Word: coffined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frank Baum, the man who hit the literary jackpot many years ago writing nice unpretentious stories about a little girl named Dorothy, must be doing more than his share of acrobatics in his coffin these days. For M.G.M. has screened his "immortal classic," the "Wizard of Oz," as only M.G.M. can. With a sort of inverted Midas touch, they have turned fabulous amounts of gold into one of the most imposing pictures of the season. Of course, Frank Baum has been rather left out of things in the process and a strong aroma of Walt Disney drifts out from...
COLLECTED POEMS-Robert P. Tristram Coffin-Macmillan...
Countrified. Weaver's citified verse offers the general public food for self-pity. The countrified verse of Maine-coast-man Robert P. Tristram Coffin offers it food for self-satisfaction. Those who read verse because they have an appetite for such food will enjoy reading Coffin's Collected Poems. Into the book Coffin has put some 250 lyrics and ballads, previously published in eight books and in 46 low, high-and medium-browed magazines; and he gives them a dramatic send-off with a 13-page preface in which he modestly blesses himself for being a good poet...
Probably the most wonderful thing in the world, to Coffin, is his being alive in his native State of Maine. There he summers on either of two farms, coastal or freshwater, winters as an English professor at Bowdoin in Brunswick. In all his books Coffin tries to bear witness that poetry, or at least his kind of poetry, begins at home. "Poetry," to Coffin, "is saying the best one can about life." In his early work Coffin tried to say his best about life by loading his lines with mythological, chivalric, floral and religious references. But he soon came under...
Under the nighthawks, high and strange, Through beauty which is almost pain, Through wild juniper by the sea, The cows are coming home in Maine. Such lines, like the rest of Coffin's better verse, will make readers feel that they are being offered complimentary tickets to a prettier world than their daily one. Unfortunately these tickets give admission to no world, but only to the Maine-strewn inside of Coffin's curly head...