TITLE: The Saturday Review of Literature
[Each Saturday Review of Literature issue covers books, arts, literature, movies, ideas, music, science, poetry and much more. Many regular features and writers, and most reviews are also essays on the subject at hand. ALL the latest books had to have an ad in The Saturday Review! ]
ISSUE DATE: JULY 20 1957; Vol. XL, No. 29
CONDITION: RARE edition, standard magazine size, Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in clean, VERY GOOD condition. (See photo)

IN THIS ISSUE:
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COVER: "The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. it is the achievement of beauty. The weiter of prose can only step aside when the poet passes." -- W. Somerset Maugham.

SR/ACCENT ON POETRY:
The Shock Reaction to Poetry, by John Ciardi.
Hungary's Poet-Hero, by Louis Fischer.
Poems by Wallace Stevens, Hayden Carruth, Nathaniel Zimskind, William Meredith, R. G.
Vliet, Daniel Berrigan, Lisel Mueller, Donald Hall.
The Green Wall, by James Wright, Reviewed by Philip Booth.
The Persimmon Tree, by Peter Viereck, Reviewed by Selden Rodman.

SR/BOOKS:
The Invasion of France and Germany, by Samuel Eliot Morison, Reviewed by S. L. A. Marshall and John Haverstick.
Operation Sea Lion, by Peter Fleming, Reviewed by Teljord Taylor.
Coup de Grace, by Marguerite Yourcenar, Reviewed by Ben Ray Redman.
Revolution and Roses, by P. H.
Newby, Reviewed by Carlos Baker.
Reflections on Hanging, by Arthur Koestler ; The Sanctity of Life, by Glanville Williams, Reviewed by Henry Weihojen.
Rattlesnakes, Their Habits, Life Histories, and Influence on Mankind, by Laurence M.
Klauber, Reviewed by Charles M. Bogert.
On the Trail of Vanishing Birds, by Robert Porter Allen, Reviewed by Roger Tory Peterson.
Hammock Reading for Sportsmen, by Al Silverman.

SR/DEPARTMENTS: Trade Winds. Literary Crypt. Letters to the Editor. Broadway Postscript. SR Goes to the Movies. TV and Radio. Music to My Ears. Booked for Travel. Literary I.Q. Books for Young People. Kinglsey Double-Crostic No. 1217.

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