POETS AND MORE POETS

Three important personages from the world of poetry have read from their own works or lectured on campus this fall and three more are scheduled for later in the year under a new program of bringing major poets to Hanover. The announcement was made to the undergraduates by Prof. Richard Eberhart '26, Dartmouth's poet-in-residence and an important personage in poetry in his own right.

Heretofore poets asked to Dartmouth through the auspices of the General Lecture Committee or the Charles Butcher Fund have been for the most part young and experimental or mid-career. Now, new funds have been allocated to the English Department to make it possible to invite one major poet each term. Some prose writers may be invited from time to time.

Cecil Day Lewis, British poet and critic, spoke this past month as the first of the "majors." Earlier in the term the community had heard James Dickey and a young Irishman, Richard Murphy, read from their works.

Allen Tate and his wife, Isabella Gardner, both American poets, will be on campus January 14 and 15, and Robert Penn Warren will speak on March 4. Tate, who like Warren was a member of the southern group known as "the Fugitives," has won numerous prizes and honors for his poetry, including the Bollingen Prize. His wife is the author of two volumes of lyrical poetry, The Looking Glass being her latest. A Pulitzer Prize winner in both fiction and poetry, Robert Penn Warren is celebrated for his novels, All the King's Men being the best known; but in Hanover he will be giving a reading from his poetry.