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...Gunn, once just another Auden, has now turned towards Donne and Antony. In the process, he has developed a sustained unity of expression...
...American revolution, a revolt of the vernacular launched by Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and Robert Frost-all of them still alive and writing, but not writing much. In the early '30s, the heirs of the revolution, led by Britain's W. H. Auden, turned to what Poet Archibald MacLeish called the "invocation to the social muse...
...since the '20s. ("The Beats have taken poetry out of the academic study," says one critic, "and put it in the subway restroom.") And the success of the uncouth has encouraged the couth, who are slowly but inevitably developing a new poetic tone, a tone less clever than Auden, more direct than Eliot, more worldly and less personal than Thomas, a conversational but careful tone in which important things can be simply said...
...that they are the best of the postwar period is not to say much for a period characterized by a ferment without much effect, a prodigy promised but not performed. Among the couths, even the inconsequent are competent. "The level of technique in verse," says Poet Auden, "is probably higher today than ever before." But with all their skill, most contemporary poets seem to have little to say. To paraphrase Poet Jarrell: They are professional magicians who have nothing up their sleeves-not even their arms...
Poet W. H. Auden will speak at 3 p.m. tonight at Mount Holyoke's Chapin Auditorium, South Hadley, as part of the college's 125th anniversary celebration. Three Massachusetts candidates for the U.S. Senate will speak there later in the year: Edward M. Kennedy '54 (March 5); Edward J. McCormack (March 13); and George Cabot Lodge '50 (April...