ID: 8354  -  Gigliola Sacerdoti Mariani  -  Firenze Type: Text    Spain 1936 Format: Medium: Essay Extent: 8 pp. Identifier: Source: Title: Barcelona, 1936 Subtitle: Alternative: Agents: Creator: Rukeyser, Muriel Role: Name: Created: Date: Issued in/on: 1936 Language: English Language: Spanish Rights: Relation: IsPartOf Qualifier: Life and Letters Today, Vol. 15, No. 5, Autumn 1936 Coverage: Place: Time: Description: The essay is divided into seven parts and each part is preceded by an epigraph. It is introduced by the following editorial note on Muriel Rukeyser: “The author left London alone on July 18th. She was on the last train to enter Spain after the fighting began and arrived back in London on July 27th. This was her first visit to Europe”. Subjects: Places Subjects: Places Subjects: Places Subjects: Identity Subjects: Identity Subjects: Identity Subjects: Displacement Subjects: Exchanges Subjects: Exchanges Subjects: Exchanges Subjects: Nationalism/Regionalism Subjects: Internationalism/Transnationalism Subjects: War Subjects: War Subjects: War Subjects: War Subjects: War Subjects: War Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Wo/Men Subjects: Identity Keywords: France Keywords: Life and Letters To-day Keywords: Spain Keywords: anti-fascism Keywords: consciousness raising Keywords: Popular Front Keywords: Rukeyser, Muriel Keywords: Europe Keywords: Olympic Games Keywords: US Keywords: Spain Keywords: Olympic Games Keywords: Barcelona Keywords: Europe Keywords: journalists Keywords: literature Keywords: poetry Keywords: Spain Keywords: Bryher (Winifred Ellerman) Keywords: Rukeyser, Muriel Keywords: politics Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, France) Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, Life and Letters To-day) Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, Spain) Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, anti-fascism) Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, consciousness raising) Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, Popular Front) Query Subject+Keyword: (Displacement, Rukeyser, Muriel) Query Subject+Keyword: (Exchanges, Europe) Query Subject+Keyword: (Exchanges, Olympic Games) Query Subject+Keyword: (Exchanges, US) Query Subject+Keyword: (Nationalism/Regionalism, Spain) Query Subject+Keyword: (Internationalism/Transnationalism, Olympic Games) Query Subject+Keyword: (War, Barcelona) Query Subject+Keyword: (War, Europe) Query Subject+Keyword: (War, journalists) Query Subject+Keyword: (War, literature) Query Subject+Keyword: (War, poetry) Query Subject+Keyword: (War, Spain) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Bryher (Winifred Ellerman)) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Rukeyser, Muriel) Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, politics) Comment: It is interesting to note that this is the first of Rukeyser’s contributions to Life and Letters Today. In the same issue we find an essay by Thomas Mann on “Freud and the Future”, a poem by Horace Gregory, a section of Ignazio Silone’s Bread and Wine and reviews of books by Bryher. In the “Notes on Contributors” she is presented as follows: ”Muriel Rukeyser, who was born in 1913, is author of the well-received Theory of Flight, a first selection of verse published in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. We took occasion of her visiting England to enrol her as contributor and are happy to be introducing in December several of her newest poems to our readers”. As a matter of fact, three of her poems appeared in the Winter issue of Life and Letters Today, as promised. Another ‘politically’ meaningful poem – “Elegy” - was published in Vol. 21, No. 19 (1939).