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True Cross Section. Novelist Ludwig Lewisohn taught at Brandeis until his death in January. Columnist Max Lerner and Critic Louis Kronenberger commute from Manhattan to give courses. E. E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish and W. H. Auden have lectured on modern poetry, and such theater celebrities as Marc Con nelly and Arthur Miller have taught contemporary drama. "A school," says Sachar, "is not a curricular philosophy. It is the people you bring...
...score of nascent Prime Ministers have strolled its tranquil two acres. Poets from Sir Philip (Arcadia) Sidney to W. H. (The Age of Anxiety) Auden first met their muse in the hallowed grassiness spread between Christ Church and Merton College and the crew-splashed "Isis" that is the River Thames. To Christ Church dons the explanation for it all was maddeningly simple: Minister Sandys was an Oxonian, yes, but a Magdalen man! The idea was to steer through the meadow the High Street traffic that now thunders past Sandys' old college over Magdalen Bridge. This, of course, delighted Magdalen...
...behind all the gesticulating and expectorating not many people have considered that perhaps Ted was possessed of some inner, subconscious motivation, the type which Louis Macneice included in his Epilogue for W.H. Auden, stating that it is "time for soul to stretch and spit, before the world comes back on it." Williams has undoubtedly been using Widener Library to enlarge his understanding of the psyche...
...poets he has chosen range from Auden and Emily Dickinson through John Quincy Adams to Shakespeare, whose Epilogue to The Tempest provides a sol emn Prayer Response: My ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer, Which pierces so that it assaults Mercy itself and frees all faults...
...hymnwright. Anglican Auden stands up best of the moderns...