abe (criti- Famous Seamus (book review) cism) Fluharty, Matthew: Understanding Updike’s Farewell (book review) Mark Rothko; Reclamation Ground; Allen, Dick: Meditation on Poems of The Birds of Donegal; Four Poems the Nine Monks; Chinese Writing; A about the City (poetry) Zen Sonnet; The Last Ditch; What Fromm, Harold: Michael Phelps, You Have to Get Over (poetry) ..... 55 Domenico Scarlatti, and Scott Ross Anonymous Fourteenth-Century Poet: (arts review) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Gavaler, Chris: G.O.D. (fiction) trans. by John Ridland (poetry) ..... 549 Gold, Herbert: The Messiah Returned Balée, Susan: Women Writers of a to Haiti, but It Didn’t Help: Letter Certain Age (book review) from Port-au-Prince, 1953-2008 (jour- Barrett, Laurence: Night Watch; I know you are down there . . . (poetry) 403 Grosholz, Emily: Compacting Time: Baumel, Judith: Passeggiate and Cena Anne Stevenson’s Poems of Memory in Erice; Two Versions in the Same (criticism) Prism; Word Prediction Software The Humanism of Ernst Cassirer SMEns phse eras o e cating 583 (book review) Bawer, Bruce: Poets and Their Letters Gwynn, R. S.: “Given the Gift of Time” (book review) (book review) Underachiever? (criticism) Hadas, Rachel: The Address Book; Bedell, Jack B.: George Foreman in Woman and Girl; The Concert (poetry) 607 Zaire; Elvin Jones at Midnight; The Hardin, Jeff: How Many Lives Do You Injury Wall (poetry) .............. 259 Have?; How It Is on Depot Street Berry, Wendell: A Place in Time: Some (p oetry) Chapters ofa Telling Story (fiction) . 217 Heinz, Jack: Sugar (criticism) ........ 267 Blake, Lorna Knowles: Testimony of Hilles, Rick: Nights and Days of 2007: the Senses; Glosa (poetry) Autumn (poetry) Brown, Frederick, trans.: Letters from Hooper, Patricia: By August, Surely; America, by Alexis de Tocqueville . . The Afterlife (poetry) ............. 284 Cambridge, Gerry: Light Up Lanark- Hornby, Richard: Playing Chekhov SHWE ADOT) on on oo keenss ce 398 (arts review) Canaday, John: Robert Oppenheimer “Somewhere Else First” (arts review) . 296 after the War (poetry) Star Vehicles (arts review) Chmielarz, Sharon: The Preacher on The Berliner Ensemble (arts review) 653 Daniel and Ezekiel (poetry) Inez, Colette: In Etterbeek; Garland of Conkling, Helen: Snakes (poetry) .... Holy Roses (poetry) ............4. 245 Cooley, Peter: Eternal Places (poetry) . 84 Jackson, Benjamin: At the Alzheimer’s Davis, Alan: In the Dust Where My Ward; Speech of the Pacific (poetry) .6 0 Heart Will Remain (book review) .... 168 Jarman, Mark: Citizen Milton (book Donoghue, Denis: Keats’s Afterlife WOM lice < pte d So aae meetin 31¢ (book review) Primary Texts and Secondary Sources Three Presences: Yeats, Eliot, Pound (book review) RUMENO ND A.o cis chara 5 Ps aa awed eee 563 Kumin, Maxine: Childbirth, Dove Cot- Filbin, Thomas: On Location (book tage, the Wordsworths; The Victorian | MEGS Rs RARE cee. Obsession with the Preservation of Flower, Dean: Bergman’s Unseen Mas- PEA OCUINY eas cactir a!a ict in eb) eers 81e duels 210 CERPECE (OPNEISIN): on i5 no 65555So2sa 's 91 Lea, Sidney: Idiot Moon (poetry) INDEX TO VOLUME LXil Lewis, Tess: Gravity and Grace: The Riocabo, Gabriel Arce: Letter from Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald (book Mexico: A Hero of Our Time (letter) 534 review) Rothman, David J.: Ivangorod, Ukraine, Lipsitz, Lou: Why Baseball Doesn’t 1942 (poetry) Matter (poetry) Sarah, Robyn: Pause for Breath; In an Louis-Dreyfus, William: Blood Sugar; Evening Window (poetry) ......... 266 Pledge; After Reading a Very Good Sexton, Tom: Washington County, Poem (poetry) Maiiic,; Snow (poetry) Makuck, Peter: War, Love, Art, and the Siegel, Marcia B.: Busby Berkeley and Limits of Language (book review) ... 