Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Samuel Eliot Morison '08, and Robert Frost, noted New England poet, were Harvard's two winners of Pulitzer Prizes for 1942 as announced in New York yesterday. Morison was selected for his biography of Columbus while Frost was singled out for his volume of poetry entailed "A Witness Tree...
Another directorate of Morrison's is that of the annual Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, a literary group that meets the last two weeks of August at Bread Loaf Inn near Middlebury, Vermont, to criticize and discuss each other's poems, short stories, articles, and novels. Louis Untermeyer, Robert Frost, and Bernard De Voto are on the staff. Morrison has himself published several volumes of verse, including "Serpent in the Cloud," 1931, and "Notes on Life and Death...
COME IN AND OTHER POEMS-Robert Frost-Henry Holt...
Editor Louis Untermeyer has made a sound selection of 83 poems from Robert Frost's seven published volumes. Frost has long tried to write poetry like the living speech of men & women. He has succeeded: of all distinctive U.S. poets, the New England laureate is perhaps the least mystifying. But Editor Untermeyer feels that Frost's readers will profit by added interpretations and comment. Sample...
...posturing that is the curse of most Negro versifiers. In this, her first book, she writes with civilized simplicity and dignity about the humanity of her people. The effect, whether in her psalmlike lyrics, her stark ballads or her biting sonnets, is often solemn and beautiful, like a black frost in the deep South...