The Chapel Hill News from Chapel Hill, North Carolina • 13

Page S-fe Sunday May 26 1963 lift CHAPEL HtLL WEEKLY i iwBfiMririjytw 't'rrrr I I In The Margin By scARBonorrii From The Birdcage Floor Bowen Gathers Droppings Guide For Scaling Baudelaire Heights -'V t- never before Each mood is caught at its peak by the style and personality of the individ- s' ture of the relationship suffering a 'single dramatic -change There were moments in the third year when the going was a bit rough but that worked out nicely inside a couple of months -Somewhere in the bark of the file though Norah really hasnt any respect for Peter and Peter needs that not respect as a man but as an A casual slip undoes WlW -M I but he does reach the conclusion that life with Xorah is less a convenience than a trap a bird cage Once back from the holiday be announces the termination of the arrangement Xorah is appropriately stunned but canny enough to realize that she has not lever one to close the doqr on that birdcage if her little budgirigar wants out Usage is a hard thing to abandon still both make as good an attempt as could be expected from such clods The separation might have endured but for a strange sort of justice at work Boors of that rut ultimately get exactly what' they deserve: each other Along the trail of course Mr Bowen notices some other tempting targets including contemporary English culture artists and such like About the only person in the entire country who has kept in proper kilter is an eld gentleman one of Xorah's 1 associates dug up through a review of his play done by George Bernard Shaw for tlx old Saturday Review in 1904 The play Since Mr Shaw praised it might warrant adaptation in fact must be adapted because an -American University Press was published the review in a collection of Shaw laundry lists and personal letters and no scholar Carolina Quarterly: Toward Excellence Just as it that the Carolina Quarterly is suffering a relapse into its normal anemia it comes bounding luck into the world of the living with indignation at the suggest inn that the illness might have been terminal 4 Its third issue of the year Volume 13 Number 3 is really so fur removed from the faltering start of last fall it scents a different magazine altogether In fact so good is it the polite insult of making allowances Lr the fact that staff and contributors are students or immediate past students is unnecessary Those readers who have kept abreast of the Quarterly's many annual could well find this the tost single Issue since the halcyon days of Ted Duval's 1931-52 editor ship- Certainly in terms of the short fiction included this issue contains the tost balance most consistently high quality and clearest evidence of talent any Quarterly editor has toon able to put together for the last five years Leon ltooke is represented by two selections which demonstrate again what should by now be recognized os the greatest fund of potential in the art of fiction now loose in Town Of course Mr Hooke has not missed more than one or two issues for a couple of years: this says -something about his prolificness and is more than a little to the Quarterly's credit One must cavil at the quulity and ultimate effect of the selections but for all their imperfections they display a 'deep commitment to experiment and innovation that modern writers are expected to have but rarely use fine THE rIRP CACE Eg John Bmre Harper Rote HM Page $395 By SCARBOROUGH Blessed is the square for he hath usurped the earth even unto the corners of old Chelsea Yea verily he offereth each day unto the Angry Young Man a target With this article of faith firmly fixed in at the top of his writing stand English novelist John Bowen has gone hunting Philistines in Kensington Square or wherever else in merry old Eng-: land he suspects their existence It would be a formidable task to denounce them all for they have penetrated even unto the fourth and fifth ministries Still with fine partiality Mr Bowen has stalked two particularly feckless specimens all the way to the continent picked up their spoor in Venice and tracked them relentlessly to his notion of just retribution It is not as though Peter Ash and ah Palmer are bad folk even though they must live In ain owing to a quirk of British taxation they are simply vacuous Educated as well as one of the middle classes can realistically hope to be -Xorah has read in English at Cambridge but edits-television scripts: Peter has' stumbled his way up from the hinterlands of radio to a sort of closed-in David Suskind type who does cultural "fcaturettes" for the cinema They have been living together nine years at the time they come under Mr Bowen's scrutiny Each year they vacation together prudently sensibly doing just the right thing on just the the rirfit budget: they see eights but not in that vulgar Am- erican or German way one at a time thank you and not so closely as to