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...like to live like this!" wails Phyllis McGinley Hayden. "I like to live quietly and peacefully...
Diversity. Not many suburban housewives get invited to the White House. Nor, for that matter, do many poets. This week, when Phyllis McGinley, a pleasant matron of 60 who could pass for 45 and does not try to, a woman who just misses being pretty and does not care, presents herself at the White House, she will find herself on a program that includes only one other poet -Mark Van Doren. Asked to recite one of her own poems, she chose In Praise of Diversity, originally written for a Columbia commencement, which ends...
Depth of Emotion. Such agile verse, composed over three decades, has established Phyllis McGinley as one of the most widely read and acclaimed poets in the U.S., with a harvest of honors that include the Pulitzer Prize, Notre Dame's Laetare Medal and more honorary degrees than she can remember (it's nine, she thinks). Although her métier is light verse, Poet W. H. Auden sets her high on the Parnassian hill. "Where do you place work like Pope's Rape of the Lock?" he asks. "You could equally call it light verse or marvelous...
...audience apparently agrees. The Love Letters of Phyllis McGinley, first published in 1954, has sold 80,000 copies in hard cover and paperback. Times Three, the 1961 anthology embracing her life's work, has sold 60,000 in hard cover alone. From its pages gleams a talent that soars felicitously the full length of the human scheme, from man's perversity...
...this sensitive evocation of adolescence, which its author considers her best verse, Phyllis McGinley's daughter Julie was the model. The McGinley muse, albeit a distant traveler, alights most often on the ordinary landscapes of motherhood and domesticity-the only two professions that consistently outrank the poet. Since the 1930s, Housewife Hayden has been singing the substantial pleasures of the hearth, and contentedly reminding herself...