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...DUKE: BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE & ACHIEVEMENTS OF ARTHUR WELLESLEY, 1st DUKE OF WELLINGTON -Richard Aldington-Viking...
...clear and casual as The New Yorker's, though wittier. Louis MacNeice published his collected poems ($2.50). The one durable translation was Robert Fitzgerald's Oedipus at Colonus ($1.50), which made clear that Sophocles was not, as other translations suggest, an unsuccessful Victorian imitator of Shakespeare. Richard Aldington's The Viking Book of Poetry ($3.50) was the year's best anthology...
...Viking Book of Poetry (Viking; $3.50), compiled by Richard Aldington, is, by & large, the best compendious poetry anthology in the English language. Less elegant than Palgrave's Golden Treasury, less aristocratic than Quiller-Couch's Oxford Book of English Verse, it is bigger around the waist than they are, represents in its format and arrangement a superb job of publishing. Anthologist Aldington, in making his selections from the entire body of English and American poetry, tries less to hit a poetical bull's-eye than a poetical barn door. His misses are few. All the great...
...Richard Aldington: "It is typical high-brow delusion to suppose that authors influence anyone but the intellectuals and that intellectuals count for anything in the formation of national policy and the state of the mass mind. Most people in America have never heard of the writers MacLeish mentions and could not have been influenced by them. Most intellectuals make rotten soldiers anyway, so their defection is of small importance - supposing the defection exists...
...Disturbed by undergraduate pacifism. Yaleman Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress, accused the writers of his own generation (Ernest Hemingway, Walter Millis, John Dos Passos, Richard Aldington, et al.) of disarming the U. S. Said he (at a convention of the American Association for Adult Education in Manhattan): "The moral and spiritual unpreparedness of the country is worse than its unpreparedness in arms. . . . The effect [of these authors' books] has been to immunize the young generation against any attempt in its own country by its own leaders to foment a war by waving moral flags and rhetorical phrases. But they...