The Fading Smile
Poets in Boston, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath,
"A beautiful and richly instructive book, a worthy and welcome sequel to Eileen Simpson's Poets in Their Youth."
Louis S. Auchincloss
An intimately perceptive account, by a poet who knew them all, of the brilliant circle of poets who lived and worked in Boston through the half-decade beginning in 1955. That was the year Peter Davison, coming to Boston as a book editor. was swept up in a world -- in a tumult -- of poetry. He rediscovered his father's old friend Robert Frost. He briefly squired Sylvia Plath. He came to know Robert Lowell (whose poems and private disasters dominated the period) and Adrienne Rich, Stanley Kunitz, Richard Wilbur. Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, and others who, closely bound together in…
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May 15, 2013Schooled in Colorado and at Harvard and Cambridge, and long a resident of Boston, Peter Davison is known as one of the foremost poetry editors, especially in his work for Houghton Mifflin Company and the Atlantic Monthly. In addition to the explorations in his nine books of poetry, he has recorded his memoirs in Half Remembered: A Personal History and in The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston, 1955–1960, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath.
The Poems of Peter Davison
Peter Davison
The Great Ledge
Peter Davison
The Fading Smile
Peter Davison
Breathing Room
Peter Davison
Modern Classics Orwell in Spain
George Orwell;Christopher Hitchens;Peter Davison
Poems by Robert Frost
Robert Frost
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
Knife
Salman Rushdie
Jennie's Boy
Wayne Johnston
Burning Questions
Margaret Atwood
Paper Trails
Roy MacGregor
Mistakes to Run With
Yasuko Thanh
A Private Spy
John le Carré; edited by Tim Cornwell
The Bookseller of Florence
Ross King
Half-Bads in White Regalia
Cody Caetano
In a Time of Distance
Alexander McCall Smith
Through the Garden
Lorna Crozier
Letters of Note: New York City
Shaun Usher
Letters of Note: Sex
Shaun Usher
Burning Boy
Paul Auster