Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Modern critics have increased the gap between the poet and his public audience by forgetting that criticism should begin and end in enjoyment, Edwin Muir, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, charged last night...
Muir spoke in New Lecture Hall on "The Poet and the Critic" in the fifth of his six Norton lectures...
...main function of criticism is to open the joys of literature to the reader," Muir said. "But this task has been left to lesser men while the best critics have turned all their attention to what is only their secondary function, to influence the poet...
...much of his own poetry he has shyly hidden from the public only John Sweeney knows. "An eminently unpublished poet imminently publishing," according to John Mason Brown, Sweeney's study of Henry James' art criticism will be issued in London this summer. His past works include a few essays for "little" magazines, an edition of the writings of Dylan Thomas, and his 1954 Phi Beta Kappa poem "An Arch for Janus." A critical evaluation of directions in modern poetry, written in collaboration with Elizabeth Drew and a few minor poems complete his Widener listing...
This humble search for the meaning of human expression is John Sweeney's passion. "A dilletante in the best sense," as a friend described him, he approaches art with the scholar's understanding and the poet's enthusiasm...