Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST, edited by Lawrance Thompson. The nation's late "poet laureate" was too complicated a man to take full shape through this correspondence alone, but it is a thorough and delightful selection and promises much for Editor Thompson's official biography due next year...
SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST, edited by Lawrance Thompson. This collection shows the poet's wit, shrewdness, ego-and also the courage that saw him through an unrelenting succession of painful family tragedies...
POOR RICHARD. Jean Kerr is still wearing the life-of-the-party grin from Mary, Mary, but behind the witticisms something sobering denies that life is that kind of party at all. With Alan Bates playing a lyric poet turned wench charmer and lush, the comedy is less funny than Mary, Mary but more probingly perceptive...
...character in his latest collection of poems. But Death had better not try to gatecrash Britain's John Masefield, who at 86 has plenty more to say and intends to say it. In London to accept a $7,000 prize from the National Book League, Britain's poet laureate (official salary: $272 per annum) allowed in a tense shout: "I am still writing, and I hope to write better some day. At 86, some of the cobwebs have been knocked away, and the scene becomes grander. Much more majestic are those fables that await retelling...
During that "glorious time of great too much," as Poet Leigh Hunt described an English Christmas, the groaning board of the rich and titled is customarily supplied by a unique emporium named Fortnum & Mason Ltd. Fortnum's is the world's only grocery with wall-to-wall carpeting, chandeliers and morning-coated clerks, who preside over stacks of specialty foods that can quickly run a grocery order to sky-high figures. Christmas accounts for 25% of Fortnum's business; last week 700 employees hustled to fill orders from eminent customers for such items as Beluga caviar...