Re: PPB: A Summer Night / Robert Hillyer

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.

As j noted earlier, ironically Hillyer s connection to Ezra Pound is probably what he's best remembered for. 

> This response appears in the discussion at:
> http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=709953924#70995392

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