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American's distrust of art and tradition--in fact the American refusal to grow up--is reflected in Walt Whitman's poetry, Thornton Wilder said last night. He delivered the last of the Charles Eliot Norton lectures before a capacity crowd in New Lecture Hall...
This self-conscious individualism has of American literature, Wilder explained. Poets like Whitman, Thoreau, and Emily Dickinson have tried too hard for spontaneous art, and often neglected the calculation necessary for great poetry...
After this talk, the informal reminiscing of friends and past members of WHRB will be broadcast. Dean Leighton, Thornton Wilder, Norton Professor of Poetry, and Archibald MacLeish, Bolyston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, have been invited to take part in these discussions...
...Wilder imagined the Dickinson household as seen through the works of the poet. He saw an intelligent young girl who was adored but dominated by her overbearing father. Socially restricted by strict Calvinistic customs of the town, Wilder said Miss Dickinson sought relief from her loneliness through writing poetry. Since this poetry was not written for publication, it was free of inhibitions and convention...
...Wilder went on to point out that army of Dickinson's early poems are immature and are not representative of the poet...