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According to Auden's Law, most of the plays of Thornton Wilder are a poor source for operatic material: deliberately unsensational, they often deal with lives that are determinedly sensible. But last week audiences in Mannheim, Germany, saw Wilder's one-act play, The Long Christmas Dinner, successfully transformed into opera by that master craftsman of contemporary music-Composer Paul Hindemith...
...with the 1961 fellowship of the Academy of American Poets. A fulltime writer since a 1960 illness ended his 26-year teaching career at New York's Sarah Lawrence College, the Milwaukee-born poet reported "surprise" at his selection by a panel of other poets, including W. H. Auden and Marianne Moore. On the $5,000 that goes with the award, Gregory offered no direct comment, but in Medusa in Cramercy Park and Other Poems, his sixth verse collection, which was published last week, he wrote...
Contrived and perverse as it is, Firbank's world seems curiously real. Poet-Critic Wystan Auden argues that Firbank's enchanted literary garden is really a "picture of the Earthly Paradise," where everything is pure fun because all are pure. Moral judgments do not apply to Firbank's innocents any more than to the characters in Through the Looking Glass. A police dog with baby-blue eyes is baptized in white crème de menthe. Why not? "Where all are innocent, what difference is there between a dog and a baby...
...Author Barzun's own wares in the sweetshop include paperback editions of five of his books. He is also a director (along with Fellow Intellectuals Lionel Trilling and W. H. Auden) of the Mid-Century Book Society, a kind of egghead's book-of-the-month club...