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The Muse at the Microphone
Bishop, John Peale | February 3, 1940 issue

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The situation of radio is the situation of poetry backwards. If poetry is an art without an audience, radio is an audience without an art. So Archibald MacLeish wrote to James Angleton in a letter published last summer in "Purioso." For a poet to allow his lines to be printed on so small a scale as that provided by magazines of verse is to look for few readers or none. The book "Air Raid: A Verse Play for Radio," is addressed to that immense audience which nightly hears news broadcast. It presents through commentary and scene an imaginary event, but one all too probable in the contemporary world.

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RADIO; MACLEISH, Archibald, 1892-1982; AIR Raid (Book); BROADCAST journalism; RADIO audiences; POETS
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