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Adrienne Rich '51 of Baltimore, Maryland, is the winner of the 1950 Yale Series of Younger Poets award, W. H. Auden, Poet and editor of the Series, announced yesterday...
...your appraisal of Robert Frost you say "other contemporary poets have had greater influence-T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden...
...Frost is a poet with few disciples. Today's bright young men look to the intricate, mannered, literary methods of T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden for their models. They grudgingly admire Frost as a kind of 19th Century relic, resent his commanding popularity, and smart under the reproach: "If Frost can make himself intelligible...
Other contemporary poets have had greater influence-T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden. Each, in various measure, has more accurately expressed the fashionable tumults and shoutings of their time. Many of those tumults Frost has simply ignored. But when the time itself has passed into history, it may appear that Robert Frost, quarrying away at the granite of his New England mind, has chosen the more durable material...
...Tristram Shandy's garrulous Uncle Toby-a "vast, benevolent and harmless Uncle Toby, leaning on his stick . . . and wheezing out his stories of Henry James as Toby might have spoken of Marlborough. His books seemed [to us] like medals achieved, perhaps, in the Crimea; and we read Auden, Kafka, Evelyn Waugh...