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...Nehru loved, to the cotton fields around Ahmadnagar Fort, where he had been imprisoned by the British. It was now clear that Nehru had known for months that he lived close to death. On a scratch pad on his desk, Nehru had neatly written the elegiac lines of Robert Frost...
...Astruc should have been concentrating on the road as he drove along the icy edge of the Lot River in southwestern France. But Astruc is a spelunker, always on the lookout for potholes to pop into. To him, the little frost-free spot he saw in a limestone cliff suggested a cave entrance that had become plugged up. He stopped to probe the spot with a crowbar. Stones and dirt caved in; warm air whooshed out. Suddenly Astruc was staring into a narrow tunnel. "I was alone," he says, "afraid to go in very far, or stay very long...
...sail home and finish her book, The Group. The Y's famed Poetry Center is like that. There Dylan Thomas wrote the final lines of Under Milk Wood, barely in time to hand them to Y actors who were giving the play its first group reading. Robert Frost made an annual pilgrimage for ten years. Britain's T. S. Eliot made it a top stop. So have scores of other writers -Robert Graves, Thomas Mann, E. E. Cummings, Joyce Cary, Wallace Stevens, Aldous Huxley, Marianne Moore, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, John Cheever. The Budapest String Quartet first thrived...
...Spears book cannot be classified with the kind of critical biography Richard Ellman achieved in his brilliant "Yeats--the Man and the Masks," it equally fails to react with the alive sensitivity to the poetry itself that Reuben Brower demonstrates in "The Poetry of Robert Frost--Constellations of Intention." Spears has just as many cross-references as Brower, and he seems to know the poetry, just as well. But criticism of poetry, if it isn't dynamic and fascinating, makes some of the stickiest, dullest reading on the shelf. His cataloguing approach to Auden overwhelms Spears' writing from time...
THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). The week's events are lampooned by David Frost, Nancy Ames, Henry Morgan and others...