Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poet Y. Critic...
...corner of the MS.-so orchids to one John Ciardi for his criticism of Anne Lindbergh's poetry. In The Unicorn, as in all her other books, she sees and thinks and feels with monotonous regularity. She may be a splendid person, but she's a lousy poet. Critic Ciardi is so right, and I'm glad he had the courage to speak...
...touting of Marxist-Leninist heroes, the U.S.S.R.'s Soviet Culture pounced upon none other than Poet Henry Wadsworth (Paul Revere's Ride) Longfellow, ballyhooed him as "a humanitarian who condemned war and demanded its abolition . . . one of the most beloved . . . poets in the world, despite attempts by modern bourgeois critics to knock him from his pedestal...
...unprepared for the stiff competition at Exeter. Had it not been for an organization called the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, he would never have bothered to apply for Exeter at all. But young LaMar gradually found his bearings. Eventually he i) was elected senior class poet at Exeter, 2) graduated summa cum laude from Harvard, 3) won a fellowship to Cambridge University, 4) published short stories in the Atlantic Monthly, and is now on the way to finishing a novel...
Collier's verbal monkeyshines are so adroit as to make the reader forget the paradox that while man may be like a monkey, a monkey is not like a man. It is all prime fun among the primates, and calls to mind the verse of a British poet in which an ape reflects on the Darwinian version of the Fall...