Re: PPB: A Summer Night / Robert Hillyer
[email protected] (Will-Dockery)
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> George J. Dance wrote: > >> 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 Thanks again for the heads-up, GJD. 😏 This response appears in the discussion at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=709953924#709953924 -- Via JLA Forums web gateway for alt.arts.poetry.comments: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewforum.php?f=655