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...about to quote the words of William Butler Yeats. Nearing three score and ten (he will be 70 on June 13), Poet Yeats has written enough and well enough in his long life to satisfy most men. But few poets are willing to die before their time; though his Muse is not as young as she was, Poet Yeats still invites her to his board. His latest collation was slim pickings-a one-act play, a dozen poems, a few pages of commentary-compared to the poetic feasts he used to set forth...
...Milton resounds with Bellockian bellows, on every subject from the present state of the nation to the sniveling rascality of a 17th Century renegade. On Milton the poet he casts a keen professional eye, melting with reverence most often but sometimes, when he catches Milton sporting with a mediocre Muse, sparkling with contempt. To Milton the man he is bluffly antipathetic, regards him as the arch-heretic of an heretical age, a humorless megalomaniac...
...Elizabethan days every dramatist was a poet, every playgoer a poetry lover. But nowadays poets generally leave their Muse behind when they go to town. To most moderns, poetic drama means selfconscious, little-theatre stuff-&-nonsense. Ambitious Poet Archibald MacLeish (Conquistador), seeing no good reason for the modern notion that Poetry is by nature a bad actor, has tried his hand at a verse-play. His first attempt. Panic, took him 16 months to write.* Playgoing readers will find it an exciting experiment, will hope Author MacLeish's example may attract some others...
...became a precocious adept. At ten he had embarked on his career, soon found there was more to it than gravy. In England he nearly starved, but he learned the language and what little there was to know about English cookery. His peregrinations over Europe in pursuit of his muse were interrupted by military service, but even in the army his talents came to the fore, got him the pleasant billet of cook to a general. A civilian again, he married, took his bride to the U. S. to set up for himself. In Lynbrook, Long Island, he started...
...Death muses his Muse most...