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...Aunt"), Sappho probably belongs on the bookshelf rather than the stage. But as a first play, it contains ample evidence that Novelist Durrell could become a major English dramatist, following his recently stated ambition to "explore the vein" of modern verse drama opened by T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden and Christopher Fry, but "in terms of drama not morality plays, of human beings not metaphysics...
Century's Echo. The new poems do not alter the shape of Graves's work, but the appearance of the new collection may help speed the change in critical attitude toward the poet. It is not likely that Graves will ever be ranked with Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Auden and Thomas-poets whom he once declared, with ringing wrongheadedness, to be unworthy of their idolaters. By current critical consensus, his title to the position just below these five is firm, but "below" is not really the word; it is "apart...
...give both these masters a run for their lovely money, and he can sometimes outdistance them in the moods of love and childhood or in evocations of the classic past. He cannot match Pound in the sheer demonic influence of his imagination, or Thomas in his song, or Auden in his topicality-in fact, a comparison will often make Auden sound like the journalist and Graves like the artist. Graves could not have written The Waste Land or The Age of Anxiety, two poems the public eagerly seized as symbols or at least slogans of the times...
...butchered-or merely disenchanted-talents who served an ignoble cause for noble motives. Here again is the sorry drama of betrayed idealism, told piecemeal before but never in such cool, meticulous detail. To André Malraux, who flew in combat, the Republican cause was man's hope. Wystan Auden, who drove an ambulance, melted his prosody...
...promised so much musical surprise: the latest work by the controversial Wunderkind of modern opera, German-born Hans Werner Henze, 34, whose cherubic face and businesslike manner disguise a talent for brazen dissonance, eerie melody and phantasmagorical plots. For good measure, the libretto was by British Poet W. H. Auden and the U.S.'s Chester Kallman, their first since they teamed with Stravinsky on The Rake's Progress a decade...