1925 The Measure Margaret Mead Louise Bogan First Appearance John Crowe Ransom

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Original June 1925 issue of The Measure: A Journal of Poetry featuring an unusually strong group of contributors, including Margaret Mead, Louise Bogan, John Crowe Ransom, Léonie Adams, and others. This issue is especially notable for two significant early literary appearances: Margaret Mead — “For a Proud Lady” Louise Bogan — “The Flume” Bogan’s The Flume was first published in this June 1925 issue of The Measure and was later collected in her 1929 book Dark Summer. Margaret Mead’s For a Proud Lady is also an important early publication. The Library of Congress includes it in Mead’s 1925 bibliography, years before she became internationally famous for Coming of Age in Samoa. Contents Louise Bogan — “The Flume” John Crowe Ransom — “Proud Heart Rained Upon” Anne Singleton — “Counsel for Autumn” Anne Singleton — “Burial” Anne Singleton — “Preference” Eda Lou Walton — “Wind Fear” Katherine Newton — “Perspective” Margaret Mead — “For a Proud Lady” Léonie Adams — “On Proprieties in Sphinxes” Notable Contributors Margaret Mead became one of the most influential anthropologists of the 20th century. Her poetry is much less commonly encountered than her anthropological writing, making this 1925 appearance especially interesting to collectors of anthropology, women’s intellectual history, and early Mead material. Louise Bogan became an important American poet and critic and later served for decades as poetry critic for The New Yorker. This issue contains the first publication of “The F

• Year: 1925
• Condition: Very Good

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