487 the Projected Stage (arts review) ... . Mason, David: Robert Burns’s Inspired The Epoch Continues (arts review) a) a a a re 247 Prince of Lightness: Merce Cunning- Five Poets (book review) ham (1919-2009) (arts review) Travelers (book review) Lessons from the Road (arts review) . Moyer, Kermit: Learner’s Permit (fiction) 611 Skloot, Floyd: Jules Verne above Amiens, Mullen, Alexandra: Father/Daughter 1873; In Thompson Woods with John Match: Bronson and Louisa May Gardner, 1970 (poetry) Alcott (book review) . . Spencer, Elizabeth: Gleanings (book Murphy, Timothy: The Chase (poetry) 263 review) Neher, Erick: Dudamel, Domingo, Vil- Stevenson, Anne: Teaching My Sons to laz6n and the New Classical Music Swim in Walden Pond; Paper,; Dop- (arts review) pler (poetry) é On the Booing of La Sonnambula Stone, Sandra: Rimbaud’s Preoccupa- (arts review) «id. S erate ae tion with the Fly (poetry) .......... 587 The Glimmerglass Season 2009 (arts Strauss, Liane: The Museum of Desires review) (poetry) The Metropolitan Opera: Fall 2009 Sullivan, Alan: Death on the Nile (poet- Season (arts review) OR ieee G eda ee ge ac erds. cislslen 243 Perosa, Sergio: Letter from Venice: Tobin, Daniel: A Starry Messenger; A The Biennale (( etter) Greek Cup at the Met (poetry) Phillips, Robert: She (poetry) ........ 43 Tocqueville, Alexis de: Letters from Phillips, Siobhan: What We Talk about America, trans. by Frederick Brown When We Talk about Food (criticism) 189 CUIRED NT ese ace etoas psc sa os ess Pritchard, William H.: Hazlitt Redi- Wagoner, David: That Night in London; vivus (criticism) A Cold Call; A Zodiac for the 22"¢ Forster as Broadcaster and Critic Century (poetry) (book review) i acai g Wilhelmus, Tom: Dinner and a Classic Elizabeth Taylor’s Otherness (book (book review) review) Wilkin, Karen: Letter from the Nether- Range, Melissa: Pigs (see Swine); October lands (letter) Trees (poetry) At the Galleries (arts review) Reiter, Thomas: Entryways; The Hedge At the Galleries (arts review) Weaver; Rehab (poetry) «. 2o0 At the Galleries (arts review) Ridland, John, trans.: Sir Gawain and Williams, C. K.; Clay; Mouse Fur; the Green Knight, by Anonymous ther/Or (poetry) Fourteenth-Century Poet (poetry) ... 549 BOOKS REVIEWED (Listed by Author) Adiga, Aravind: The White Tiger (Alan (Peter Makuck) Davis) Arnold, Craig: Made Flesh (David Allen, Dick: Present Vanishing (R. S. Mason) Gwynn) Atkinson, Kate: When Will There Be Good Anderson, Idris: Mrs. Ramsay’s Knee ~ News? (Susan Balée) THE HUDSON REVIEW Atwood, Margaret: The Year of the Fll ood Devonshire: Jn Tearing Haste: Letters (Susan Balée) Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Bailey, Blake: Cheever: A Life (Bruce Leigh Fermor, ed. by Charlotte Mosley Bawer) (David Mason) Bailey, Blake, ed.: John Cheever: Collected Fitzgerald, Penelope: So J Have Thought of Stories and Other Writings and Complete” You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald, Novels (Bruce Bawer) ed. and intro. by Terence Dooley. Beauman, Nicola: The Other Elizabeth Pref. by A. S. Byatt (Tess Lewis) .... 