Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poet should not try to write for the public, but for individuals who are in the public, Edwin Muir, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry said last night...
...Public and the Poet" will be the subject of the fourth in a series of lectures delivered by Edwin Muir, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, in the New Lecture Hall at 8:30 p.m. tonight...
...Poet v. Poet...
...Walt Whitman and Camden bridge dispute [Feb. 6]: in dedicating the bridge to Walt Whitman, the officials concerned are honoring Whitman as a poet, not just Whitman the man. I am a Catholic and like Whitman, whatever his sexual leanings; he was a better poet than Joyce Kilmer any day. They can take Trees and throw it away and/or build their own bridge. They just don't understand Whitman or his poetry. As for the man, they might remember that during the Civil War he did as much as any man to visit, comfort and help the sick...
Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, will receive the 1956 Boston Arts Festival poetry award at the annual festival this June. The award, carrying a stipend of $500, is given to a contemporary poet who has made extensive contributions to the art, or has distinguished himself through a recent work...