Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best for them," but he hated "the Old Guard minds" among Republicans and became one of Adlai Stevenson's top campaign writers. He said that Ernest Hemingway's characters were "anthropoids," that those of Dos Passes were "diminished marionettes." He cham pioned Pareto, James Farrell and Robert Frost, denounced Van Wyck Brooks, Thomas Wolfe and practically everyone else. Of modern Western women he said: "I should like to call them buxom, deep-breasted, strong-thewed, fit to be mates and mothers of big men. Mathematics forbids; too high a percentage of them are just fat. They must...
Philistines. Instead, Lannan launched a thousand VIPs in a Poetry-saving drive He persuaded Robert Frost to come to Chicago to read his poetry as a prelude to a $50-a-plate champagne supper and literary auction this week, then lined up guests and sponsors to pay for the supper so that all the receipts would go to Poetry. He ran afoul of a few Philistines. Publisher Bennett Cerf refused to kick in declaring roundly that "Poetry is dead " but when Lannan let that be known among the literati, Cerf came around. Louis Untermeyer thought the whole idea vulgar...
Wordsworth's greatness came from his application of inspired imagination to instances and situations in the story of common life; in the modern period Frost and sometimes Eliot have also used this device with much success, Muir asserted in his talk on "Wordsworth: A Return to the Sources," the second of three lectures on the estate of poetry...
...professorship is held annually by an individual of distinguished achievement in the fine arts. Last year the position remained unfilled when none of those invited were able to accept. Past holders include T. S. Eliot, Thornton Wilder, e. e. cummings, Robert Frost, Igor Stravinsky, Paul Hindemith, and Aaron Copland...
...other poetry in Paris Review 10 is not on a par with "Sequence In Venice." Adrienne Cecile Rich's "The Tree" states a Frost-like theme (silent, unresponsive nature capable of instilling fear, frustration and solace in man) with a disappointing lack of economy. "The Ballad of Mother and Son" by Wilfred Watson contains some rather wild metaphors which are utterly mystifying. "I saw God like a trout in a creek" probably means that the speaker had a flashing glimpse of God, but "trout," "creek," and "God like a trout" seem extraneous and forced, if not totally meaningless. The other...