Word: brinnin
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...decade the poets of America have pointed the way in social trends, and now that popular thought has embraced their ideas in the war against fascism, the poets of America are engaged in the task of pointing new directions," stated John M. Brinnin, noted young poet who is now studying for an M.A. degree in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...Brinnin asserted that for years he and his colleagues were scorned as visionary radicals when they issued their tirades against fascism. In this war, however, those who condemned aid to Loyalist Spain and advocated appeasement have finally seen the light. The declaration of war, he continued, brought the end of an era in which young poets all over the United States fought Nasism tooth and nail...
...artistic calamity. Combining his usual technical artistry with a radical shift to significant subject matter, this poem must rank among Stevens' most important and best. A delightfully impudent bit of subtle artistry, "The Wood Weasel," has been contributed by Marianne Moore, while Conrad Aiken, Frederic Prokosch, and John Brinnin are represented by pieces which, though not their best work, will add to this issue's appeal...
...poetry corner John Malcolm Brinnin's "John the Baptist" stands out as the most original and forceful. Technically modern, yet with a stability and poise which characterizes too little Advocate poetry, this piece achieves a balance between the verbose complexities of Dunstan Thompson and the simple triteness of Bruce Phemister whose poems also appear in this issue. Not to be forgotten is Robert Hillyer's "Fantasy," a bit of skillfully unimportant frou-frou, but delightful...