Encounter, Volume 20, Number 4, Issue 115, April 1963

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Includes Mary McCarthy's "Burroughs' 'Naked Lunch'" an influential essay published after the 1962 International Writers Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Published in London, England by Encounters in April, 1963.

This copy was formerly in the collection of Darin Scope.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in M&M
• Shoaf IV.10
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19630400ENCO.20.4, b8

Selected Contents:

• Noel Annan: "The Universities" (essay)
• Isabella Gardner: "Sestina" (poetry)
• Richard Eberhart: "The World Situation" (poetry)
• R. H. S. Crossman: "Machine Politics" (essay)
• Patricia Blake: "An Anthology: New Voices in Russian Writing" (introduction)
• Yuri Kazakov: "Adam and Eve" (prose)
• Andrei Vosnesensky:
• "Parabolic Ballad" (poetry, translated by W. H. Auden)
• "Fire in the Architectural Institute" (poetry, translated by Stanley Kunitz)
• "Autumn" (poetry, translated by Stanley Kunitz)
• "The Skull Ballad" (poetry, translated by Stanley Kunitz)
• "Foggy Street" (poetry, translated by Richard Wilbur)
• "Anti-worlds" (poetry, translated by Richard Wilbur)
• "Leaves and Roots" (poetry, translated by Robert Conquest)
• "Evening on the Building Site" (poetry, translated by Robert Conquest)
• "You Live at Your Aunt's" (poetry, translated by Robert Conquest)
• Bella Akhmadulina: "Volcanoes" (poetry, translated by W. H. Auden)
• Evgeni Vinokurov: "Every railway station..." (poetry, translated by W. H. Auden)
• Vasili Aksyonov: "Half-way to the Moon" (prose)
• Victor Sosnora: "Dolphins" (poetry, translated by Max Hayward)
• Boris Slutsky: "A Footnote to the Debate about Andrey Rublyov" (poetry, translated by Max Hayward)
• Bulat Okudzhava: "Good Luck, Schoolboy!" (prose)
• Evgeny Evtushenko:
• "A Knock on the Door" (poetry, translated by George Reavey)
• "Through the Crowded Streets" (poetry, translated by George Reavey)
• "Humour" (poetry, translated by George Reavey)
• "Secrets" (poetry, translated by F. D. Reeve)
• Mary McCartney: "Burroughs' 'Naked Lunch'" (review)
• Kathleen Nott: combined review of Tom Chetwynd's The Copper Cow, Heinrich von Kleist's The Marquise of O, Brian Glanville's The Director's Wife and Other Stories, John Bingham's A Case of Libel, and Laurens van der Post's The Seed and the Sower.
• Nikita Sergeyvich Khrushchev: essay on modern art
• Aldous Huxley: letter

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Stephen Spender, Melvin J. Lasky
• Assistant Editor: Margot Walmsley, Francis Hope
• Circulation: John Hall