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...ALBUM OF MODERN POETRY (3 LPs: Gryphon). Anthologist Oscar Williams has selected 76 short works by 45 British and American poets, a revised and reengineered version of their original readings for the Library of Congress. The album's theme, Williams explains, is suffering and social involvement-"the passion of modern poetry"-rather than personal love. The selection is personal, sometimes questionable, but stellar nonetheless. It includes T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell, W. H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, Robert Graves and Archibald MacLeish, plus many others whose voices will not be heard again, notably William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Theodore Roethke...
...LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST TO LOUIS UNTERMEYER. The anthologist and the poet corresponded for 46 years. Frost did the talking, Untermeyer the prompting, and the result is a wonderful portrait of Frost, with all his crotchets on display...
...LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST TO LOUIS UNTERMEYER. The anthologist and the poet corresponded for 46 years. Frost did the talking, Untermeyer the prompting, and the result is a wonderful portrait of Frost, with all his crotchets on display...
...LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST TO LOUIS UNTERMEYER. The poet and the anthologist corresponded for 46 years. Frost, a man who could not write a note for the milk man without giving it his own distinctive twist, writes over the long years of recurring tragedy in his own family, his endless gripes with little worlds of editors, politicians and educators, his deep distrust of liberalism, and his fierce judgment of his fellow writers...
...edited by U.S. Negro Poet Langston Hughes. Some of the poets are self-consciously primitive, and a few of the English-speaking ones write with echoes of T. S. Eliot or Gerard Manley Hopkins. But they are also busy transcribing and translating traditional folk poetry and evolving what Anthologist Hughes hopefully describes as a literature that "walks with grace and already is beginning to achieve an individuality quite...