Word: dooryards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of these poems are restrained when compared with Walt Whitman's effusive When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. Nor are they elegiac in the usual sense. In poetry as elsewhere, the sea of faith has receded, and poets no longer have recourse to the traditional symbols of comfort and deliverance. The poems are for the most part stoical, terse, plainspoken. But all of them bespeak a grief as great as any poetry of the past...
...long ago, the Christian Century persuasively summed up Southern Baptism thus: "There are some striking inconsistencies. Fervent for missionary work among peoples of all races, it yet has to come to terms with the racial problems in its own dooryard. Pouring millions of dollars into education, it yet has made no effort to recommend ministerial stand ards to its cooperating churches. While loudly proclaiming its zeal to win the world for Christ, it yet bans any official relationship to national or world ecumenical movements. As they invade new territories, domestic and foreign, their cultural and social presuppositions are being challenged...