Word: frosted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Frederick Ridgely Torrence, 75, poet (Hesperides) and playwright (Plays for a Negro Theatre), whose rare, carefully polished verses made him a reputation as one of the best craftsmen among 20th Century U.S. poets; in Manhattan. Fellow Poet Robert Frost wrote in A Passing Glimpse: To Ridgely Torrence, On Last Looking into His "Hesperides...
...even less first-rate literary criticism. Newton Arvin's Herman Melville was the best critical study of the year, brief, intelligent and splendidly informed; Edmund Wilson's Classics and Commercials was a good, stimulating collection of minor pieces by the best of U.S. working critics. Poet Robert Frost was much honored, but no poetry was published that promised a likely successor to him. Carl Sandburg's Complete Poems contained 72 newly collected ones that showed the same minstrel's virtues and poetic limitations of his earliest work...
...Baltimore, Poet Robert Frost was asked why he liked to write eclogues, said: "Well, I guess I write 'em same as I chew tobacco, because the women...
These qualities were also discernible to the authorities of Dartmouth and Amherst colleges, who asked, simultaneously, if they could have the original cover painting. Each college has a special interest in Frost. Both have extensive collections of Frostiana. Frost has been a fellow at Dartmouth and an English professor at Amherst, where he is now a lecturer in literature. Naturally, lie has many personal friends at both colleges...
These twin requests posed an obvious dilemma. We could not very well give one painting to two colleges. We finally decided that the only solution of the problem was to ask Chaliapin to do another Frost portrait as nearly like the "original original" as possible. It has been completed, and the two paintings will be presented soon to the two colleges, which plan to place them on permanent display. Only Chaliapin will know which college got the original original - and only if they are set side by side will anyone be able to tell them apart...