Word: home
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many Americans who are harassed by an almost total lack of disadvantages. She has: a genteel Southern education, a husband (Raymond Holden, verse-writing novelist and Book-of-the-Month Club editor), an imaginary small son (who, in This My Letter, is good for 14 sonnets), a home in the metropolis (with a farm in the offing), a poetry-prize (for her first book, Field of Honor, now in its third edition), an entree to radio studios, lecture platforms and the pages of some 25 periodicals (from the American Girl to the Atlantic Monthly)-all crowned with a face...
...being alive in his native State of Maine. There he summers on either of two farms, coastal or freshwater, winters as an English professor at Bowdoin in Brunswick. In all his books Coffin tries to bear witness that poetry, or at least his kind of poetry, begins at home. "Poetry," to Coffin, "is saying the best one can about life." In his early work Coffin tried to say his best about life by loading his lines with mythological, chivalric, floral and religious references. But he soon came under the influence of Robert Frost (TIME, May 15), whose work helped...
Cows are coming home in Maine...
Under the nighthawks, high and strange, Through beauty which is almost pain, Through wild juniper by the sea, The cows are coming home in Maine. Such lines, like the rest of Coffin's better verse, will make readers feel that they are being offered complimentary tickets to a prettier world than their daily one. Unfortunately these tickets give admission to no world, but only to the Maine-strewn inside of Coffin's curly head...
...Home to the village on a litter of branches, torn...