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Quoting this recent remark by Poet W. H. Auden, Encounter magazine asked a group of leading intellectuals if they agreed. A surprising number...
Author W. H. Auden complains that "it looks as if traditional morality is to be succeeded by fashionable morality" and predicts that "heroin and Sade will be in one year, cocoa and virginity the next." Matters may never come to that, but if they do, the British will certainly talk about the change candidly. The M.P.s debating the homosexuality and abortion bills at times became so detailed and clinical in their discussion that Lord Boothby, though a supporter of both bills, was moved to predict: "We shall not hear of sex in this house again for a very long time...
...Auden and Allen Tate were both, in Auden's word, "colonizers" of the terrain that Pound and Eliot discovered. Theodore Roethke was already a major poet when he died in 1963 at 55. The late Dylan Thomas, with his crosscountry sweep of public performances, helped carry poetry into the floodlit arena. So did the beats. Of them, only Allen Ginsberg retains any influence, perhaps less for his poems than for his relentlessly acted role as the bewhiskered prophet of four-letter words, homosexuality, pot, and general din. Still, in their better moments, the beats, now fitfully imitated...
Against this background stands Robert Traill Spence Lowell. Echoes of many of his predecessors and colleagues can be found here and there in his work, although he lacks the resigned elegance and orthodox Christianity of Eliot, the homespun philosophy of Frost, the intellectual subtlety of Stevens, the wit of Auden, the wild...
...good five-cent parody of The Advocate. While preparing the projected spoof, the fledgling editors discovered they could assemble enough competent poetry and prose to put out a serious magazine, whence The Island. The editors have consistently demonstrated sound judgement (and laudable enterprise in arranging interviews with W.H. Auden, Howard Nemerov, and Adrienne Rich). Their Winter issue is predictably excellent...