give evidence of enthusiasm' Such a pattern could have gone on indefinitely without the struc- John Iiowen Author of The ual translator As no two poeli and the poetry translator is a poet encompass the same spectrum of emotions moods and passions a group of fine translators can Through Hie flue sense of rhyme and rhythm of Roy Campbell flow the lines love and death: half-starved witches raising spooks' The antics of obscene old men And black conspiracies of MacIntyre's hard stark imagery breaks the bitterness of (Baudelaire over the reader: "Or starving clown show off your charms your smile Wet with tears that none see beguile And cheer the sick spleen of the vulgar The poetic sense and understanding of Sturm leave sharp the sarcasm that is so much of -Baudelaire: that thy breast where so deep thoughts arte Breathed forth a healthful perfume with thy Mo aspect of Baudelaire escapes the fine-tooth comb of the varied and competent translators of this volume An additional treat is the original pre'acc and notes of Baudelaire in their intended positions and original draft forms never before published in English Another salute to the translator and a gift to the reader Is the placement of the French text Their inclusion as an appendix eliminates the distraction of comparison To' those already familiar with Charles Baudelaire this volume will not only to a source of com' parison and study of translations but a clearer and more penetrating look into one of France's greatest poets To the reader new to Baudelaire you could do no better When one wishes to climb a great mountain such os Baudelaire is-to world literature one needs the best of guides and equipment This book is it Mr Quin is poetry editor of RefltciioM from Chapel Hilt Writer Guy Owen To Be Interviewed Members of the Writers' Workshop will interview novelist and poet Guy Owen on WUNC-TV tonight at 9:15 pm and on Tuesday June 4 at 9:30 pm Guy Owen is the author of pf Fear" a novel published in I960 by Random House and in 1962 by Gollancx of-Eng-land He is the editor of Impetus a poetry magazine and an associate professor at North Carolina State where he teaches creative writing jjpring the program Mr Owen will read fNbn and discuss his novel and writing in general Writers' Workshop is conducted by Romulus Limey and directed by Clive Hewitt of North Carolina State DISPLAY AT SCHRAFFTS A'kpedal show of landscapes by Loren Dunlap of Indianapolis is now being displayed at Country Inn through the courtesy of Paintings Upstairs Gallery 3 ashes in Bieir mouths because they foul the nest for sensitive young men We fail however to detect implication of positive remedies The square serves his purpose extent This is Miss first published story her in being cannon fodder for quite a few young men who write things In fact one wonders where such as Mr Bowen would to and doing what drudgery without them Eventually someone is going to find profit defending tto Babbits of the world no doubt he will set a literary convention just as remunerative ami just as artistically sterile as the nne Mr Bowen celebrates But who knows perhaps in England stupidity is not a natural element of the human condition Accompanying the Rnoke pieces is a particularly and mature story hy Gloria Levy "Riviera dei which in tone and setting is reminiscent of a youthful Iluxley but without being imitative to nny Important extent This is Miss Lwi firit "niibtished 'slorv: her beginning augurs well Ixtu impressive but still very much entitled to praise is a sequence of three closely related storjes by Jim Wayne Miller which suffers an inadvertent coincidence with "The- Brothers" by Wcndel Berry a sequential story in the same mode published in the Sprint? 1936 Carolina Quarterly The final selectirn a Long Way to would indicate for its author Clute that a FLOWERS OF EVIL Ckarle fijpudflairt Xnr Direction 4iS Page fIM By BOYCE QULNN Investigation research a high regard for excellence in poetry these ingredients resulted in Marthiel and Jackson Mathews' revised edition of Baudelaire's of Evil' which is not only the finest and most comprehensive collection of Baudelaire's poetry but an enlightening and informative study of the art of poetic translation To the Mathews' first edition issued in 1S55 thirty-three new translations were added many never before published and achieving a new high in the presentation of foreign language poetry The book rightly enough dedicated to the translators contains some 41 translators many well known poets themselves (Edna St Vincent Millay Robert Lowed Allen Tate etc) and covers S3 years from Baudelaire's first translator to his latest Exemplifying the spirit of the volume the tint poem "To the 'Reader" stresses the different apprajidiep and styles of the translators The poem is represented by two translations one by Robert Lowell: Satan in our cursed bed Lulls us to sleep our spirit ov-erkissed Until the