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Among the works being sold are manuscripts of Archibald MacLeish and William Alfred, paintings by Jack Wolfe and Carl Nelson, and prints by Ben Shahn and Antonio Frasconi. Of particular interest are the manuscripts of Donald Hall and May Sarton, which contain poetry both in final and working drafts...
...long run it is no easier to compare poets with poets than it is to compare peaches with blueberries. The epitaph that Cummings probably would have liked best had nothing to do with the critical ranking of poets. It was spoken by Fellow Poet Archibald MacLeish: "There are very few people who deserve the word poet. Cummings was one of them...
...this spirit that the National Committee for an Effective Congress (among its better-known leaders are Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger. father of White House Staffer Arthur Jr., Poet Archibald MacLeish, Harvard Law Professor Mark De Wolfe Howe, Political Scientist Hans Morgenthau) last week issued an unusual public report that amounted to a devastating blast against Teddy and an audible tut-tut at his big brother...
...MacLeish asked his friends for advice on the ending of a new play, on which he has been working for three years. "I know the actors," he said, "and their relations to each other; and I feel the end will be just wonderful, when...
...problem stumping MacLeish is that he is not certain about "the feelings of the characters for the myth within which they moving." The new play, he said, will employ the same four-beat line...