Word: padraic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Padraic Colum, poet, critic and dramatist Litt.D...
...comparative literature at Columbia University, whose seasoned literary criticism was always lucid and shrewd, often eloquent and powerful; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A student member of the Dublin circle of writers and poets who led the "Irish literary renaissance" before World War I, she married (in 1912) Padraic Colum, poet-dramatist founder of the Irish Review, settled with him in the U.S. Her last work-in-progress (with her husband): Our Friend James Joyce...
Though requested to emphasize the later poems of Yeats, she felt there were many wonderful things in the early poems; so she devoted the first portion to a chronological sampling from Song of the Happy Shepherd through the "Crazy Jane" poems. Later came selections from James Stephens, Padraic Colum, Brian Merriman, Padraic Pearse, the prolific Anonymous, and others. With the able assistance of Colgate Salsbury '57 (on temporary loan from Elsinore), she also included the love scene from Yeats' early Faustian drama, The Countess Cathleen...
Miss McKenna will read a scene from W.B. Yeats' play "The Countess Kathleen." She will also present shorter poems of Yeats, Padraic Colum, and James Stephens, as well as some anonymous Irish ballads. The program is sponsored by the Poets' Theatre...
...fellow poets noted the fact or felt the loss when Ridgely Torrence died at 76 on Christmas Day, 1950. All the poems he ever published would fit in one small book. But he was admired as a poet, and loved as a friend, by Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Padraic Colum, William Vaughn Moody. A tall, thin, diffident man with a gaunt face and staring eyes, Ridgely Torrence wrote his rare verse with passion and unceasing care; his poems, polished by humble sincerity as well as art, are understandable by common readers. An Ohio-born Greenwich Villager, Torrence loved life...