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SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE Poets on the New Frontier by BETTE RICHART PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S Inauguration was a great come-and-get-it day for poets, who are (or have been) resigned to doing without much...
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TRADITION OF SURPRISING EXCELLENCE The Light Touch by BETTE RICHART I N THE SEVENTEENTH century, an English clergyman named Robert Herrick perfected the light touch in poetry; it is doubtful that...
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EDITH SITWELL'S BAROQUE REVIVAL Dame Edith's Art by BETTE RICHART ALL POETS ARE signs which shall be contradicted, but Dame Edith Sitwell is that even more than most. Protesting (though she might...
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The life of Cornelia Connelly would seem to belong to a Graham Greene novel Wife, Mother and Nun
by BETTE RICHART S EVERAL YEARS ago Michael de la Bed oyere pointed out that Carlyle had...
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EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poet of Our Youth BETTE RICHART D YLAN THOMAS said that "Out of an inevitable conflict of images . . . I try to make that momentary peace which is a poem."...
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MARIANNE MOORE
In the Grand Tradition
BETTE RICHART
A MAJOR POET has given us a new reason to weigh a timeless question: what is the experience of poetry? Is it more, or less, than life? More, or...
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BOOKS A Poetic and Wise Book THE LYCIAN SHORE. By Freya Stark. Harcourt, Brace. $6.50. By JOHN P. SISK T HIS BEAUTIFULLY written and illustrated book is the account of Miss Stark's journey...
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BOOKS Pathetic Grandeur of a Belfast Spinster THE LONELY PASSION OF JUDITH HEARNE. By Brian Moore. Little, Brown. $3.50. By WILLIAM CLANCY MODERN "tragedy" has moved far from the majesty...
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BOOKS Power in the Third Age of the Middle Earth THE LORD OF THE RINGS. III Vols.: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King. By J. R. R. To)kien. Houghton Mifflin...
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BOOKS The Literary Psyche of Modern Italy MODERN ITALIAN STORIES. Selected and translated by W. J. Strachan. Philosophical Library. $4.75. By WILLIAM DUNLEA T HESE short stories are...
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Poets on the New Frontier
(May 1961)
