Re: PPB: A Summer Night / Robert Hillyer

> Will-Dockery wrote:
> 
>> George J. Dance wrote:
>> 
>>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>> 
>>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>> Sunday's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>>>> A Summer Night, by Robert Hillyer
>>>> 
>>>> [...]
>>>> An old violinist crosses the Fenway
>>>> And watches the lights go out. He can almost
>>>> Hear the sigh of the weary bodies.
>>>> [...]
>>>> 
>>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2026/08/a-summer-night-robert-hillyer.html
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Good poem of the summertime blues.
>>> 
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hillyer
>>> 
>>> Robert Hillyer bio ^^^
>> 
>> 
>> It's been ten years since I've had Hillyer's poetry on the blog. But, with works going
>> back into the public domain in the U.S., I can now blog poems, like this one, from ten
>> years later in his career than the ones I used to use.
>> 
>> I find Hillyer to be an exceptional poet; not in the rank of Robert Frost (whom he most
>> resembles), but a talent in his own right. And he certainly needs the attention, as
>> he's been lost to the new generation, left out of the print anthologies and the like. In
>> his case, I don't think he was forgotten so much as deliberately censored out -- a whole
>> generation of poets and critics never forgave him for being the author of "Treason's
>> Strange Fruit," the article that began the attacks on Ezra Pound after Pound was
>> awarded the Bolingen Prize.
> 
> 
> A decade ago, I'll have to look into the archives for those older Robert Hillyer poems, I don't remember them at all.



Here's an easy link to all the Hillyer poetry on PPB. Since it will show up in the
JLA mirror site, I don't think they'll mind my posting it.
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/search/label/Robert%20Hillyer 


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