Word: poems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rene Tillich's short story "Point of View" and Ralph Hickock's poem "Song" are the two best pieces in the first issue of Voices. James Hill and Eleanor Kester both contribute some good poetry, although the bank-clerk-and-pin-collar ghost of T.S. Eliot appears to haunt Hill and most of the Voices poets...
Ransom himself gave a reading in Sanders Theatre Thursday night which included tragic poems, nonsense poems, and a Harvard poem. He was introduced by William Y. Elliott, director of the Summer School and himself a Fugitive, who noted that Ransom "made all literature live, because it was something that he himself lived...
...metaphysical commitment," he continued, "a poet goes into fantasies." He read the humorous "Captain Carpenter," and some nonsense poems: "Our Two Worthies," "Her Eyes,"--a "vindictive" poem about a woman who "came to our house too much" and "was taller than I,"--and the "Survey of Literature...
...concluded with "Prelude to an Evening" and "Painted Head," and at the audience's request, he read a poem he had first written for a Harvard Phi Beta Kappa convocation...
After another warm introduction, Ransom read his "Autumn Harvests," called by Tate "the finest poem ever to come out of the South...