Recently, three distinguished American poets, Robert Lowell, Stanley Kunitz, and William Jay Smith, gathered with one of the brilliant young Russian poets to discuss their art and its role in human understanding. The discussion, with Andrei Voznesensky was televised over WNDT/Channel 13. Here is their conversation.

Poet, playwright, and publisher T. S. ELIOT delivered at Harvard on November 21 the first Theodore Spencer Lecture in memory of his friend who was a poet, a Shakespearean scholar, and the Boylston Professor. The paper he prepared for the occasion falls into three parts; it is affectionate, calmly objective in its self-criticism, and compelling in the power of its prose. Mr. Eliot, whose play The Cocktail Party is a hit in New York and London, was educated at Harvard, at the University of Paris, and at Oxford. He edited The Criterion from 1923 to 1939, is a director of Faber & Faber, and in 1948 teas awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.