Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sued for Divorce. William Ellery Leonard, 60, poet (Two Lives), longtime professor at the University of Wisconsin; by Mrs. Grace Golden Leonard. 28, his third wife; in Madison, Wis. Grounds: cruelty. Celebrated for his distance-phobia, he would not travel more than five blocks from his house...
...persona grata to two opposing parties: Yankees who never touch poetry and poetry-bibbers who shy at Yankees. For Robert Frost has a foot in both camps. New Englanders who pride themselves on their conservative shrewdness and rock-bound individualism think they recognize him as one of themselves; and poets know he is a poet. His prosiest lines are often lifted into verse by some piece of sly wit or canny wisdom, and at its best his poetry is as strong and simple as his Vermont landscape...
...Further Range, Poet Frost's latest collection, contains some 50 pieces, from two-line quiddities to an eleven-page discourse. Though the subjects are generally homely, everyday, they range a long way from home but always come back to a New England earth. The sight of a boy teasing some caged monkeys with a burning-glass leads Frost to some characteristic thoughts on monkeys...
Without laboring analogies Poet Frost yet manages to convey in his homespun terms a philosophy that has both personal and political implications...
Days of Wrath, with Poet Robert Frost's A Further Range (to be reviewed next week), is the Book-of-the-Month Club choice for June...