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Discusses trends in poetry and literature in the twentieth century. Precision and concreteness prevalent in poetry; History of European literature before World War I; Impact of World War II on art; Poetry of Tadeusz Rozewicz and its simplicity; Probably impossibility to create an art that could answer to the terror of those extreme experiences of the World Wars; Cost of rooting oneself in reality; Work of Polish essayist Jerzy Stempowski.

Focuses on the decision of U.S. President George Bush to enlist. Desire of Bush to join the military when he was student at Phillips Academy in Andover; Presentation of the Distinguished Flying Cross award to Bush, for his action at Chichi Jima; Publication of two campaign autobiographies of Bush, containing divergent accounts of his war experiences.

Focuses on the effect of the Second World War on magazines and periodicals read by the people of the U.S. Tendency of U.S. people to read more magazines and journals than poetry or philosophy; Projection of magazines as the popular literature of the country; Difference between entertainment and information provided by various types of mass media; Defense of the dominant values of the society by radio, magazine and press; View that magazines represent culture better, provide a higher degree of intelligence and intellectual curiosity; Importance of magazines for people lacking time to read books; Increase in revenues and circulation and advertising revenues; Names of some popular magazines circulated in the United States.

Focuses on the present condition of American literature. Disinterest in literature among young authors; Reasons for disinterest among middle aged American authors; Involvement of American authors in the war; Discussion on the reaction against social literature after the First World War; Opinion that the social movement among writers reached it highest point in 1937; Information on the pamphlet called "Writer Take Sides," published by the League of American Writers, which was campaigning for the Loyalists; Information on the novels published during the social realism of 1930's; Suggestion of an experiment for training writers; Domination of the American literature by the writers who came of age during or shortly after the First World War; Information on such writers.

Presents revaluation of various writers who began their career between 1911 and 1920. Inspiration for the labor literature from books like "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair and "Martin Eden," by Jack London; Fate of writers like jack London, Jack Reed and Walter Lippmann; Maintenance of the socialist tradition by young writers like Dos Passos and Michael Gold; Comments on the contents of the novel titled "Dark Laughter," by Sherwood Anderson; Recommendations of listening to the wise voices of the body; Development of a literature that is cosmopolitan, weary, witty and aristocratic; Emergence of a group of writers who believed in presenting the real face of the American middle class; Evolution of a new brand of writers who marched forward arm in arm against the old standards of life and culture; Information on plays like "Emperor Jones" and "Anna Christie" which have made themselves part of the American heritage; Impact of the war on American literature; Alienation of young writers from the realm of American society.

Discusses the correlation between literature and war. Ways by which the field of literature benefits from war; Argument that the indebtedness of literature to war is, being simply, that there never was a literature not introduced by a period of war; Impact of war on the works of playwright, William Shakespeare; War's effect on human nature; Biases that have determined the holder's opinion of the effect of war on human spirit; Manifestation of the principle of Puritanism in war; Nature of the puritanical outlook towards war.

Reports that Russian writers have been appealing for more freedom and genuine debates within the government-controlled Union of Writers on the content and goals of Soviet literature after the death of former Russian leader Joseph Stalin. Appearance of editorials on Soviet artistic works in the leading literary and the Communist Party journals; Criticism of literary performance of Soviet writers, since the World War II, by the Party; Strategy of the Party to use the party spirit to discredit all writers not to its ideological liking; Demand for optimism in the Soviet literature in socialist realism; Request for the Soviet authors to show complexities and contradictions of Soviet heroic era.

Presents information on poetry of last ten years. Inspiration by Spanish civil war for writing tragic grandeur; Edith Sitwell inspired, by the air raids, to a fierce compassion for the woes of humanity; Information that the large output of the Soviet Union poetry during the recent war shows that such a doctrine, officially sponsored and enforced by ingenious sanctions, may produce work of considerable interest; Suggestion for the poets to give their best; Deviation of modernist poetry from the ordinary man; "Romencero Gitano" a flawless work of art by Federico Garcia Lorca.

Focuses on the nationalist literature in Germany. Information on the book "All Quiet on the Western Front"; Impact of the books, glorifying the heroic needs of the war, on German youth; Comparison of the interests of German boys with those of American youth; Information on Ernst Junger, a German author; Impact of the books by Junger, on youngsters; Information on the life of Ernst von Salomon, an author; Information on his book "The Outlaws," which describes informative story on the violence in Germany; Dissatisfaction of Salomon with the Nazi Party; Role played by various authors in psychological preparation of the Second World War.

Discusses the negative impact of intensive preoccupation with the national danger on free intelligence in France. Barrier of war restrictions to the work of writers; Distraction of the German army to the artist, intellectual or scholarly mind; Psychological effect of the sense of the imminence of the German army on critical and creative work; Oppression of the liberals and radicals with the awareness of moral or social decline; Quality of the French war literature.

Explains that in August 1914, the Royal Library in Berlin, Germany had created a department which was to gather a complete collection of war literature. Four and a half tons of newspapers were received; Ten thousand books; Spectrum series of self-justifications; Civil, military, and financial chronicles; English stories; French poems; Records of legislative procedures; Pacifist literature; National usurers' books; War novels; War manuals and calendars; Anthologies of war poems; Surveys of neutral opinion; Translations of state papers.

Looks into the role of the writer and poet in the second world war. Inadequacy of the words of a poet in times of war; Excerpt from war poems; Analysis of how a poet will view the war and what kind sentiments regarding the war will be cited in his poems; Objective behind the creation of the Writers' War Board in the United States; Challenges facing a poet involved in war when writing regarding that war.

