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Word: topophilia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1947-1947
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British-born Poet W. H. Auden, in a little prose flourish for Town & Country, admonished U.S. poets "to take topophilia [love of places] seriously. . . . Had I the talent . . . what lovely poems would I be writing now about Schrafft's Blue Plate Special, Stouffer's tea shop, the Brighton Beach line, the General Theological Seminary on Ninth Avenue at 21st Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Judgments | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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