precious metal of our win Is that cunning And one by Stanley Kunitz: devil watching by our sickbeds hissed old smut and folk-songs to our soul until the soft And precious metal of our will boiled off in vapor for the The contrast speaks for itself Through this anthology of translators Baudelaire shines as CUBRENT BEST SELLERS Fiction 1 Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters and An Introduction Salinger The Glass-Blowers -Du Maurier' 3 Seven Days in May Knebcl and Bailey Nto-fletira 1 The Whole Truth and Nothing But i Hopper Travels With Charley Steinbeck The Ordeal of Power Hughes WILLS BOOK STORE Lakewood Sbepptag Cester Meaiay Thursday r'iighti arr But long way to maturity but worth the price of the trip nevertheless A Private Utopia In Bucks County spurious at least this me does with the only noble motive Mr Bowen sees fit to ascribe to any of his characters If anything the English hate it's other Englishmen and Americans in reversible order as necessity dictates 'Mr Bowen can be amusing in his savagery but a good satirist has a basic liking for people Mr Bowen does not moreover he is-lread- ing some well-plowed furrows across the literary landscape and Dot very competently following llie contours at that lie' may to perfectly correct in gauging the English bourgeois by harsh standards and equally right in saying that such wretches deserve that life should turn to HARDISON A long-absent staple criticism makes a re-upienrance but under such terms us to leave one a bit emljumisseJ on behalf of the author It take more than naivete for a critic to launch into an evaluation of Joseph Douglas Day whom the Quarterly says is an assistant professor of English at the University of Virginia and former editor of the once-very-fine literary magazine at Washington gud Lee has distinguished himself by missing the very essence of' the book It would ap)ear that Mr Day has confused literacy with being literal-minded but he at least made the gesture A fine effort AREA CODE SIS: A PRIVATE LINE IN BUCKS COUNTY Walter Teller Atk-enenm 220 Page 575 By NANCY- GRANT "I know (he good place cap to where I am as well as anywhere else" writes Walter Teller Chapel Hill readers will have less difficulty than many of his audience in responding to description of his- own Utopia Tills is a book for those who are exhausted by the fast pace of modern urban living and long for a return to the "simple life" in which the passing of the year is recognised more by the changes outside one's own window than in the display window A chronicle of mqdern man seeking some rapport with nature with his modern conveniences have denied him Ares Code SIS is a miscellany of random observations on one man's search Loosely organised around the seasonal tjhanges fragments of folklore unearthed in his wanderings around the county are juxtaposed with anecdotes of the vagaries of rural life and all are set against the backdrop of the natural world which Taller so freshly foot the reader abandons his book for the' out-of-doors Despite the genuine appeal of the simple life and the sensitivity of the author's commentary could possibly neglect appending the proper footnote to history Well plain folks especially dotty old civil servants who tried to better themselves by attending night school and writing plays naturally triisnph over the on man and nature one defects a sentimental involvement with the trappings pf the past which almost amounts to a glorification of the primitive for its own soke arid it is -here that his criticisms-of modern life become merely carping at the superficial ugliness of 20th ccnlury America with its filling-station architecture aqd Instqnt culture Sometimes this is whimsical as in his nostalgia for the manual shift of a car and the potbellied stove (which does not extend to the outhouse) but other times one 'feels he is ready to reject the outside world because of its billboards and has forgotten that one can now romanticize wood stoves because one no 'longer is compelled to use them Far more serious is llie willingness to retreat into a private Utopia where few -can follow yhetber they live in New York or- Chapel Hill because escapism is a -luxury few can afford today Therefore In one sense book is 'one more in the long line of hooka which ex- toll a golgqn age fopt is gone and present an appealing out basically untenable philosophy for readers all too ready to escape present conflicts Mn Gnat Is a tor in the University meat of English Depart- with yeoman ts purchased from a focal bindery which accounts for some books being red and aome green -stow started to project tup across many people wto an also -jnfereyfed ip writing boose tnoufoi not anyone who printed their own Actuator anybody could do tt' All' it takes is abut $300 worth of materials and a' worth -of spare Mrs Shady is tot daughter of Wiley Sanders of Chapel HQL She to marriqd to Dr Otis