Volume 6, Number 5 · March 31, 1966
Lines
By Marius Bewley
The Old Adam
by D.J. Enright
Chatto & Windus, 54 pp., 12/6
Thousand-Year-Old Fiancee & Other Poems
by Robert Sward
Cornell, 80 pp., $3.95
Selected Poems
by Louis Simpson
Harcourt, Brace & World, 145 pp., $4.95
Collected Poems of Rolfe Humphries
by Rolfe Humphries
Indiana, 288 pp., $6.95
Selected Poems
by Richard Eberhart
New Directions, 115 pp., $1.75
Love Poems (Tentative Title)
by Frank O'Hara
Tibor de Nagy, 30 pp., $2.00
The Wooden Horse
by Daryl Hine
Atheneum, 61 pp., $1.95 (paper)
Knock Upon Silence
by Carolyn Kizer
Doubleday, 84 pp., $2.95
D. J. Enright is an English poet of unusual accomplishment who has spent a good many years of his life teaching at universities in Japan and the East. Because of some unaccountable and greatly-to-be-regretted oversight, his books have never been published in this country. It may simply be that behind the firmly controlled uninsistence of his lines American ears, grown accustomed to the clamant verse of poets like Robert Sward, who is discussed below, have not yet recognized the concentration of Enright's verse, its nerve, its distilled lack of irrelevancy. He has described the tone his poetry aspires to very well in 'Elegy in a Country Suburb':
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