The Rocking Horse, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1933
Madison, Wisconsin: The Arden Club - University of Wisconsin, 1933. The second issue of this short-lived literary magazine published by the Arden Club at the University of Wisconsin from 1933-35. Founded by Arden Club members, the most notable of which were Ph.D student and future linguist, psychologist, senator and San Francisco State College president, Samuel Ichiyé Hayakawa (1906-1992), and his future wife, Margedant Peters, who was the one-time sister-in-law of Joseph Stalin's daughter. The journal, which was named after a line in Keats, sought to provide a “medium in which imaginative interpretation of life can be expressed on this campus” (from the unattributed editorial in the inaugural issue).
Besides Hayakawa and Peters, notable contributors included August Derleth, Ezra Pound (an open letter to the magazine), William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Horace Gregory, Walker Winslow, Mark Schorer, Yvor Winters, Alfred Morang, Ruth Shafer, as well as a number of obscure Univ. of Wisconsin students and/or other contributors. Contributors to this isssue include Margedant Peters, Winifred Haynes, Jack Havard, John F. Pick, Roy Martin Ivens, Alfred Biberman, Mary Willis, Guy Gibson, Janet Breed, S. Ichiye Hayakawa, Mark Schorer, E. H., and Grace Golden.
Stapled, yellow wrappers, 32 p. Light wear to wrappers, but a very good or better copy. All issues uncommon in commerce. Item #12561
Price: $95.00