"Poetry and Painting" and "A Dream," by the late John Peale Bishop
, are included in this anthology with the kind permission of the
poet's widow, Mrs. Margaret H. Bishop, and of the Editor of The
Sewanee Review. I wish also to thank the Editor of The Sewanee Re-
view for permission to reprint here certain titles which appeared in
that journal: "The Märchen," by Randall Jarrell; "William Faulkner's
Legend of the South," by Malcolm Cowley; "Myth-Makers and the
South's Dilemma," by Louis B. Wright; "The Guide," by Andrew Lytle
; and "A Long Fourth," by Peter Taylor.

Thanks are due the following publishers for their courtesy in giving
permission to quote in the Essay section from works in copyright:
Charles Scribner's Sons for quotations from Aleck Maury, Sportsman,
by Caroline Gordon, Look Homeward, Angel, by Thomas Wolfe, and
The Fathers, by Allen Tate; Alfred A. Knopf for quotations from
Blue Girls, by John Crowe Ransom, and The Sacred Wood, by T. S. Eliot
; Harcourt, Brace Co., Inc. for quotations from Selected Essays
and The Use of Poetry, by T. S. Eliot, Cass Mastern's Wedding Ring,
by Robert Penn Warren, and The Wide Net, A Curtain of Green, and
The Robber Bridegroom, by Eudora Welty; Random House, Inc. for
quotations from Ulysses, by James Joyce, and Light in August and
Absalom! Absalom! by William Faulkner; Harper & Brothers for
quotations from You Can't Go Home Again, by Thomas Wolfe; The
Macmillan Company for quotations from Autobiographies, by William Butler Yeats
; Robert M. McBride and Co. for quotations from
Jurgen, by James Branch Cabell; and G. P. Putnam's Sons for quota-
tions from Reason in Madness, by Allen Tate.

A. T.

-xi-