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$1.25(8s.6d.NET)  \nhhrln Momn  \nVOLUME 57 OF THE YALE SERIES OF YOUNGERPOETS,EDITED BY DUDLEY FITTS AND PUBLISHEDWITH AID FROM THE MARY CADY TEW MEMORIALFUND  \n—  \nPOEMS  \nNEw HAVEN:YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS  \nBY ALAN DUGAN  \nForeword by Dudley Fitts  \nXavier University Library'New Orleans,LA70125  \n811.>TD866p  \nCopyright ◎1961 by Alan DuganFifth printing,November 1966  \nPrinted in the United States of America byThe Carl Purington Rollins Printing-Office  \nof the Yale University Press,New Haven,Connecticut.All rights reserved.This book may not bereproduced,in whole or in part,in any form(except by reviewers for the public press),without written permission from the publishers.Library of Congress catalog card number:6o-53360  \nAcknowledgment is made to the following magazinesfor poems originally appearing in them:  \nPoetry (Chicago):Prison Song;Oasis;The NaturalEnemies of the Conch;Imperial Song for Warmth;The Branches of Water or Desire;Portrait(\"Thecaptive flourished like\");Landfall;Notes Toward aSpring Offensive;Actual Vision of Morning'sExtrusion;How We Heard the Name;On an EastWind from the Wars;Philodendron.  \nAccent:Love Song:I and Thou;On Hurricane Jackson;Poem(\"The person who can do\").The New Yorker:The Stutterer.  \nThe poem now entitled \"Sixteen Lines on Marching\"was published in Cross-Section 1947,ed.Edwin Seaver;permission to reprint it is gratefully acknowledged.  \n 到  5的在境生1 iadherence to classical attitude  \nFOR JUDY  \nFOREWORD  \nWe begin with facts.On 22 May 334 B.C.,Alexanderthe Great defeated the Persians at the river Granicus,andfrom there he went on to conquer the rest of Asia Minor.Granicus was a famous victory,with Alexander's thirty thou-sand routing the six hundred thousand of Darius;and wehave the inscription composed by Alexander himself in whichhe remarks that he won the battle ‘with no help from theLacedaemonians'.Generals are not normally so petulant intheir moments of self-congratulation,and inscriptions by theirnature entail being economical with words;hence our fancyis struck by those absent Spartans,who seem indeed,thoughin a negative way,to matter almost more than the combatantsthemselves.Where were the Lacedaemonians?Were theycombing their long hair?Were they at home in bed on thisantique Feast of Crispin Crispian?So history,even in thisobscure record,teases the mind;but I cite it here because ithas teased Mr.Dugan's specifically,and because it has some-how resulted in 'How We Heard the Name’,a poem that de-lights me.  \nI wish that I could account entirely for that delight.History is not really helpful.Alexander is a fact,Granicus isa fact,even the Spartans are what Mr.E.E.Cummings mightcall an unfact;but they are only the material that has passedinto an aesthetic and philosophical fact that seems queerlyremote from its origin.A strangeness surrounds the soldierwho comes floating down that Bithynian river:  \nHe seemed drunkand we asked him Whyhad he and this junkcome down to us sofrom the past upstream.'Friends,'he said,'the great  \nBattle of Granicushas just been won  \nby all of the Greeks exceptthe Lacedaemonians andmyself:this is a jokebetween me and a mannamed Alexander,whomall of you ba-baswill hear of as a god.  \nThat talk seems straight enough,in all conscience.Yet I havespoken of a queerness,a strangeness;and I am aware of anextraordinary tension,too,in spite of the greyness of dictionand versification.Or,it may be,because of that greyness.This free-and-easy survivor,this least gloriosus of veterans,has rejected the splendors of history that ba-bas record forother ba-bas to read,and has achieved('and/myself')anindividual,anti-heroic,apart-from-the-mob victory that seemsto dwarf Alexander's.He alone has done it,or he and themissing Spartans,and it is a victory worth winning in an ageof togetherness.But though this may be the import of thepoem,as I take it to be,it is not in itself 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