The Commonweal

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Title:	The Commonweal
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First renewed issue:	February 6, 1942 (v. 35 no. 16); see 1970
First renewed contribution in:	October 28, 1931; see 1958 July-December

Renewed contributions

This includes all active contribution renewals through 1956. It might not show all renewals past that date.

October 28, 1931: "Too Many Breadlines", by Louis Adamic [Permissions]
April 3, 1936: "Out of November", by David Thompson Watson McCord
March 17, 1939: "It Was Like Sunday", by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
July 7, 1939: "Far Trees Keep Up", by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
September 29, 1939: "Fair-Feeling", by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
December 19, 1941: "Incarnation and Parousia", by H. A. Reinhold
March 27, 1942: "A Skirmish", by Franz Werfel
April 3, 1942: "Put Out More Flags", by Evelyn Waugh [Permissions]
June 12, 1942: "Episode Seven", by Theodore Roethke [Permissions]
October 30, 1942: "Mundus et Infans", by W. H. Auden [Permissions]
December 25, 1942: "Blue-Eyed Lady", by Ferenc Molnár [Permissions]
January 15, 1943: "Parousia", by H. A. Reinhold
November 10, 1944: "The Trouble", by J. F. Powers [Permissions]
August 17, 1945: "Vision", by Witter Bynner [Permissions]
December 20, 1946: "Methopolis", by W. H. Auden [Permissions] (Title as given in CCE renewal record. Bloomfield and Mendelson's bibliography of Auden gives title as 'Metropolis'. I have not examined the issue in question. This is an extract from the book 'The Age of Anxiety', which was published in 1947 and had its copyright renewed in 1974.)
November 19, 1948: "Poetry and the Public", by T. S. Eliot [Permissions]
September 30, 1949: "On the Christian Message", by François Mauriac [Permissions]
February 3, 1950: "Christian and the World", by François Mauriac [Permissions]
March 17, 1950: "Lent in Focus", by H. A. Reinhold
March 31, 1950: "Self Denial and the Christians", by Thomas Merton [Permissions]
April 18, 1952: "Poems", by Thomas Merton [Permissions] (Renewal record is for poems published in this issue and in the December 26, 1952 issue. The record does not give titles for the poems.)
December 26, 1952: "Poems", by Thomas Merton [Permissions] (Renewal record is for poems published in this issue and in the April 18, 1952 issue. The record does not give titles for the poems.)
December 11, 1953: "Sensibility, Psychology and a Passion for Analysis", by Gerald Weales
January 22, 1954: "Furtive Marks on Paper", by Gerald Weales
April 2, 1954: "Down South", by Gerald Weales
October 22, 1954: "Such Comradeship as Shames the Day", by Jessamyn West [Permissions]
December 3, 1954: "Morning in Wales", by Dylan Thomas [Permissions]
March 4, 1955: "The Spirit of Lent", by H. A. Reinhold
March 25, 1955: "Reality, Art and Prayer", by Thomas Merton [Permissions]
May 27, 1955: "Mister Maugham on the Novel", by Gerald Weales
August 26, 1955: "Life on Madison Avenue", by Gerald Weales
October 21, 1955: "Varieties of Innocence", by Gerald Weales
December 23, 1955: "Christmas: Anno Domini 1955", by H. A. Reinhold
December 23, 1955: "Poems (unnamed); A Prelude for the Feast of Saint Agnes", by Thomas Merton [Permissions]
December 30, 1955: "See Venice and Die", by Gerald Weales
February 10, 1956: "Zeal", by J. F. Powers [Permissions]
April 20, 1956: "A Perceptive Report on Varied Cultures", by Gerald Weales
June 8, 1956: "A Victorian Court of Love", by Gerald Weales
June 29, 1956: "Not Foreigners, Yet Foreign", by Ivan Illich [Permissions]
July 20, 1956: "Learned, Crochety Account of English Poetry", by Gerald Weales ('Crochety' spelled as in renewal record.)
August 3, 1956: "Religious Approaches: Catholic and Protestant", by Aelred Graham
October 5, 1956: "Next Week 'Anne Leete'", by Gerald Weales
December 28, 1956: "The Treasure of Christmas", by H. A. Reinhold
January 18, 1957: "The World in Thurber's Fables", by Gerald Weales
March 15, 1957: "Two Homilies for Mark Van Doren", by Ned O'Gorman
April 26, 1957: "A Modest Mound of Bones", by John Updike [Permissions]
May 24, 1957: "On Turning the Page of a Jeweled Book", by Ned O'Gorman
June 7, 1957: "Ode III.ii: Horace", by John Updike [Permissions]
July 12, 1957: "Plays and Analysis", by Gerald Weales
August 9, 1957: "Material for Satiric Comment", by Gerald Weales
September 20, 1957: "Colman the Hermit", by Phyllis McGinley
October 11, 1957: "Behind the Mask", by Gerald Weales
October 25, 1957: "Columba the Abbott", by Phyllis McGinley
December 20, 1957: "The Ingredients", by Gerald Weales
February 7, 1958: "Unfashionable Optimist", by Gerald Weales
June 27, 1958: "Caligula's Dream", by John Updike [Permissions]
June 27, 1958: "Politics of the Academy", by Gerald Weales
September 26, 1958: "America Recit", by Gerald Weales
October 3, 1958: "The Young O'Neill", by Gerald Weales
October 24, 1958: "Poetry and Contemplation", by Thomas Merton [Permissions]
