Word: marya
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Millay, whose poems are completely negligible. They are readable and sufficiently sentimental to be a popular choice; they have a certain dexterity and gloss, often substituted for technical superiority and thought, easily overcoming the defences of mediocre critics, but they are hopelessly trivial. These triumphs in the treble of Marya Zaturenska and the glibness of Robert Hillyer have evidently rung louder in the cars of the Pulitzer Committee in recent years than the works of such really outstanding American poets as Tate, Stevens, Eberhart and Ransom, all of whom are of immeasurably greater stature...
Verse. To Marya Zaturenska, for her collection of poems, Cold Morning...
...Naturally I am most interested in the Poetry award," he continued. "I have long admired the poetry of Marya Zaturensky who won the poetry award for her volume entitled "Cold Morning Sky," and I am pleased to see it get the reception it deserves...