Shealy Fhi Cbem UNC) who'lra research director for to du Font Company V--' Vlhto English Given Fellowships Keep The Aspidistra Flying Judging from recent developments on the culture front it would appear that North Carolina under the leadership of Professor John Ehle will toon begin waving aloft creativity as a symbol of our identity much as novelist George Orwell held that the England of the was epitomized in the aspidistra a house plant which bloomed under adversity and jiffluence alike Considering his maneuvers for a State School for the Performing Arts Mr Ehle has assumed a position somewhat like the farmer wJjo slicker ed the traveling daughter UNC President William Friday put the proposal in proper perspective following a hearing Thursday bo-ore -the Joint Appropriations Conuhittee President Friday told newspapermen a study should be made of the programs of existing State institutions in the fine arts to determine jthe available capacities and resources looking to possible association of the conservatory with existing institutions (This jvas particularly true of tiie college phase of the proposed hill JAMES MERIWETHER He was a Fidbright Fallow in 1953-54 when he studied 'for a year in Italy During the year of his Guggenheim fellowship he will work on book-length study of the origins of medieval drama Professor James Med- weafoer a native of Columbia 8 holds an A and the Ph from Princeton Uni varsity He has been at the University tore since 1959 where he teaches courses in modern American and Britifo literature Although Professor Meriwether has written many articles on a variety of contemporary novel- actet- Ffotllk- Two members of the University English Deportment As-ciate Professor -B Hardison and Associate Professor James Meriwether have received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation for 1963-64 The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation annually awards a sum her of fellowships to unusually productive scholar their research and artistic creation Professor Hardison has been fenrirfng at the University since 1957 He received his Ph from 0 She Wfites Illustrates Prints And Binds Own Book A former Chapel Hfllian ffor- figure out bow to make the tot-riet Sanders Steely has recently taring said foe author written and illustrated a child's paid a printer to do book (ME Which is for sale to- Then she sewed toe pages with cdfly (Mrs Sfaealy is also tot button thread and bound them create specialized programs for students at both the the University of Wisconsin and -ists such as Faulkner Cozzens taught at the University of Tennessee and at Princeton University before coming to Chapel Hill His special field is the literature of the Renaissance and general liferary criticism Besides pfo- and Joyce Cary bis main elv Infeeari it In MTilltfovn JS ary Career of William was published hy the Press Jta 2901 A ftoood printer' and foe binder of toe book- Several yean ago she wrote the story for we of her four children and after having it injected by several publishers cided to print it herself She took a course in silk screen printing bought enough paver for 300 copies and set up aqop in )nr GreeuvilJe Delaware home sms fcwiwha feg her bus-band to make info a silk acren frame wait fo Fhfladciphia fo purchase inks rigged a dotbee-Une With 300 paper efipa on it fo dry tot pages footed up Jboob binding In wfereno hooks a ad wrote foe fforary at engross for eopyritot foq ufo-i-The St inustrations wero find iHtiintiQOI MN DM coltec tevd ta noted) Prince-tea critical study on toe Chronicle Novels of Faulkner will be publish-ed next year white an anthology of Faulkner criticism which Mr Meriwether to editing is to appear later giiS year Besides such critical studies )dofcourMihwH to the determinio ketor efd tediro toe editions of-Rudk- not MrEhle's plaint of culture for sake works He has been efotprial consultant to Random House the publishers of last novels At present be to engaged ia writiog a Biblioeraphy of the writing at William for whom complete toe Guggenheim foundation has awarded him a feltowship -1 1 a 1 a number of article on Shakespeare Milton Robert Lowell and modem critidem he has edited an anthology of Modern Continental Criticism Last winter the University Press publitoed bis book Endur-ing a scholarly study' of Renaissance literary criticism A second anthology "Renaissance Literary -will to published by-Appleton-Centuiy-Croft tidsijnanth-Professor Hardison is also active as a poet He frequently participates in program of poetry readings and a number of hit poems have appeared1 In jug poetry collections -iv vt-' vJ '-it IDE II1TIUATE D00KSE0P 119 Esst Franklin Street Open Till 9 pjn cot out of Ibioieumhlofoa-wito two additional eofees'sHk screen- ed' on eadi pa I (F ff Jt fa 9T to Adverted foe Chapel Hill WpeUy every beue pf tot year' 4 r--fTxr4 -aw 7- Pw 4 tj -w-- -fiv V-- i V' I'" i j- t-' Vr 4 --V.