147 Taylor (William H. Pritchard) ......513 Forster, E. M.: The BBC Talks of E. M. Beer, Anna: Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer, Forster 1929-1960, ed. by Mary Lago, and Patriot (Mark Jarman) Linda K. Hughes and Elizabeth Bishop, Elizabeth and Robert Lowell: MacLeod Wells (William H. Prit- The Complete Correspondence Between | i Si ae ear m TJ Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, ed. The Creator as Critic and Other Writing by Thomas Trevisano and Saskia by E. M. Forster, ed. by Jeffrey M. Hamilton (Bruce Bawer) Heath (William H. Pritchard) Sree reee Bolano, Roberto: 2666, trans. by Natasha Forsyth, Neil: John Milton, A Biography Wimmer (Alan Davis) (Mark Jarmnait) 5.6065.5:060 0o5w 3 s 31¢ Burlingame, Michael: Abraham Lincoln: A Foust, Rebecca: Dark Card ( Life (Brooke Allen) Gwynn) Byatt, A. S.: The Children’s Book (Susan Ginsberg, Allen: The Letters of Allen Balée) Ginsberg, ed. by Bill Morgan (Bruce Campbell, Gordon and Thomas N. Bawer) Corns: John Milton: Life, Work, and Ginsberg, Allen and Gary Snyder: The Thought (Mark Jarman) ...........319 Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Cheever, John: John Cheever: Collected Gary Snyder, ed. by Bill Morgan Stories and Other Writings and Complete (Bruce Bawer) Novels, ed. by Blake Bailey (Bruce Goldbarth, Albert: To Be Read in 500 RO oss icra arent ten ea os Years (Mark Jarman) Collins, Arda: It Is Daylight (Mark — Guelzo, Allen C.: Lincoln and Douglas: Jarman) The Debates that Defined America Collins, James: Beginner’s Greek (Thomas (Brooke Allen) PMEONR SS goad ach ieee Rea iets ek tev’ Hamilton, Jane: Laura Rider’s Master- Corns, Thomas N. and Gordon Camp- piece (Tom Wilhelmus) ...........505 bell: John Milton: Life, Work, and Hamilton, Saskia and Thomas Trevisano, Thought (Mark Jarman) ...........319 eds.: The Complete Correspondence Crawford, Robert: The Bard: Robert Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Burns, a Biography (David Mason) . . . 247 Lowell (Bruce Bawer) Devonshire, Deborah and Patrick Leigh Heath, Jeffrey M., ed.: The Creator as Fermor: In Tearing Haste: Letters Critic and Other Writing by E. M. Forster Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick (William H. Pritchard) ...........337 Leigh Fermor, ed. by Charlotte Mosley Heller, Zoé: The Believers (Thomas (David Mason) Dooley, Terence, ed. and intro.: So J Hoffman, David: The Whole Nine Yards Have Thought of You: The Letters of (Peter Makuck) Penelope Fitzgerald. Pref. by A. S. Byatt Hoffman, Eva: Appassionata (Susan (Tess Lewis) Dove, Rita: Sonata Mulattica (Mark Holzer, Harold: Lincoln, President-Elect: Jarman) » Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Epstein, Daniel Mark: The Lincolns: Winter 1860-1861 (Brooke Allen) ...17 Portrait of a Marriage (Brooke Allen) 17 Holzer, Harold, ed.: Lincoln Anthology: Fairchild, B. H.: Usher (Mark Jarman) 683 Great Writers on His Legacy from 1860 to Fehrenbacher, Don E., ed.: Lincoln: Now (Brooke Allen) Speeches and Writings, 1832-1858 (Brooke Hughes, Linda K., Mary Lago and Eliz- Allen) abeth MacLeod Wells, eds.: The BBC Lincoln: Speeches and Writings, 1858-1865 Talks of E. M. Forster 1929-1960 (Brooke Allen) (William H. Pritchard) ...........337 Fermor, Patrick Leigh and Deborah Hughes, Ted: Letters of Ted Hughes, ed. INDEX TO VOLUME LXII 703 by Christopher Reid (Bruce Bawer) 127 Morrison, Toni: A Mercy (Alan Davis) . 168 James, Clive: Opal Sunset: Selected Poems Mosley, Charlotte, ed.: Jn Tearing 1958-2008 (R. S. Gwynn) Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devon- Jelinek, Elfriede: Greed, trans. by shire and Patrick Leigh Fermor (David Martin Chalmers (Alan Davis) Mason) Johnson, Denis: Nobody Move (Tom Munro, Alice: Too Much Happiness Wilhelmus) (Susan Balée) Kaplan, Fred: Lincoln: The Biography of Nothomb, Amélie: Tokyo Fiancée, trans. a Wniter (Brooke Allen) by Alison Anderson (Thomas Filbin) 345 Kureishi, Hanif: Something to Tell You O'Callaghan, Billy: Jn Exile (Thomas (Thomas Filbin) Lago, Mary, Linda K. Hughes and Eliz- O'Driscoll, Dennis: Stepping Stones: abeth MacLeod Wells, eds.: The BBC Interviews with Seamus Heaney (Dean Talks of E. M. Forster 1929-1960 Flower) (William