Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...complete surprise of students in Humanities 6, poet Robert Frost appeared yesterday to give an extensive reading of his poems...
After entering Longfellow Hall for a regularly scheduled lecture, students realized something unusual was happening when they spotted television cameras in the room. Part of Frost's appearance will be televised by NBC on November 11th. Publicizing the contents of a lecture is unprecedented in Harvard's history. The past, University tradition has decreed that what takes place in a class is solely the business of the teacher and his students...
Beuben A. Brower, professor of English and instructor of Hum 6, had Frost for a teacher at Amherst College. They have been friendly ever since. Frost, who is now living in Cambridge, learned that Hum 6 is covering his poems and asked Brower if he could speak about them to the class...
...popular-next to Robert Frost, by far the most popular contemporary U.S. poet. He won prizes, including the 1957 Bollingen, America's highest award for poetry. He was delightfully unpredictable. There was Cummings the crazy syntactical iconoclast who rarely used capital letters and recklessly (often unintelligibly) strewed syllables, commas and other gimcracks around the page. On the next page, though, he would turn up as a solemn, sonnet-writing traditionalist-or as Cummings the dreadful punster ("honey swoRkey mollypants"), or the pseudo pornographer happily smirking from the decks of his ship, the S.S. Van Merde: "May i feel said...
...World War I Ambulance Driver Cummings' precise account of prison camp life. Through most of all this, he continued to sound like a young poet alternately angry or moonstruck. It was an enormous limitation, and it made it easy to enumerate what he lacked that such poets as Frost and Eliot and Pound abundantly had. But it also led to Cummings' unique satirical and lyrical achievement, which caused Critic Allen Tate last week to declare that Cummings "had no superiors in his generation...