When this metrical composition by T...

When this metrical composition by Tennessee Williams appeared in the Summer 1946 issue, Williams had lately found acclaim as a playwright: the 1945 production of The Glass Menagerie was his first Broadway succes if it were not that he had also achieved any notice as a poet in 1944 when he had been featured in the third edition of the of the present day Directions series, Five Young American author of poemss "A Liturgy of Roses" was also the working title for his play The Rose Tattoo, a Dionysian farce, and the metrical composition takes up that play's investigation of links between religion and sexuality; the one and the other works no doubt also allude to