Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike painters, most contemporary poets are active in public affairs. William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens, to mention a few, are doctor and insurance salesman respectively. Of this group, Archibald MacLeish has been the closest to the nerve center of public opinion, political foray, and philosophic debate. Assistant Secretary of...
On the offensive platoon, Caldwell still has most of last year's big line, but he has had to rebuild the backfield completely. Along with Kazmaier, Dick Pivirotto, George Stevens, and Russ McNeil were lost at graduation.
U.S. poetry was fizzing when Harriet Monroe of Chicago started Poetry magazine in 1912. By opening her pages to some of the best young fizzers, she got some "firsts" to be proud of: T. S. Eliot's Prufrock, Carl Sandburg's Chicago, early verse by Ezra Pound, Wallace...
This week Poetry celebrates its 40th anniversary with an oversize, 95-page issue. Editor-Poet Karl Shapiro wrote his best contributors, asking for gems. Though the issue shines with famous names in contemporary poetry-W. H. Auden, E. E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams-most of the...
Auden's poem is probably the best of the lot: a description of "a plain without a feature," where masses of men march to the command of a dictator and nobody knows "Of any world where promises were kept/Or one could weep because another wept." But even this poem...