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Born in York, England, where his father is a doctor, young Auden at first doted on photography, engineering, motorcycles and whales. But he soon turned to poetry, by the early 1930s was the leader of Britain's famed, leftist "Auden Circle." Like most original poets, Auden experimented constantly with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Farewell to Fantasy | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

Secretary Goodall, a Congregationalist, was turned down for missionary work because of poor health. So he became the London Missionary Society's secretary for India, the South Seas and Papua. He likes to putter in his garden, play the violin, go to the theater with his wife, a doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Missionaries | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

In the stories, all traces of the magazine's former old-rose-and-lace preciousness seem to have disappeared, but as is natural enough, some of it lingers on in the poetry. Old idols cannot be so easily and quickly uncrowned. Obscurity, still one of them, reigns supreme in Phemister...

Author: By R. S. F., | Title: ON THE SHELF | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

Exhibits of printing and the graphic arts have already been arranged in the Exhibition Room and the room given by Philip Hofer '21, Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts. In the Oval Lobby collections of works by Milton, Donne and Mather are on exhibition. The ancient records of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUGHTON LIBRARY, FIRST NEW YARD EDIFICE IN LAST TEN YEARS, WILL BE DEDICATED TONIGHT | 2/28/1942 | See Source »

The English Department will have decided that F. Scott Fitzgerald is far enough in the past to have theses written about him. History and Literature professors will speak of the strain of mysticism running from John Donne through T. S. Eliot to A. A. Milne and the Freudian significance of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fantasia in D Minus | 2/3/1942 | See Source »

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