POETRY

During the year Wallace Stevens died--as unostentatiously as he had lived--and with this businessman-poet went one of the most notable lyric voices. In contrast, Welshman Dylan Thomas was not allowed to rest even in the grave. Every available scrap of his prose was exhumed. Trading on an association with a poet who had caught the popular fancy, Minor Poet John Malcolm Brinnin wrote Dylan Thomas in America, which was intimate to the point of tastelessness.

The Poems of Emily Dickinson, by Thomas H. Johnson, was a monumental work of such precise scholarship that only new discoveries will justify further inquiries concerning the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Every known poem, with its variants, was in the three volumes, as was everything known about its origins. Together with Author Johnson's succinct biography, Emily Dickinson, the work seemed to have wrapped up the subject once and for all.

The Collected Poems of Edith Sitwell were final proof, if any were still needed, that Dame Edith deserves a place with the best poets now writing in English. This book showed the remarkable road she had taken from poetry for the sake of sound and sensuous color to an awareness of God and regard for man.

Collected Poems, by Robert Graves, brought large-scale proof that the man who wrote clever historical novels was really a poet who wrote prose only for the cash of it. His best poems were beautifully composed, full of rich and sometimes formal wit, and when he wrote about women in love there was no contemporary to touch him.

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