Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WITH paeans of praise from two such distinguished authorities as Stephen Vincent Benet and Archibald MacLeish, James Agee '32, president of the Advocate several years ago, has started forth on his poetic career with this slim volume of his verses. In this little book are presented a varied assortment of lyrics, several long poems, quite a collection of sonnets, and a curious "New Yorker"--like prose "Dedication...
...long poems are by far the best--in fact head and shoulders above the many sonnets telling of a doubting love, or the lyrics with their transient themes and shifting thought. For the poem "Ann Garner" really does show the "promise" attributed to Agee by Messrs. Benet and MacLeish. In it is a genuine and deep feeling for the story the poet is telling--the story of a lonely woman whose only child was dead at birth. Drawing on his own experience in the Cumberland Mountains, Agee makes a living thing of the feel of the earth, the surge...
...best. The verse moves smoothly and well, with no interruption for the rather fine thought of the poem. Here, as in the other long poem, "Epithalamium," Agee's curiously transposed and unusually-used-adjectives do not take away from the lines their meaning. For, in what Mr. MacLeish's introduction describes as "a vocabulary at once personal to the poet and appropriate to the intention", Agee has formed the habit of expressing his individuality by seizing upon adjectives and forcing them to describe objects normally foreign them to describe objects normally foreign to their acquaintance, and that from a most...
...Morrison C. Haviland '37, Everett B. Helm 1G, Hugh F. Hinckley '37, James C. Hopkins '38, Arthur R. Humphreys 2G, Walter C. Humstone '35, Herbert V. Kibrick '38, William G. Kirby '35, Morris E, Lasker '38, John B. Little '36, Milton Lottman '36, David P. McAllester '38, Kenneth MacLeish '38, Adolf W. Marburg '37, Richard B. Mather 1G, George H. Nicholson 1G, Everett H. Perkins '35, Thomas L. Perry '37, Marcy S. Powell 4G, Ellwood M. Rabenold '37, Arthur H. Rice '36, Charles B. Rockwell '36, Selden T. Rodgers '36, Howard E. Roman '36, Karl E. Schevill '37, Fred...
...biographies of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Richelieu, Andrew Jackson, Queen Elizabeth, Grover Cleveland. Theodore Roosevelt, Marie Antoinette; autobiographies of Clarence Darrow, Lincoln Steffens, Alice B. Toklas; Beveridge and the Progressive Era, The War of Independence, The Grain Race, Stars Fell on Alabama, Of Thee I Sing, poems of Archibald MacLeish, Diego Rivera's Portrait of America, The New Dealers, Farewell to Reform, Vols. 3, 4 & 5 of Mark Sullivan's Our Times, Yachts Under Sail, Tobacco Road, Obscure Destinies, Union Square, One More Spring, Rabble in Arms, Road to Nowhere, Christmas Tree in the Woods...