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These cultists often display unconcealed, and somewhat exaggerated, contempt for entertaining groups like the Kingston Trio and the Limeliters. Folk singing is a religion, in the purists' lexicon, and the big corporate trios are its money-changing De Milles. The high pantheon is made up of all the shiftless geniuses who have shouted the songs of their forebears into tape recorders provided by the Library of Congress. These country "authentics...
ITALIAN JOURNEY (508 pp.)-J. W. Goe-fhe, translated by W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer-Pantheon...
...BARTHOLOMEW'S NIGHT (285 pp.) -Philippe Erlanger-Pantheon...
...DANCER IN DARKNESS (247 pp.)-David Stacton-Pantheon...
...anger or tribute trace his lyrical journey through its mysteries. After his death, poets and critics were quick to speak of him as "the greatest innovator in modern poetry," as a man who perfected "the idiom of American common speech." Some placed him beside Thoreau and Whitman in "the pantheon of American letters." Cummings would have disliked the portentous phrase. He was not the sort of artist who can easily be put in any resounding literary hierarchy...