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...Library of Congress. The album's theme, Williams explains, is suffering and social involvement-"the passion of modern poetry"-rather than personal love. The selection is personal, sometimes questionable, but stellar nonetheless. It includes T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell, W. H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, Robert Graves and Archibald MacLeish, plus many others whose voices will not be heard again, notably William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Theodore Roethke, E. E. Cummings. Robert Frost sounds as homey as a neighbor chatting in the kitchen: Robinson Jeffers, proclaiming that violence is "the bloody sire of all the world's values...
Quoting at length from Archibald MacLeish, Pusey said that contemporary civilization fancies itself "the first to look at man as he is and to dare to see him." But these claims to primal realism are false. The Greek view of man was equally "realistic," seeing "the defeated hero, Prometheus on the bloody stone...
...spend a thoughtful academic year at Harvard, taking whatever courses appealed to them. These permissive annual fellowships were made possible by a gift from Mrs. Lucius W. Nieman in memory of her husband, founder of the Milwaukee Journal. Except for the first year's class when Poet Archibald MacLeish was curator, every Nieman fellow has shared the same counselor during his days at Harvard. But last week Nieman Curator Louis M. Lyons, 66, was preparing to retire...
...published early last fall by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, was quickly recognized by critics and scholars as the definitive biography of Keats. It represents a twenty-five year study of Keats on Bate's part, beginning with his undergraduate thesis, Negative Capability, published in 1939. Archibald MacLeish, the last Harvard professor to win a Pulitzer Prize (for Collected Poems in 1953) commented that "more than any other English poet John Keats needs a biographer who can understand him as a man. The great importance of W.J. Bate's book is the proof it offers that that biographer...
...Midst laurels stood: Archibald MacLeish, 71, named Amherst's poet in residence to succeed the late Robert Frost; Playwright-Producer Sir Tyrone Guthrie, 63, installed in the honorary post of chancellor of Queen's University in Belfast, succeeding Britain's late World War II strategist, Lord Alanbrooke; Poet and Critic Allen Tate, 64, awarded the $5,000 Chancie and William Booth Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets by a board of such peers as W. H. Auden and Randall Jarrell; Architect Le Corbusier (born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris), 76, promoted to grand officier, next to highest...