Word: nathalia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Critic-Poet Louis Untermeyer: "Nathalia can explain practically every line she has ever written; I have heard her uncertain treble clarify passages that have puzzled erudite authors...
...with the passion-weary detachment of a woman who has had her fill of life and its motley follies. Critic-Poet Louis Untermeyer chortled with elation. Poet William Rose Benét wrote a preface. The English Society of Authors and Playwrights (of which Thomas Hardy is President) asked Nathalia Crane to join them...
...innocent ones and murmurs float above the clatter of the table d'hôte: "There's Oontermeyer!" "There's Bennett!" One afternoon, after the coffee, suggested Poet Markham, a joke went round the company; pencils flashed from waistcoat pockets, and the Child Genius, Nathalia Crane, was born upon the back of a menu-card...
...Nathalia sort of sings her poems to herself-they come into being that way. She reads Kipling constantly, and Conan Doyle is her favorite. The only poet she likes is Longfellow, but she doesn't enthuse over him. She likes wild, imaginative tales...
...temerarious pressman had a question. To give positive proof of her talent, would she-if she felt anything coming-let it out while the reporters were there? Certainly, smiled Nathalia. Thereupon she uttered...