Times Three by Phyllis McGinley || Winner of the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry In 1961 || Pulitzer Prize Poems

Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades With Seventy New Poems
by Phyllis McGinley || Foreword by W.H. Auden

These 300 poems are a selection of Phyllis McGinley's best from three productive decades. They represent the whole range of her deft, delightful, wise, and inimitable verses. Included are seventy poems written since her last book of poetry, The Love Letters of Phyllis McGinley.

In these poems, under the casual lightness, the gay good nature, the-sly digs at human foibles including her own, lurks a woman who is astonishingly knowing.

Her technical craft, so much admired by other poets and by critics of all ranks, is a part of her appeal; perhaps it is much more in her knack of striking sparks from the commonplace, drawing poetic overtones from scenes all of us recognize. The poems are arranged by decades so that they can be read consecutively and in the mood of the times for which they were written.

"The best living American poet."
- Peter Dickinson, Punch

"She is one of the few poets now alive admired by scholars, intellectuals, and other poets and at the same time beloved by thousands of readers."
- Orville Prescott, The New York Times

“Her light touch… makes it for us to see McGinley plain, to savor her flawless technique, her delicate perception, her selective taste for the mood and the word. Who would want her to change it, though?”
- Ellen Hart Smith, The New York Herald Tribune Book Review

Cover Design by Janet Halverson || A Viking Press Poetry Book || Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry In 1961