reviews

The Poems of William Carlos Williams by Linda Welshimer

Confucius to Cummings. An Anthology of Poetry, Edited by Ezra Pound and Marcella Spann.

A Point of Sky, by John Glassco.

White Figure, White Ground by Hugh Hood

Coach House's self-indulgent little anthology, This Is My Best, does not deserve an extensive review, but the disservice done to the poets who are included in it warrants some publicity.

Bookstores specializing in out-of-print items may feel done out of a good thing, but readers of poetry, students of American literature, and Thoreau specialists and enthusiasts will be delighted that this edition of Thoreau's poems and poetic fragments, first published in 1943 but long unavailable, has been brought back in print in an expanded form.

Reuben A. Brower's book, The Poetry of Robert Frost: Constellations of Intention, is the best introduction to Frost for the general reader so far avaliable.

Most great poems deal with human concerns.

These two books come from opposite sides of the country: Vancouver and Montreal.

Even in a predominantly agricultural society, the limiting of the presentation of a foreign literature to one narrow movement cannot be justified.