Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 83, friend and biographer of two U.S. literary pillars (Willa Gather: A Memoir; Robert Frost: The Trial by Existence), among whose reminiscences were Gather's abject chagrin at Henry James's polite refusal to read her novels and Frost's nagging suspicion that his wife was his intellectual superior; in Manhattan...
...stirred a furor by awarding the initial prize to Ezra Pound,* the list of Bollingen winners has amounted to a virtual roll call of U.S. poetic merit. Among them: Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, William Carlos Williams, Theodore Roethke. After the 1962 award to Robert Frost, the frequency of the prize was cut to every two years, but the prize money doubled to $5,000. Now the first poet to win the enriched Bollingen has been announced: the relatively unknown Horace Gregory...
SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST, edited by Lawrance Thompson. The nation's late "poet laureate" was too complicated a man to take full shape through this correspondence alone, but it is a thorough and delightful selection and promises much for Editor Thompson's forthcoming official biography...
Reuben A. Brower, professor of English, has received of award for the best book of literary analysis published in 1963. The winning book. The Poetry of Robert Frost, was chosen for its excellence in "word-by-word, line-by-line analysis" of English or Americans literature by a University of South Carolina magazine...
SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST, edited by Lawrance Thompson. The nation's late "poet laureate" was too complicated a man to take full shape through this correspondence alone, but it is a thorough and delightful selection and promises much for Editor Thompson's official biography due next year...