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Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, will receive the 1956 Boston Arts Festival poetry award at the annual festival this June. The award, carrying a stipend of $500, is given to a contemporary poet who has made extensive contributions to the art, or has distinguished himself through a recent work...
...spiritually impotent because we have cut ourselves off from the poem," Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of English and Rhetoric, declared in the March Atlantic Monthly...
...MacLeish, who is on leave in the Virgin Islands, went on to maintain that through poetry we reach a concrete understanding of experiences, as distinguished from the abstract knowledge which the sciences present. Thus we can understand the ends of our actions, as well as their means, he said...
...trustees include Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, Louis L. Jaffe, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, Harry Levin '33, professor of English and Comparative Literature, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Perry Rathbone '33, Elliot L. Richardson '41, and C. Rodgers Burgin...
Although the program's relationship with the Summer School is at present just one of cooperation, MacLeish has told Morris that he would like to see this become the central part of the Summer School in future years...