Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Michigan University last week announced its choice of a successor to Poet Robert Bridges, English Laureate, as incumbent of the Michigan Fellowship in Creative Arts, a chair instituted in 1921 by the late President Marion LeRoy Burton and first filled by Poet Robert Frost. The chosen was Author Jesse Lynch Williams of Manhattan, onetime (1921) President of the Authors' League, Pulitzer Prize winner (1917, for his play, Why Marry?), novelist and short-story writer of the same kindly school as his fellow Princetonian, Booth Tarkington, and his good friend Julian Street. Mr. Williams, a calm, beetle-browed gentleman...
...William G. Frost Berea...
...Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Institute of Modern Literature last week burgeoned forth, with a specialist on every branch and juicy speech-fruit for all the world to cull from the press. In Bowdoin's mellow Memorial Hall, the first to speak was Poet Robert Frost. He read Longfellow's Flight Into Egypt, dwelt a while on his own favorite theme of "vocal imagination" -"Longfellow, you see," said Poet Frost, "used no figures of speech. Our poets today, a lot of them, are metaphor-crackers. They crack metaphors as other people crack jokes"-and concluded...
MEMOIRS OF THE NOTORIOUS STEPHEN BURROUGHS-Dial Press ($4.00). The serviceable custodian of New England's fame, Poet Robert Frost, has called attention to Stephen Burroughs, contemporary of Aaron Burr, whose transgressions, if not in the grand manner of a national betrayal, were much more profuse and persistent than those with which Burr is credited...
...ensure comfort in old age. The rhetorical, mock-modest manner of his memoirs, which he published to a wide audience in 1811, indicate the complete hypocrite -a varlet of guile and gusto to whom a naive generation quite naturally credited unnatural sins and the comradeship of Satan. Poet Frost, in a preface to the reissued memoirs, would place Burroughs beside Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin to complete the evidence that our young country grew all kinds of fine flowers...