Lawrence: surprisingly I've never actually seen _And_ though I know of its
existence. I'll have to pick up a few copies. Ditto the _Oasis_.
Though if that's all the names of journals that pop up I fear my surmise
about a rather smaller little-magazine scene is correct. -- I suppose I'm
showing my bias here towards journals with a larger critical/review
component--I've always found those most helpful, & certainly when I think of
the journals I often take down off the shelf they usually are salted with
terrific prose pieces--I'm thinking of _Grosseteste Review_ & _Reality
Studios_ for instance. (& the reviews they ran were a lot more interesting
than the meaninglessly positive ones I see in many of the mags that I've
seen recently.)
Yes, Vaughan is a fine poet. Was just digging around to see if I could find
anything here with Aurelian Townshend in it, one of the more interesting
forgotten figures from that period, who wrote a number of good poems that
rather anticipate Marvell. (There's some of his work in Grierson's old
book, & more in Kenner's _Seventeenth-Century Poetry: The Schools of Donne &
Jonson_.) One might also remember Thomas Carew, even if just for the fine
phrase "the blind fate of language" in the Donne elegy.
all best --N
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