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...Whatever Auslander is, Benet is a criticaster! . . . One of those responsible for the low tone of American criticism-the substitution of praise or blame for analysis and actual taste. . . . Get right about that Benet, Van Doren crew! . . . Professional backslappers and boosters of their own kind! Look at the record and give that boy who wrote the Auslander review a big hearty kiss from...
WITH paeans of praise from two such distinguished authorities as Stephen Vincent Benet and Archibald MacLeish, James Agee '32, president of the Advocate several years ago, has started forth on his poetic career with this slim volume of his verses. In this little book are presented a varied assortment of lyrics, several long poems, quite a collection of sonnets, and a curious "New Yorker"--like prose "Dedication...
...these the long poems are by far the best--in fact head and shoulders above the many sonnets telling of a doubting love, or the lyrics with their transient themes and shifting thought. For the poem "Ann Garner" really does show the "promise" attributed to Agee by Messrs. Benet and MacLeish. In it is a genuine and deep feeling for the story the poet is telling--the story of a lonely woman whose only child was dead at birth. Drawing on his own experience in the Cumberland Mountains, Agee makes a living thing of the feel of the earth...
...Author. Paul Engle was born and raised on his father's ranch in Iowa. He went to school at Cedar Rapids, worked lis way through Coe College selling news-Dapers. jerking soda. At the University of Iowa Stephen Vincent Benet gave him encouragement. As a Rhodes Scholar from Iowa he has completed his first year at Oxford (Merton College). Engle likes swimming and horses and is now "writing very hard on a horse novel." A first volume of verse, The Warm Earth, was published in 1933 by the Yale University press in its Younger Poets series...
...founded by Banjamin Berkelyey Hotchkiss, American engineer and inventor of the Hotchkiss Machine Gun, born in Watertown, Connecticut, in 1826. British, French, and American capital are intermingled in the company now, but the managing director is a self-expatriated ex-ensign of the U. S. Navy. Lawrence Vincent Benet, uncle of Stephen Vincent Benet, the poet. His American citizenship did not stop him from selling tons of guns and other war materials to Japan at the same time that Secretary of Siate Stimson was vainly trying to keep the Japanese out of Manchuria...