Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American poet evokes as much critical excitement as Whitman. The violence of the attacks on him, no less than the unmeasured enthusiasm of his defenders, is proof of how fruitful discussion of him remains 83 years after the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Last week two new books devoted to him made it clear that the poet of democracy, with all his mysteries, ambiguities, repetitions, vagueness and contradictions, is the biggest literary fig ure the U. S. has produced...
...those who considered verse too archaic a form to be nozzled through an audio tube, Pulitzer-Prize Poet MacLeish pointed out that since radio engages only the ear, "verse has no visual presence to compete with. . . . The ear is already half poet." Poet MacLeish then proceeded to give the ears of the U. S. radio audience 30 minutes of the finest verbal music of its time...
This Thursday (10 p.m. EST), again from CBS's Workshop, Poet MacLeish speaks to half-poet ears through another verse play, Air Raid. The station announcement is followed at once by the studio director's voice addressing...
...Raid (Thurs. 10 p.m., CBS). Poet Archibald MacLeish follows Fall of the City with a second radio play produced by the Columbia Workshop...
...third visiting poet will be Mark Van Doren who is speaking sometime in December, or January; the specific dates for Frost and Van Doren have not yet been established. Van Doren is the brother of Carl Van Doren, the literary critic of the New York Herald-Tribune...