Ploughshares Fall 1978 Edited by DeWitt Henry

The Fall 1978 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by DeWitt Henry. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

Table of Contents

FICTION
"Characters," by Alice Munro
"A Record As Long As Your Arm," by George Garrett
"Obligato," by Eve Shelnutt

NONFICTION
"The Poetry of Anthony Hecht," by Ashley Brown
"Mona Van Duyn and the Politics of Love," by Lorrie Goldensohn
"The Fiction of Alice Munro," by Hallvard Dahlie
"The Short Fiction of George Garrett," by William Peden
"Notes away from the Definition of Major and Minor," by Christopher Ricks
"The Mumbling of Young Werther: Angst by Blueprint in Contemporary Poetry," by Brendan Galvin
"The Golden Age of the American Novel," by Roger Sale
"The Criticism of Martin Green (with Gayarti Acharya)," by Linda Bamber
"Philip Roth," by Martin Green
"Eve Shelnutt's The Love Child," by Fred Chappell
"Joyce Peseroff's The Hardness Scale," by Robert Pinsky
"Charles Martin's Room for Error," by Robert Hass
"Magical Strength in the Human Heart," by Carter Wilson
"Comfort and Wilderness: Robert B. Shaw," by Paul Breslin
"The Poetry of G. F. Dutton," by Anne Stevenson
"On Anne Stevenson," by Jay Parini

POETRY
Anthony Hecht
Mona Van Duyn