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...stately hall of London's Tate Gallery, paintings of 52 proud and pink-cheeked youths went on display last week. On loan from Eton, they were pictures of senior boys done by the best British portraitists of the 18th and early igth Centuries...
...cast an increasingly larger shadow over three decades of U S writing history. The "ferment of his ideas in the heads of his old pupils" (a phrase Ransom applies to Aristotle) has had acknowledged results. Some of his ex-pupils: Robert Penn Warren, Robert Lowell Randall Jarrell, Allen Tate...
Williams' savagery and civilization seemed to be paying off. Critic Wyndham Lewis called him a "brilliant newcomer" and an "artist of genius." The Tate Gallery was considering a Williams canvas for its collection. With most of his paintings sold or spoken for. Artist Williams was looking forward to giving up clerking for good, supporting his wife and two children by painting...
...Among his predecessors: Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Robert Lowell...
...Readers will also have a chance of being in on the making of a popular literary reputation, for Ford's publisher has spared no pains to provide his forgotten man with a general's escort of trumpeters: "the great English novelist of his time" (Allen Tate); "no novelist of this century more likely to live" (Graham Greene); "a veritable Kanchenjunga* among the current molehills" (Herschel Brickell...