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...communication mean? Not much I think, except your own sense of power-for one issue-over persons whom you obviously don't understand nor even recognize. Jeffers is a vasty poetaster, William Carlos Williams is a poetaster, Prokosch is an accomplished poetaster, Taggard is empty, nondescript, Donald Davidson is poeticulous, Fearing is a poeticule, say you. Where is your badge for all this authority? Probably it's a book by I. A. Richards or perhaps the history of the French Academy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Recently appointed by Dennett and Richard H. Sullivan '39, President of the Student Council, to a committee to select new books for the Stillman Infirmary library were Ellsworth Grant '39, chairman, Frederick E. Pamp '39, and Frank P. Davidson '39. The group will have a $100 appropriation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHLESINGER, LEIGHTON APPOINTED FOR P. B. H. | 1/10/1939 | See Source »

...Donald Davidson, 45, is a Tennessean, professor of English at Tennessee's Vanderbilt University, a leading member of the Southern agrarians (Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, et al.). Like the rest of those resolute, nostalgic patriots, he believes that the thread of U. S. destiny was lost somewhere in the tangle of the Civil War. As citizens the agrarians think they can tie that thread into modern life, as poets they feel that the thread has gone for good. In Lee in the Mountains (Houghton Mifflin, $2), a book of short narrative poems, Davidson's heroes are dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nine and Two | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Despite Donald Davidson's sincerity and competence, his attempts to revive a live present by hypodermic injections of a dead past are poeticulous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nine and Two | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...Editor of the magazine, John I. B. McCulloch, is a graduate student hero in the field of Inter-American relations, and the Managing Editor, Frank P. Davidson '38, was founder and first president of the "Harvard Guardian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MEN SPONSOR PAN-AMERICAN REVIEW | 12/6/1938 | See Source »

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