“The promising young poets, the hopefuls? I’d name Richard Wilbur, Peter Viereck, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi... Leonard Bacon... but it is still too early to assertions. They’re all ‘in the field.’ It remains to be seen how many will cross the finish line.”

“The promising young poets, the hopefuls? I’d name Richard Wilbur, Peter Viereck, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi... Leonard Bacon... but it is still too early to assertions. They’re all ‘in the field.’ It remains to be seen how many will cross the finish line.”

— Robert Frost