Word: hese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike such surehanded predecessors as Eliot and E. E. Cummings, who refused to make concessions to ready intelligibility, hese poets seem genuinely to want to be understood. One of them, Harvard Scholar-Poet Richard Wilbur, writes, "I am sure that in all poets there is a deep need to communicate." Wilbur places part of the blame for the neglect of poetry on 'the laziness and uneasy pride of a half-educated and excessively comfortable middle class, whose intelligences have so long been flattered by all our great entertainment media that they cannot associate pleasure with effort . . ." There is undoubtedly...