Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking uncharacteristically jowly, Nobel Prizewinning Poet T. S. (The Waste Land) Eliot, 68, arrived at London Airport after a flight from his three-week honeymoon hideout on the French Riviera. At T.S.'s side was his second wife (his first died in 1947), Valerie Fletcher Eliot, 30, a shining inspiration to millions of secretaries dearly hoping to marry their bosses...
...ever experienced in terms of closeness, intellectual vitality, mutual respect, in terms of exchange of ideas and the flow of electricity that keeps everybody learning all the time. Charlie spent his whole life saturated in this sort of thing." His father is Mark Van Doren, 62, Pulitzer Prizewinning poet and professor of English at Columbia; his mother, Dorothy, is a onetime editor (on The Nation) who has published five novels; his late Uncle Carl, whom he idolized, was a Pulitzer Prize biographer, a topflight literary critic and, like Mark, a prolific man of letters who wrote in virtually every form...
...refused to admit that I might follow in my father's footsteps as a teacher." In 1951 he won a $3,000 traveling fellowship-the same one that Mark had won at Columbia in 1919-and went to Cambridge University to research his dissertation on 18th century English Poet William Cowper. But Cambridge proved frustrating, and before the academic year was out, he left abruptly for Paris "under something of a pall, without fulfilling certain obligations." According to his Cambridge landlady, who has a transatlantic eye on his TV winnings, the obligations included ?22 ($61.60) of unpaid rent...
...this to justify Robert Graves as a historical novelist. And he needs the justification, for who know Robert Graves as anything more than a "promising" War Poet, now out of mind for thirty years. He will read tonight at MIT, to the surprise of some who didn't know that he was still alive...
Subtle, intriguing and full of originality, the play recalls other writers who, steering by Freud with a list to Oedipus, showed man haunted by the ghost of his mother, and combined the pursuit of love with a longing for death. But Aiken is first and foremost a poet with an intricate set of symbols all his own. He has long been fascinated by ships, voyages, wandering and exile. No other major U.S. writer is more traditionally American than he-and yet no other gives a stronger feeling of being an explorer beyond his own land. In Ushant (TIME...