Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final part, a lecture on "Some-roots in English Poetry," Professor Hillyer decries free verse because it has broken with the traditions of English poetry. "It is quite clear," he adds, "that a good poet must be at home in his countryside and his world, and must be at one with the great spirit and traditions of the past." But it is hard to agree completely that new form cannot be found for new thoughts, and that such expression can not also be poetry. Be that as it may, however, Mr. Hillyer as a poet and a teacher has written...
...English I--In last two meetings of class, Wednesday, May 25 and Wednesday, June...
...last week against the Daily Worker, its editor, Clarence A. Hathaway, and Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party, by Max Eastman, author (Enjoyment of Laughter) and lecturer, whose skillful translations of Trotsky's works have done much to keep Trotsky's ideas current in the English-speaking world. Author Eastman charged that the Daily Worker had finally gone too far, sued for $250,000 in damages. Plaintiff Eastman: "I am suing . . . because I consider it my civic duty. . . . Every man who believes in ... democratic civilization as against tyranny and barbarism ought to> fight the American Communist...
...pagan delight in the "rabble senses." The most polished of the prolific Powys brothers (John Cowper Powys, T. F. Powys), Llewelyn is also the most uneven. But even cautious critics rank three of his ten books-Ebony and Ivory, Skin for Skin, The Cradle of God-among the minor English classics...
...collection of 41 essays ranging in subject from the English countryside to the paintings of Peter Breughel, from God to gypsies, Earth Memories is not the best example of Powys' writing. But its shortcomings are more than redeemed by Critic Van Wyck Brooks's eloquent introduction to the book, which pays a high tribute to Llewelyn Powys the writer, a higher tribute to Powys the teacher. "Let no one suppose," says Brooks, "that Llewelyn Powys is merely another nature-writer, eloquent, observant and persuasive. He has something to say to this age of despair and darkness...