Their Ancient Glittering Eyes: Remembering Poets and More Poets (1978)

by Donald Hall

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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… (more)

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I found this hard to finish, too much detail on some poets I didn't care that much about. It's no spoiler to say that the most beloved of them, Robert Frost, turns out to be an asshole. (

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Remembering Poets: Reminiscences and Opinions

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We Poets in our youth begin in gladness;
But there. of come in the end despondency and madness.

William Wordsworth,
"Resolution and Independence"

We work in the dark---we do what we can---we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Henry James, "The Middle Years"

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To Charles Christensen

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Everyone knew Dylan Thomas.

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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

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