Word: parnassianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 poetry. There is a certain way of writing which one calls light, but underneath it can carry a great depth of emotion." The McGinley verse, says Poet...