THEIR ANCIENT GLITTERING EYES: Remembering Poets and More Poets. de Hall, Donald - 1992.

New York:: Ticknor & Fields,, 1992.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name, price-clipped, appears unread.). First printing. A book which is both an "expansion and revision of Remembering Poets (1978), this records the younger Hall's involvement with the 'old ones' [Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Archibald MacLeish, Yvor Winters, Ezra Pound]. . . His respect for the writers does not preclude frankness or significant revelations: readers learn that the elderly Frost, behind his mask of benign farmer-poet and eventual reputation as a monstrous egotist, was startlingly vulnerable - burdened with sadness, driven by guilt. The most thorough portrait follows Hall's relations with Eliot, disclosing a personality rather than a 'monument'- an unusually humorous and surprisingly 'American' poet. And his reminiscences of the lonely, disconcerted Pound may be the book's most insightful. (Publishers Weekly) Index. xv, 348 pp.