Word: victus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like the prose, the poetry ranges from good t disappointing. In "Jonathan Victus," Peter MacVeagh chose his theme with care, nurtured it through four fine stanzas, and then uprooted it poetically with a jarring last verse. Similarly, Benjamin La Farge, in his "letter To a Friend," includes phrases like "where old men snore" which may satisfy a demanding rhyme scheme but which destroy the tone of the poem...