Word: bynner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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EDEN TREE-Witter Bynner-Knopf ($2.50). In the U.S. a poet's lot is not a happy one. Exception: Edgar Albert Guest, whom most of his fellow poets do not regard as a poet at all. Typical modern U.S. poetry does not sell for a good reason: misnamed "lyric," it is actually introspective, exhibitionist, an effort on the poet's part to escape from intellectual nightmare. Witter Bynner's poetic cosmos is top-heavy with intellect but more objective than most; he does not get hysterical about it. His poems are not great but they are masculine...
...Author. In 1916 "Emanuel Morgan" and "Anne Knish" published Spectra, a little book of free verse so cleverly written it fooled many a critic into serious praise. "Anne Knish" was Arthur Davison Ficke; "Emanuel Morgan" was Witter Bynner. A Harvardman, tall and dark, with a high, shining forehead, Bynner has been through the literary mill: as assistant editor of McClure's Magazine, advisory editor to publishers, instructor of English, lecturer on poetry. His two sidelines are poetry and American-Indian and Chinese art. With Kiang Kang-hu he translated a Chinese anthology, Jade Mountain. He lives in Santa...
When the Phi Beta Kappa Society met this year at Amherst, Phi Beta Kappas heard and applauded Member Bynner's Eden Tree...
...criticism of the Dramatic Club production of the Witter Bynner's "Cake" must be made with the fact in mind that, after all, we are not considering a professional performance. As an amateur first night it is fair enough...
...sure to find the "indulgence" ample fare. "Cake" may not cause the rafters of Brattle Hall to ring with unrestrained laughter, but there are certain to be wry smiles up Cantabrigian sleeves, as this or that familiar platitude is aired in the quaint garb which Mr. Bynner has provided. Like the three-year-old we shall eat the frosting which he has spread on his delectation, leaving the more solid fare to the erudite, if there be any such in attendance, unrepelled at the prospect of a "fantasy in verse...