Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Praise the Lord; you have lately "passed up" the ammunition twice in praise of poets -Robert Frost and Christopher Fry. Why not name one as Man of the Year ? FRED K. BREWSTER St. Louis...
Seldom has a TIME story evoked such an enthusiastic response as our October 9 cover story on Poet Robert Frost. In this space and in the Letters section we have already told you something about this reaction-not only to the story itself but also to Boris Chaliapin's cover portrait. Concerning the latter, a college English professor has written us: "Boris Chaliapin has caught the essential things we have learned to revere about the poet: birches, a wall, a running brook, and above all, the searching friendliness of his eyes...
Died. Julia Marlowe (real name: Sarah Frances Frost), 84, for almost four decades (1887-1924) one of the brightest stars of the American stage; in Manhattan. Born in northern England of farmer stock, she moved to Kansas with her family at five, played her first stage part in Cincinnati at twelve, reached Broadway stardom in 1887. Best known for her warm, throaty "Juliet" and "Ophelia," she toured the U.S. for years with her husband, famed Actor E. H. Sothern ("Sothern & Marlowe"), made Shakespeare a big box-office attraction. She retired in 1924, lived in seclusion at Manhattan's Plaza...
From them he moves into a complete consideration of the twentieth century poetic "renaissance," through Amy Lowell and the Imagists, the free-moving Chicago group, the isolated and tragic figures of Hart Crane and Robinson Jeffers, to the culmination of our modern verse in the opposed figures of Robert Frost and T. S. Eliot. In the contradictory excellencies both in form and content of these two poets, Matthiessen characteristically finds an analogy to the confused age in which they write...
...Robert Frost story makes us remember-if we had forgotten it-that there live in the United States, close beside famed businessmen, generals and cinema actors, men who are still able to enjoy woods and grey, snowy skies...