H. Pritchard) ...........35 Ostriker, Alicia Suskin: The Mother/Child Le Clézio,J .M . G.: The Interrogation, Papers (Mark Jarman) trans. by Daphne Woodward (Alan Phillips, Robert: Now © Then: New and Davis) Selected Poems (Peter Makuck) Lincoln, Abraham: Lincoln: Speeches Plumly, Stanley: Posthumous Keats: A and Writings, 1832-1858, ed. by Don Personal Biography (Denis Donoghue) 147 E. Fehrenbacher (Brooke Allen) ... Poch, John: Two Men Fighting with a Lincoln: Speeches and _ Writings, Knife (R. S. Gwynn) 1858-1865, ed. by Don E. Fehren- Pynchon, Thomas: /nherent Vice (Thomas bacher (Brooke Allen) Filbin) Littell, Jonathan: The Kindly Ones, Reid, Christopher, ed.: Letters of Ted trans. by Charlotte Mandell (Thomas Hughes (Bruce Bawer) Filbin) Rendell, Ruth: Portobello (Susan Balée) 663 The Kindly Ones, trans. by Charlotte Saramago, José: Death with Interrup- Mandell (Tom Wilhelmus) ...... tions, trans. by Margaret Jull Costa Lowell, Robert and Elizabeth Bishop: (Alan Davis) The Complete Correspondence Between Simpson, Louis: Struggling Times (Peter Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, ed. Makuck) by Thomas Trevisano and Saskia Skidelsky, Edward: Ernst Cassirer: The Hamilton (Bruce Bawer) Last Philosopher of Culture (Emily McGovern, George: Abraham Lincoln Grosholz) (Brooke Allien) Snyder, Gary and Allen Ginsberg: The McHaney, Peasi Amelia, ed.: Occasions: Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Selected Writings, by Eudora Welty Gary Snyder, ed. by Bill Morgan (Elizabeth Spencer) ( 160 (Bruce Bawer) McInerney, Jay: How It Ended (Tom Stanton, Maura: Immortal Sofa (David Wilhelmus) |) Eee a ee eee Ae ere area McPherson, James M.: Tried by War: Stevenson, Anne: Selected Poems (David Ahraham Lincoln as Commander-in WOOD oo career cme 2 aera eae a ee Chief (Brooke Allen) Symonds, Craig L.: Lincoln and His Marozzi, Justin: The Way of Herodotus: Admirals (Brooke Allen) Travels with the Man Who Invented Trevisano, Thomas and Saskia Hamil- History (David Mason) : 497 ton, eds.: The Complete Correspondence Matteson, John: Eden’s Outcasts: The Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Lowell (Bruce Bawer) Father (Alexandra Mullen) Updike, John: Endpoint and Other Poems Maxwell, Glyn: Hide Now (David RERNIE oa canwie ckeinee Cen sors 326 My Father’s Tears and Other Stories Milton, John: Paradise Lost, intro. by (Brooke ARem) <...cccccdsseccssSs2 1 Philip Pullman (Mark Jarman) Walker, Jeanne Murray: New Tracks, Morgan, Bill, ed.: The Letters of Allen Night Falling (Peter Makuck) Ginsberg (Bruce Bawer) Wells, Elizabeth MacLeod, Linda K. The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg Hughes and Mary Largo, eds.: The and Gary Snyder (Bruce Bawer) BBC Talks of E. M. Forster 1929-1960 THE HUDSON REVIEW (William H. Pritchard) ...........337 SAGWythh is ad cle oe bee oe ord 138 Welty, Eudora: Occasions: Selected Writ- Wu, Duncan: William Hazlitt: The First ings, ed. by Pearl Amelia McHaney Modern Man (William H. Pritchard) . 45 (Elizabeth Spencer) Yezzi, David: Azores (David Mason) .. . 326 Whitworth, John: Being the Bad Guy (R. VOLUME LXIl Spring 2009 (No. 1) pages 1-176; Summer 2009 (No. 2) pages 177-352; Autumn 2009 (No. 3) 355-528; Winter 2010 (No. 4) pages 529-704 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Editors wish to express their deepest appreciation to the National ‘Endowment for the Arts for awarding The Hudson Review a stimulus grant under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Publication of this issue of THE HUDSON REVIEW is also supported by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency. 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