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After the mildest winter in years, the sun was shining and frost was fast disappearing. G.I.s, on the slopes of fortified hills, watched the valley's floors for signs that the earth is firm enough to bear a major offensive's weight...
...Optimist. Edwin Arlington Robinson was the only sizable poet the U.S. had between Emily Dickinson and the poetic renaissance around World War I sparked by Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters. Robinson found the poetic landscape "flowing with milk and water." He injected the gall & wormwood of realism. In general, he celebrated the individual, not by tracking the footprints of great men, but by tracing the soul-prints of weak ones. The Miniver Cheevys, the Richard Corys, the fumblers, the failures, the souses were not freaks to him but symbols of man's suffering...
...George Frost Kennan...
...Short Walk there is a new McGinley, not only warmer but better, a suburban Frost who shows all the signs of trying to slip unobtrusively from light verse into homely poetry...
Skilng, for the novice, is still the one sport in which the participant invariably becomes battered, bruised, and frost-bitten, possibly breaks a leg or two, and still enjoys it. The more experienced participant does not undergo quite so much physical punishment, but--at Harvard--he makes up for a lot of it with mental anguish...