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Lawyers Should Know Poetry, MacLeish Advises Coffee Hour
A lawyer should know poetry to understand what a man is and what his relation to the world is, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, told the Law School Coffee Hour yesterday.
MacLeish discussed his dual concept of the world, in which one accepts evil, but knows that man has absolute value, which is greater than the world's evil.
Poems are cases in their most specific forms, MacLeish said.
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