Their Ancient Glittering Eyes: Remembering Poets and More Poets

By Donald Hall

Book Overview

Donald Hall has written a vivid memoir of the eminent poets of our century. While still a student, Donald Hall came to know Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, and T. S. Eliot. He interviewed Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Marianne Moore for The Paris Review, and his portraits, anecdotes, descriptions, criticisms, and literary gossip, drawn from life

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899199798
• ISBN13: 9780899199795
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Ticknor and Fields
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Five Stars Not Enough

The fact that this book is out of print is one of the great travesties in American publishing. Donal Hall is perhaps the last living connection we have to the golden era of early 20th century poetry. Here you will find firsthand accounts of his contact with giants like TS Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Yvor Winters. Hall's prose is so delightfully engaging, and these profiles go far beyond literary namedropping. In fact, [Remembering Poets] should be required reading for any graduate or post-graduate English scholar. Of all of this writer's many accomplishments, this book certainly ranks near the top.