Draft toward "What's the Use of Poetry?"
Item
Swenson, May. 1967. “Draft Toward ‘What’s the Use of Poetry?’”. Draft Toward "A Poem Happens to Me", May Swenson in the Modern Literature Collection, accessed March 29, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/swenson/item/26497
- Title
- Draft toward "What's the Use of Poetry?"
- Description
- First five pages of a typescript draft of "What's the Use of Poetry?", a lecture delivered at the Pitt Press Poetry Conference. The draft is 11 pages total, with light holograph corrections.
- In this lecture, Swenson debates if poetry influences society and opens the reader's minds to what is happening in society.
- Date
- 1967: March
- Type
- Lectures
- Format
- paper
- JPEG
- Creator
- Swenson, May
- Extent
- 5 leaves, recto only
- Language
- English
- Relation
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Draft toward "A Poem Happens to Me"
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Draft toward "The Experience of Poetry in a Scientific Age"
- Identifier
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MSS111_II_2_Prose_What's_the_Use_of_Poetry_05.jpg - Rights
- In copyright
- Subject
- Swenson, May--Authorship
Swenson, May. 1967. “Draft Toward ‘What’s the Use of Poetry?’”. Draft Toward "A Poem Happens to Me", May Swenson in the Modern Literature Collection, accessed March 29, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/swenson/item/26497