October 24, 1958: "Poetry and Contemplation: Essay", by Thomas Merton [Permissions] (This is a separate renewal from the one for 'Poetry and Contemplation' above.)
November 28, 1958: "A Charmed Life", by Gerald Weales
May 15, 1959: "Variation on an O'Neill Theme", by Gerald Weales
July 17, 1959: "The Ross Mystery, Who was Harold, What was He?", by Gerald Weales
September 25, 1959: "Box Office and the Muse", by Gerald Weales
October 16, 1959: "Reading Dante With Ionians", by Ned O'Gorman
April 29, 1960: "The Film Writer", by Gerald Weales
October 14, 1960: "Poor Dad", by Gerald Weales
March 31, 1961: "Shaw on Music", by Gerald Weales
May 12, 1961: "The Ox Mountain Parable of Meng Tzo", by Thomas Merton [Permissions]
June 2, 1961: "Maples in a Spruce Forest", by John Updike [Permissions]
June 2, 1961: "Reader to Rider", by Gerald Weales
August 25, 1961: "The Search for Ibsen", by Richard Gilman
September 22, 1961: "England's Finest Hours on the Television Screen", by Gerald Weales
September 22, 1961: "An Elegy for Ernest Hemingway", by Thomas Merton [Permissions]
October 13, 1961: "Beckett's Happy Days", by Richard Gilman
October 20, 1961: "Win, Place & Show", by Richard Gilman
October 27, 1961: "Straightforward Mystification", by Richard Gilman
November 24, 1961: "Mixture Almost as Before", by Richard Gilman
December 1, 1961: "Paddy's Big Daddy", by Richard Gilman
December 22, 1961: "Reflections at Midterm", by Richard Gilman
December 29, 1961: "Bad Connection", by Richard Gilman
January 12, 1962: "A Note on Ennoblement", by Richard Gilman
January 26, 1962: "Williams as Phoenix", by Richard Gilman
February 9, 1962: "Nuclear War and Christian Responsibility", by Thomas Merton [Permissions]
February 16, 1962: "The Trouble with Strindberg", by Richard Gilman
February 16, 1962: "The Many-Roomed Mind of Jean-Louis Barrault", by Gerald Weales
March 2, 1962: "Sow's Ears of Silk Purses", by Richard Gilman
March 23, 1962: "The Special Quality of Joan", by Richard Gilman
March 30, 1962: "A Dirty, Well-Lighted Place", by Richard Gilman
April 6, 1962: "The Absurd and the Foolish", by Richard Gilman
May 11, 1962: "The Drawing Room and Beyond", by Richard Gilman
June 8, 1962: "Die? I Thought I'd Laugh!", by Richard Gilman
June 29, 1962: "End of Season, a Love Letter", by Richard Gilman
August 10, 1962: "The Graveyard: Rabat", by Ned O'Gorman
October 12, 1962: "Two Ways of Looking at Brecht", by Richard Gilman
October 26, 1962: "When Words Fail", by Richard Gilman
November 9, 1962: "Bush", by Richard Gilman
November 16, 1962: "When the Real Things Comes Along", by Richard Gilman (Title spelled as in CCE record.)
November 30, 1962: "Flirt", by John Updike [Permissions]
December 28, 1962: "Pinter's Hits--and Misses", by Richard Gilman
January 18, 1963: "Bert Lahr, the Cavalry Arrives", by Richard Gilman
February 8, 1963: "Mistuh Williams, He Dead", by Richard Gilman
February 8, 1963: "The Lesson of Skybolt", by Ronald Steel
February 22, 1963: "How to Succeed in Business Without Thinking About Money", by Walker Percy
March 29, 1963: "Novelists in the Theater", by Richard Gilman
April 5, 1963: "Shaw and Lawrence", by Gerald Weales
April 12, 1963: "Between Anger and Despair", by Richard Gilman
April 19, 1963: "Pirandello to Perfection", by Richard Gilman
April 26, 1963: "Orchids for Miss Hightower", by Wilfrid Sheed
April 26, 1963: "A Timid Mother Courage", by Richard Gilman
April 26, 1963: "The Disintegrating Alliance", by Ronald Steel
May 24, 1963: "The Artist as Blimp", by Wilfrid Sheed
May 31, 1963: "View from the East", by Richard Gilman
June 7, 1963: "The Risks of Action", by Richard Gilman
June 14, 1963: "Erotic Epigrams", by John Updike [Permissions]
October 11, 1963: "Earliest Ionesco", by Richard Gilman
November 1, 1963: "A Baroque Gravure", by Thomas Merton [Permissions] (Renewal record places this in 'Commonweal 79'. I presume that merely reflects the volume number for this issue.)
November 15, 1963: "A Hit and a Success", by Richard Gilman
December 6, 1963: "Weep No More for Brecht", by Richard Gilman

Additional notes

A 1985 renewal record for the 1957 book 'Frontiers in American Catholicism' by Walter J. Ong mentions that some of its essays had previously been published in Commonweal and in Thought. The essays are not identified, but this renewal might cover essays of his published in this magazine in 1957 that are not mentioned above.

A 1985 renewal record for the 1957 book 'Strange Islands' by Thomas Merton mentions that some of its poems had previously been published in Commonweal and other magazines. The poems are not identified, but this renewal might cover poems of his published in this magazine in 1957 that are not mentioned above.

With the possible exceptions given in these notes, all renewals for contributions published before 1964 (when automatic renewals began) are represented in the listing above. Some additional renewals were also filed for contributions published in 1964 or later.

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