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Background

• January 1911-December 1917
• Founded by Piet Vlag
• Illustrated Socialist monthly
• Circulation of about 14,000
• Price increased from 5 cents to 10 cents in February 1912
• Greenwich Village

The Masses (Vol. 10 No. 1/2) New York: The Masses Publishing Co., 1917-11/12

First edited by Thomas Seltzer, Horatio Winslow, and Piet Vlag from 1911-1913.

Followed by Max Eastman and Managing Editor Floyd Dell

Format and Content

• Fiction
• Op-eds
• Ads
• Investigative Journalism
• Political Cartoons
• Poetry

The Masses (Vol. 1 No. 5) | The Masses (Vol. 5, No. 6) 

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AT THE AQUARIUM | MAX EASTMAN

Serene the silver fishes glide,
Stern-lipped, and pale, and wonder-eyed!
As through the aged deeps of ocean,
They glide with wan and wavy motion
They have no pathway where they go,
They flow like water to and fro,
They watch with never-winking eyes,
They watch with staring, cold surprise
The level people in the air,
The people peering peering there:
Who wander also to and fro,
And know not why or where they go
Yet have a wonder in their eyes
Sometimes a pale and cold surprise

Works Cited

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• "The Masses." n.p, The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives. Web. 22 Sept. 2015.
• The Modernist Journals Project (searchable database). Brown and Tulsa Universities, ongoing. http://modjourn.org.
• Untermeyer, Louis. Modern American Poetry. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1919; Bartleby.com, 1999. www.bartleby.com/104/