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… Yvor Winters at Stanford When I first met Yvor Winters 26 years ago, on my arrival as a new instructor in the … I was surprised to find him a rotund figure with a florid complexion. One could tell even before hearing him speak … Stanford, Winters had never read his poems to a Stanford audience, although the English Department and the University …

… people had been forced to labor and for which so many had died. In the photograph of Sojourner Truth, her hands are … but her master had promised to free her a year early, in 1826. When he reneged, saying that she was less productive … the pictures. The dispatches are then published on our website, and two are selected for inclusion in each issue of …

… close friend and a once-famed poet, who had died of a heart attack, paranoid and alone just two years …

… native Boston, where her father and mother had lived and died, the Vari was just “one of Dad’s paintings” to Caroline … today’s market a certified authentic Vari at auction might command $750,000 to one million. The McKays were comfortably … few, like Vari, Frieseke, and Edward Potthast—Caroline was also lucky enough to draw a Potthast beach scene in the …

… Henry James could be as simple in conversation as he was complex in his books. And the better we know any author the … in St. Jean Pied de Port, and cover all the later tragedies of his life. No doubt it was on the whole very tragic, … something at once unexpected, absurd, and delightful. 409-426 By Morley Roberts …