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...humor. Teeth clenched, he wields the apparatus of slapstick boldly, but draws neither laughs nor blood because his northern variations on 8½ do not lend themselves to pie-in-the-face comedy. Even the most accomplished cinema stylist can scarcely hope, perhaps, to be the Fellini of the frost belt and a Scandinavian Sennett at the same time...
...love. The selection is personal, sometimes questionable, but stellar nonetheless. It includes T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell, W. H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, Robert Graves and Archibald MacLeish, plus many others whose voices will not be heard again, notably William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Theodore Roethke, E. E. Cummings. Robert Frost sounds as homey as a neighbor chatting in the kitchen: Robinson Jeffers, proclaiming that violence is "the bloody sire of all the world's values," has a voice as deep as doom...
Scott's poetry has neither the topical fire of a Robert Lowell nor the flinty edge of fellow New Englander Robert Frost. Neither profound nor powerful, the poet at age 54 writes what he describes in his present volume as verse of "regret"-for lost youth, lost love, lost chances...
...exhibit also includes many of the President's personal effects--his collection of skrimshaw and blackthorn sticks; letters he wrote as a small boy and notes he took during the Cuba missile crisis; his copy of Robert Frost's in a Clearing, inscribed, "I admire you so much I wish I were more of a Democrat than...
...paraphrased translation, which is his main concern. Perhaps it should not be won-not all paraphrases are profanations-but certainly it should be fought. But translators should be reminded that uprooting a masterpiece is not a job to be undertaken lightly ("Poetry is what is lost in translation," Robert Frost once observed); students, for their part, should be warned that a translation must never be read with complete trust...