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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like most poets, Welshman Dylan Thomas can't afford to think of poetry as a living. To eke out his own, he does what he can in other writing fields. And he is certainly among the few living poets, not to mention scenario writers, who could successfully have written The Doctor and the Devils, the screenplay for a new British film.* Published as a book, his script combines some of the best virtues of fiction and drama. What is just as important, Poet Thomas remains a poet while doing a job that most highbrow poets would pooh-pooh, unless...
Normally it would be outdated to comment on the appointment now, since it was made several weeks ago. But because most papers, in line with their "Ike can do no wrong" policy, made no issue of it, it badly deserves mention...
Cossio does not mention his chief innovation: a purely arbitrary use of perspective to create a crackling composition that shines, in Poet Gerard Manley Hopkins' phrase, like "shook foil." By his practice of boldness within bounds, Cossio may be opening a new chapter in the history of ecclesiastical...
...very interested to read your Aug. 24 article on the Magnet and illustrations from it. I used to follow the adventures of Billy Bunter, as well as all the others you mention, for many years before I came to Canada in 1925 . . . but during the war I lost touch with such mundane matters. Although I am older than the oldest number of the Magnet, your story has brought back a desire to see for myself just what Bunter & Co. are doing...
Last week Pressagent Little dispatched a second letter begging editors to ask readers to stop sending him crows. Emboldened by his first success, this time he managed to mention Old Crow not once but twice, has already got it printed in several newspapers...