John Hollander's "Glaucon and ...

John Hollander's "Glaucon and the Moon" appeared in the Winter 1958 issue and was common of the earliest-written poems in the poet's first volume A Crackling of Thorns. HOLLANDER explains to what extent it came about:

"Glaucon and the Moon" is single in kind of a series of short lyrics that I'd originally written while at community at about 19. My head was replete of Yeats's late poetry, and their sometimes slant rhyming and something of their diction crept into these. As l fiddled with them from one side of to the other the next few years - and as I grew more distant from the ill-defined state (with value to ...