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COLLECTED POEMS-Robert P. Tristram Coffin-Macmillan...
Countrified. Weaver's citified verse offers the general public food for self-pity. The countrified verse of Maine-coast-man Robert P. Tristram Coffin offers it food for self-satisfaction. Those who read verse because they have an appetite for such food will enjoy reading Coffin's Collected Poems. Into the book Coffin has put some 250 lyrics and ballads, previously published in eight books and in 46 low, high-and medium-browed magazines; and he gives them a dramatic send-off with a 13-page preface in which he modestly blesses himself for being a good poet...
...student at Wells College, where she studied under Robert P. Tristram Coffin, and afterwards as an advertising copy writer in Philadelphia and as a country doctor's wife in upper Michigan, her notable successes were: 1) being sued by a villager whom she described too candidly; 2) winning a single silver spoon in an advertising contest (first prize: a whole chest of silver); 3) winning $14 for a contest article entitled How I Met the Problems of Adolescence in my Daughter, which she wrote shortly before her first child was born. Her first published novel, Fireweed, won the University...
MAINE BALLADS-Robert P. Tristram Coffin-Macmillan ($2). Poet Coffin thinks that "the materials for ballads are still being made up every day out of the whole cloth of human nature." This good-tempered, able-bodied collection of folksy poems, is made up out of some State-of-Maine-colored fragments from human nature's rural...
...Tristram (Sat. 7:30 p. m., CBS). The Columbia Workshop presents Stella Reynolds' adaptation of Edwin Arlington Robinson's version of the Tristram & Iseult love story...