Word: eusden
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Including Tate, Rowe, Gibber, Eusden...
Everyone knows Ben Jonson, Tennyson and Wordsworth, but who ever heard of Nahum Tate, Laurence Eusden, and William Whitehead? All six men share the dignity of having been poets laureate of England, a tradition that goes back 350 years. According to the 17th and most recent laureate, John Masefield, this high post "is responsible for some of the world's worst literature." Masefield died last week at 88 at the country home in Abingdon where he spent most of his time. Fortunately, he had written much of his best poetry long before George V named him laureate...
...somewhere doing something." "Everybody has a summer job here at U.C.L.A.," says Recent Grad John Wilkinson. "Anybody can just go to school," explains his friend Jeff Donfeld. "Now the prestigious thing to say is I go to school and I work in summer.' " Williams College Chaplain John Eusden describes the phenomenon as "a new, near-missionary zeal - very contagious. The students are extremely conscious of shortened distances, and the whole world is on their minds. They have a great sense of being a drop in the bucket, but they have a tremendous desire to use their talents, however meager...
Fifty yards was what the old grads could still do and look professional. Don Barker and Ernie Eusden established themselves as non has-beens in the quick, although they found themselves taking in a lot of air in order to nose out John Watkins...
Only in the Yale dual meet did Eusden fail to finish better than second in either of his specialities. In the Eastern Championships, he qualified in both events, but failed to place...