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"Poetry Mostly Off The Beaten Track" 60 pages. Published in May 2001. $5. By Roy Herbert.
This is a short course in understanding poetry
written by Roy Herbert (1929-1996), whose
profession was managing editor of the Reader's
Digest and one of whose avocations was
literature and poetry. Included are great poems of
the past, by Catullus, the troubadours, Ezra
Pound, Andrew Marvell, Baudelaire, Matthew Arnold,
Shakespeare, and W.B. Yeats. Also
included are previously unpublished poems by Roy
Herbert, and appreciations of the late author
by his widow, April Herbert, a sculptor, and Robert
V. Keeley, a friend from college days at
Princeton, both acting as editors of this volume.
Author biography:
Roy Herbert was educated at the Taft School, where
he learned Latin among other subjects, and
at Princeton, where he majored in English and wrote
an honors thesis on the works of James
Joyce. He was also a prominent campus journalist as
editorial chairman of The Daily Princetonian,
the undergraduate newspaper. His working life was at
the Reader's Digest, where he became
managing editor, before retiring at the early age of
53. He thereafter pursued his own interests in
literature, art, philosophy, science and other
subjects. He was a lifelong student and self-educator.
Because of his love of poetry he was asked to lead a
course discussion of poetry, the genesis of
this book. Herbert was known for his intelligence,
his wicked sense of humor and fun-loving spirit,
his integrity, gentlemanly manner, and insatiable
curiosity.
Table of Contents
1.The Man Behind the Lines
2.Poetry Mostly Off the Beaten Track
3.Editor's Note
4.Addendum
5.Poems by Roy Herbert
6.Postscript
7.Coda.
{ INTRODUCTION }
{ PUBLICATIONS OF THE FIVE AND TEN PRESS 1995-2005 }
{ ORDER FORM }
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{D.C. GOVERNANCE: IT'S ALWAYS BEEN A MATTER OF RACE AND MONEY}
{ANNALS OF INVESTING
STEVE FORBES VS. WARREN BUFFETT }
{ THE FILE: A PRINCETON MEMOIR }
{ESSAYS FAST AND LOOSE: A CHRISTMAS MISCELLANY }
{LETTERS MOSTLY UNPUBLISHED}
{ INNOCENTS OF THE LATTER DAY: MODERN AMERICANS ABROAD }
{ ESSAYS COLD AND HOT: A NEW YEAR"S POTPOURRI}
{ MSS REVISTED }
{ THREE SEA STORIES }
{CREATURES OF THE EARTH AND THE MIND}
{MY COMMUTE}
{SIC TRANSIT}
{THE GREAT PHELSUMA CAPER - A DIPLOMATIC MEMOIR}
{ THE PORT OF MISSING MEN - A NOVEL }
{ POETRY MOSTLY OFF THE BEATEN TRACK }
{ PARTING THE CURTAIN }
{ ESSAYS NEAR AND FAR: AS A NEW CENTURY DAWNS }
{ RANDOM THOUGHTS, ANECDOTES, AND MEMORIES OF A BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE THAT IS NO MORE }
{ FROM THE HEARTLAND }
{ ONE OF THE VERY BEST MEN }
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