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Robert L Generati By David Havird Robert Lowell, who will receive the USC Award for Distinction in Literature at 8:30 p.m. Monday in the new Business Administration Auditorium, is generally acknowledged by literary critics and students as the leading poet of his generation. Lowell was born in 1917. His generation includes such noted figures as Randall Jarrell, James Dickey, John Berryman, Delmore Schwartz, and Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Wilbur and Philip Larkin. Lowell's appearance on the campus is sponsored by the University Union Ideas and Issues Committee. In addition to the reading Monday night, Lowell will talk informally with students and faculty at 2 p.m. Monday in the Russell House Gallery. Lowell was born in Boston and attended St. Mark's preparatory school where he became acquainted with poet Richard Eberhart who was teaching there. By the time he entered Harvard, he decided to prepare himself as a poet. After attending Harvard two years, he transferred to Kenyon College in Ohio to study under John Crowe Ransom who had led the Fugitive Movement in poetry during the 1920's and was acknowledged as the finest Southern poet of his time. Lowell graduated from Kenyon with summa cum laude honors in 1940. Lowell later attended Louisiana State University where he studied Colum welcomes y Cream Sho] items at fld Sfor 1/ price. a party. SThese price (acr< owell: on's Best with Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks, a noted critic.. During that time he formed a 1-:' long friendship with Allen Tate when he camped on Tate's yard in the Cumberland. In 1947, Lowell was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Lord Weary's Castle, and in 1967, the National Book Award for Life Studies. In 1962, he was awarded the Bollingen Poetry Translation Prize for Imitations. Lowell's early poetry is characterized by form and rhyme although the fluidity of his line is. never compromised. Much of it is ornate, generally romantic, and perhaps.anachronisticto his recent poetry. With Life Studies, Lowell's style changed. For most purposes rhyme was dropped, with the exceptionsof a few poems, and the lines became shorter. The poetic images became sharper and more effective as conventional poeticisms were juxtaposed with the "common" vision of every-day life. This style was continued in the following volume, For the Union Dead". His most recent four volumes, Notebook, History, For Lizzie and Harriet, and The Dolphin, represent a sequence of fourteen line poems on a generally related theme. In these poems. many of which are confessional and autobiographical, the style is almost prosaic. Nevertheless, the poetic vision remains sharply focussed and the control im peccable. bia Sherat outo our Sandw pe. Buy any of o 1 price and get tl Bring your frien s good until April ! Beer & Juke -box mu. )S from the Coliseum: '""x s I" . ...... A .Aal Charlie Byrd, right, and Richard Phillips, two of the country's top guitarists, will present "An Evening of Music for Two Guitars" under the auspices of the South Carolina Arts Commission and USC at the Russell House patio at 8 p.m. on Byrd, P ilili Two of the country's top Residence with uitarists, Charlie Byrd and mission while I Lichard Phillips, will present "An ternationally kno :vening of Music for Two Guitars" A typical pro t 8 p.m. April 17, on the Russell includes jazz, cl Louse patio. light rock music. The program is financed by the the Voice of Amer outh Carolina Arts Commission him as a music nd presented by the University satility in the 1 Jnion Cultural Series Committee. guitar surpasses Phillips is Musician-in- else." Virginia nativi composition and I :the jazz -oriented ] E Music School in 'n forming several .i War II as a jazz :: last 1940s, he cha guitar and move h D.C., where he "ch Thomas Simmor Papas. In 1954 renowned Spa Sguitarist Andres llr ice Cream ~'Byrd has produ pesnlrecord ~dozen others. H e second oe a:s:"n ~*~Music Hall and at Sclubs and jazz f( d l several symphon, S an D anByrd has perfo 1,000 college conc4 ~:years. He has Stwice at the White Like Byrd, F : experience with Slargely with jazz 1 entered the Peat Colurn S1013 Barn C'unday E'ch -Wednesday Radio Prog April 17. The concert is open to the public and free. Phillips is in South Carolina for eight months as Musician-in-Residence with the Arts Commission, and Byrd is here for a four-day period for a. series of concerts with Phillips. ps Perform the Arts Com 3yrd is an in- 'Like Byrd, wn guitarist. gram of Byrd's assical, pbp and Willis Conover of Phillips' earliest ica has described r ian whose "ver iterature of the that of anyone experience with , Byrd studied music theory at lartnett National the guitar was New York, per ears after World guitarist. In the nged to classical largely with d to Washington, studied under s and Sophocles he studied with jazz bands.' nish classical Segovia. ced more than 40 albums and has of Music, studying classical guitar more than two under Papas. In 1968, he e has played on graduated from Peabody as the including Mike first guitarist in the country to larson, and Kraft receive a degree in that in numerous night strument. stivals and with In 1966 he was invited to perform ~orchestras. in Segovia's Master Class and in rmed more than 1967 and 1968 participated in the ~rts in the last 10 International Guitar Course under also performed the Venezelan Virtuoso, Alirio Diza House. at the University of Caracas. 'hillips' earliest Phillips has toured extensively in the guitar was the US, the Far East and Orient, ands. In 1964 he South America and Puerto Rico. diy Conservatory The concert is free. *Indepenident isWVelcome Evangelistic nbia Evangelical Church iwell Street--- I block north of Capstone ool 9:45 a.m.-services 11 a.m. Prayer Meeting 7:15 p.m. 5 .m ram Sunday 8 a.m. WQ.(I, ( I)ial 1470) Rhett Sanders- - -Pastor