Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poet Archibald MacLeish, bucking the pessimistic tide that often damns man's material progress, dashed off a ten-stanza Poem in a Festival of Art in Boston at the Public Garden, then headed there to read it. Gist of Poem: "Is it the city or heart that's wrong . . . / O hush! There is a silence in this place, / For all the chattering gears that grind, a grace / Of present expectation in this ground . . . / No city stands but is the image of the heart...
Allen Tate, poet Litt.D...
Citation: "To scholarship you have brought an understanding of the questions which modern man puts to the life of Christ. As a critic-being yourself a poet-you have clarified the spiritual urgency that informs the outstanding poetry of our time...
Nobel Prize poet Thomas Stearns Eliot '10 was reported resting comfortably in a London Hospital yesterday, after he had been removed from the liner Queen Mary at Southhampton. Returning from an April lecture at the University of Minnesota and from visits to relatives in Cambridge, he was stricken with a coronary late last week while on the high seas...
...doctor at the French Hospital said that the 67-year old poet "won't have to stay here too long--just a few days rest is all he needs...