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February, once a word of ill-omen, should be an adjective of gloom, just as Shakespeare once used it, in Much Ado About Nothing: "Why, what's the matter that you have such a February face, so full of frost, of storm, of cloudiness...
...America going to let Russia buy time in this manner...while we, paraphrasing Robert Frost, "sit back on our fundamental butt with our nose in the air and our eyes shut...
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...