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...state of poetry has fallen alarmingly in the last two centuries Edwin Muir, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, declared in his opening lecture last night in New Lecture Hall...
...Edwin Muir, Scottish poet and critic, will deliver the first of this year's Charles Eliot Norton lectures tonight. His talk, entitled "The Ballads: The Natural Estate," will start at 8:30 p.m. in New Lecture Hall...
...Muir will give two more lectures this month on consecutive Wednesday evenings, all based on the general topic of "The Estate of Poetry." He will give a second series of three lectures on the same subject in the spring...
According to Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Muir is "one of the foremost living poets in English." He is in residence at the University this year as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry...
Something from all of the lands and people he has known appears in his poetry--"not obviously, but in many ways"--Muir explains. His poetic understanding and traditional simplicity were recognized three years ago when Queen Elizabeth named him Commander of the British Empire. Muir's works have not yet achieved wide fame in this country, however. Perhaps tomorrow's lecture will further American understanding and appreciation of this lonely traveler...