Carolina QuotesA Little Treasury of Modern Poetry is a standard Oscar Williams production... ...the book has the merit of containing a considerably larger selection of Oscar Williams’s poems than I have seen in any other anthology. There are nine of his poems — and five of Hardy’s. It takes a lot of courage to like your own poetry almost twice as well as Hardy’s.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
“A Verse Chronicle”, pp. 157–158
- work
- Poetry and the Age (1953)
- year
- 1953
- locator
- pp. 157–158
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