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Speaking at the inauguration of Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., Poet Archibald MacLeish, 78, offered some thoughts aimed equally at the rebellious young and the apprehensive Silent Majority. Conflicts at the nation's universities, he said, "are not disciplinary troubles, whatever the generation now in middle age may say about them. They are not, as the more romantic of the young believe, 'revolutionary,' meaning political, troubles. They are troubles at the heart of human life, troubles in the culture itself, in the civilization, troubles that cannot be cured by ranting at the Government, however misguided or misdirected...
...outgrown sensibility, I learned about Pope and Dryden and rime royall, and I feel more for poetry because of it. But truly, Allen Ginsberg is more of a poet for us here, now, than W. H. Auden. We have more to learn from Denise Levertov than from Archibald MacLeish. We must be aware that there are writers who are looking ahead as far as any men, and when we are told that Elizabeth Bishop has written the best book of poems for 1969, we should not believe it. Elizabeth Bishop wrote brilliantly for the 1940s. But we have not even...
...citizens in Prague as well as Paris, Bucharest as well as Boston, Warsaw as well as Wapakoneta, Ohio. In practically every other corner of the earth, newspapers broke out what pressmen refer to as their "Second Coming" type to hail the lunar landing. Poets hymned the occasion. Wrote Archibald MacLeish...
Archibald MacLeish, L.H.D , poet...
...what must surely rank as one of the greatest physical adventures in history was, unlike the immortal explorations of the past, infinitely more than a reconnaissance of geography or unknown elements. It was a journey into man's future, a hopeful but urgent summons, in Poet Archibald MacLeish's words, "to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold-brothers who know now they are truly brothers...