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...success of his Recessional, written for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Last week 69-year-old Mr. Kipling released his poem free of copyright to anyone who would print it in full.* Silent was England's Poet Laureate, shy John Masefield. In Manhattan bold Spoon River Anthologist Edgar Lee Masters commented with a shrug: "The King and the Sea is nothing but verse-almost prose in fact. It can't be compared with Recessional. That is a cannibal hymn and I've always despised the damned thing, but it has a kind of swing...
Married. Huddie Ledbetter. ("Lead Belly"), 46, Negro singer and guitar player, twice-pardoned murderer (TIME, Jan. 14); and Martha Promise, Shreveport. La. laundress; at the Wilton, Conn. home of John Avery Lomax, music anthologist...
...Scott, Edith Wharton, Glenway Wescott, Thornton Wilder. Readers may raise puzzled eyebrows at lesser-known names: Carl Becker, Albert Halper, Eleanor Rowland Wembridge. Nowhere to be found are such names as Upton Sinclair, Conrad Allen, Hervey Allen, Louis Bromfield, Walter Lippmann, T. S. Stribling. Looking back on his collection Anthologist Van Doren proudly says: "American literature has grown up. It deals with all the topics that literature deals with anywhere...
...Author. Walter de la Mare, 58, English minor poet, anthologist, editor and bedtime-verse-writer (he is most widely known for his children's verse & tales), has written many a prose book which critics rank as high as any of his verse. An enthusiastic fictioneer, he sometimes lectures on the art. Married, he has four children, lives in London. Other books: Songs of Childhood, Poems, The Listeners and Other Poems, The Return, Peacock Pie, The Veil and Other Poems, The Riddle and Other Stories...
Mark Van Doren '14, his brother, critic, anthologist (World Anthology of Poetry...