Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help out a little bit. Here's two-fifty." She thanked him, but it was not until she was in the subway that she noticed she was holding a check not for a mere $2.50 but for $250. It was signed by the prestigious British-born U.S. poet, W. H. (for Wystan Hugh) Auden. "Poets do look a bit unpressed, don't they?" she mused happily...
Individuals belong to the public only when they participate in general activities," he said. The poet must find his audience among men and women not when they are part of the "public," but when they are feeling and thinking as individuals, he stated...
Muir spoke in New Lecture Hall on "The Public and the Poet," the fourth in his series of six lectures as Norton Professor...
...public is a creation of modern mass communication and its language is the cliche, he said. If the poet adopts this language, he will only hurt his art, the search for truth to which he owes his first allegiance, and will thereby further degrade the public...
...poet must not, however, use this refusal to pander to public taste as an excuse for obscurantism and the rejection of all audiences, Muir asserted. A poet always needs an audience for which to create. Often he doesn't find it--or it doesn't find him--until late in his career. He must therefore create it in his imagination. "Many of Yeats's poems were written this way, before he had found their audience," Muir said...