Mr. Parisi said it was by far the largest single donation ever made to an institution devoted to poetry.
Then there would be a section devoted to poetry, followed by one on prose, drama, and essays.
In May, when a rapper was invited to perform at the White House as part of an evening devoted to poetry, it was met with predictable conservative outrage.
Lifelong literary friendships were made, and Phoenix, a continuation of the magazine he had begun at Liverpool, became exclusively devoted to poetry.
Although Hopkins had been devoted to poetry during his years at Oxford, he had written almost nothing in the previous seven years, having sworn off poetry when he decided to become a Jesuit.
In a Times essay disparaging an issue of the magazine O devoted to poetry, in which Oliver was interviewed by Maria Shriver, the critic David Orr wrote of her poetry that "one can only say that no animals appear to have been harmed in the making of it".
As such, it's familiar to the millions of Americans who have heard it on his radio shows: "A Prairie Home Companion," which features "The News From Lake Wobegon," every Saturday afternoon, and the daily "Writer's Almanac," which is devoted to poetry and literary history.
"At that time I still harboured thoughts of becoming a Writer," Bennett recalled recently, as he has noted a couple of times in a near identical passage over the years, "(and I thought of it in capital letters), so when Auden outlined what he took to be the prerequisites of a literary life, or at any rate a life devoted to poetry, I was properly dismayed.
