Word: bardes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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VOLUMINOUS editions of Shakespeare's works have appeared until at the present time it would seem that every need had been satiated. But this new one-volume compilation of the immortal bard's plays and poems justifies its existence by its formal and in-expensiveness...
...HOUSE OF THE TITANS-A.E.-Macmillan ($1.50). Latest collection of poems of George Russell, ageing Irish patriot and bard...
...often been remarked by men of letters that a cold and wintry clime tends to discourage the poetic spirit, and that many a melodious bard in embryo has been frozen to an early silence by inclement weather. Shelley, Keats, and Byron, they say, flew like birds from foggy England to a land where pomegranates bloom at Christmas, and so must all young men who seek the favor of the Muses. Be this as it may, however, it is an undoubted and indisputable fact that the lines proudly gleaming in print below were inspired by the pedestrial slushiness Cambridge has suffered...
Immortal Lines Penned by the Bard of Dunster House After a Noctunal Excursion Across the Court of Same...
Every year for seven years Father Hub-bard has gone to explore this lurid peninsula, accompanied by three or four husky footballers. He has burned off his shoes scrambling up the sides of volcanoes which other scientists had thought extinct, has gone down inside them to find he could melt copper twelve inches below the lava surface. Marooned by storms, he has used his sled dogs for food. In 1930 he took the first pictures of Aniakchak; the next year, with a pilot, he made the first airplane flight over it (narrowly escaping death when air currents rushing into...