I really think I would have liked Reed Whittemore,
but now he's dead, and I no more can see no more
this former double Poet Laureate, etc. etc.
Whittemore died in April. He wrote in the early 60's
"“When I look at history, literary and social, I find that I side pretty steadily with history’s eccentrics,” Mr. Whittemore wrote in the essay “But Seriously,” published in the early 1960s. “I don’t mean all the mad astrologists and mystics — the best satirists have not, I think, gravitated toward exotic ideals and idealisms — but simply the mundane eccentrics who have stood on the sidelines with the game in progress, and made frosty remarks instead of cheering.”