The author reflects on the speech of Archibald MacLeish, the U.S. Librarian of Congress. At a speech before the American Association for Adult Education, MacLeish has declared that the war novels certain writers including John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway have left the younger generation defenseless against an enemy whose cynicism, brutality and stated intention to enslave present the issue in terms of conviction and belief. A criticism by the author on MacLeish's speech is presented.

The article profiles American cultural and literary critic Paul Fussell, whom the author credits with profoundly shaping how both war and 20th-century Western culture are understood. It notes that during his World War II military service he witnessed his sergeant's death and was injured himself, and says this had a significant impact on his future academic work. It discusses the research he conducted for his best-known book, "The Great War and Modern Memory," including reading archival materials from ordinary soldiers in World War I. Historian John Keegan's book "The Face of Battle" is also cited.

Comments on developments in wartime American literature and discusses views put forth by the newspaper "New Masses" about political affairs of the United States. Criticism against journalist Samuel Sillen's portrayal of a decaying American literature in his article; Status of American literature during the period between the two World Wars; View that the Second World War has led to a growth of unity among people in their efforts to stop the War; Political issues raised by the newspaper "New Masses"; Factors that have contributed toward an optimism about the situation in Europe.

Presents information on a letter written to the wife of Salvador P. Lopez, a writer. Information on murder of the writer by the Japanese; Efforts of the writer's wife going to the mountains to finish of Lopez work; Focus on literature by Lopez, that was on peasants; Information on personality of Lopez; Focus on the book "Literature and Society," by Lopez; Report on Lopez who first achieved the needed articulation of social ideas in the Philippines; Emotions of the author towards the writer; Comparison of the writer to heroism of a solider in war; Efforts of the author in working towards democratic society; Information on wishes of the author on the free U.S. regardless of color, station and beliefs; Focus on the U.S. being a place of various races and types of people; Expression of patriotism by the author for the U.S.; Information on Lopez, who wanted to abolish tenantry; Opinion of the author on Japan being common enemy of Philippines and the U.S.

The article critically analyzes the book "Parade's End," by Ford Madox Ford. The book covers the war and postwar years. "Parade's End" is not really a "war" novel. Its intention is to portray a transitional period in the structure of social and moral values, and the 1914-18 war, presented for the most part indirectly, is the phantasmagoric milieu in which old social forms dissolve, old allegiances are betrayed and values scrapped, and the transition precipitated. Ford was an English Man of Letters on the grand scale. He tried his hand at almost every literary form.

Focuses on a letter wherein the writer, who is a philosopher, apologizes for being slack during the World War I. Preoccupation of the philosopher with literary works in war-time; Lament of the philosopher at the destruction caused by the war in general and to art in particular; Belief of the philosopher that there is the need of men to maintain even in war the things which make the country worth defending; Assertion of theoretic philosophy can be justified only by its practical applications.

Examines the fate of European literature after the end of the war in Europe. Observation by E.B. Osborn of the stagnation of several writers fond of subjects that formerly appeal to themselves and the public; Claim on the inability of the journalistic style to survive during the age of patriotism and independence; Proposal for the possible change in heart and mind of authors due to the prominence of peace; Speculation on the type of adaptation by writers Arnold Bennet, John Galsworthy, Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells; Journalistic styles of Hilaire Belloc and Israel Zangwill.

Presents notes of the author related to several significant events. Recommendations for all politicians and political theorists to be discredited on account of the war; Comments on the prevailing literary form; Opinion on the fact that readers find it very hard to understand modern verse; Allegations on modern literature being repetitive and silly; Views on the notion that poems should express real emotions.

Discusses of increase in the English writing at the time of war. Domination of the Communist writers in the nineteen-thirties; Report from editors and publishers report that the output of verse has risen since the war; Sales of six-penny reprints; Control of state on all of the press matters; Level of intelligence in England.

Presents the poem "Apollo in Pittsburgh," by William McFee.

Presents the poem "The Young Man and the Old Woman," by John Ervine.

Presents a letter to the editor commenting about the review of French war literature "Under the Sword of Damocles."

Discusses the appearance of documents of interest to writers and readers in the French city of Paris, just after the Italian army entered Ethiopia. Impact of the event on the French literary world; Pro-Fascist manifesto entitled "For the Defense of Culture"; Left-wing writers' release of "Reply to the Fascist Intellectuals"; Group of Catholic writers, editors and professors who released a document titled "For Justice and Peace"; Open letter sent by several left-wing writers to the authors of the Catholic manifesto.

Focuses on efforts of various journals and mass media to generate public interest on the political condition of the U.S. Criticism of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's war policy published in The New York Daily News; Opinion presented in The Detroit Times about American Navy; Literature of the Social Republic Society of America regarding the war policy of the U.S. concerned with Europe and Asia; Broadcasting of programs on how to compel the U.S. government to save Americans at foreign battle fields.

Focuses on the federal Writers' Project and the impact of the second World War on it. Transformation of Writers' Project into the Writers' Unit of the War Services Subdivision of the Work Projects Administration; Occupation of the project with war services, a series of sixty-four "Servicemen's Recreational Guides," to the areas surrounding various military camps; Information on the staff of the Writers' unit; Fears expressed by congressmen that the project would lead to all sorts of visionary and unbusinesslike ventures, including even a Federal Bureau of Fine Arts; Demonstration by the project that national government can encourage the production and wider appreciation of American literature.