Word: poe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, Science was of little avail last week to 40,000 terror-stricken inhabitants of Western Oregon where forest fires raging in the parched timberland were whipped down to the coast by high winds. Fire completely destroyed Bandon (pop. 1,500), burned parts of De Poe Bay and Myrtle Point, menaced a half-dozen other small communities and 400,000 acres of timber, including some of the famed redwoods of Northern California. In Bandon, where practically all buildings were razed, a dozen bodies were recovered. One man was killed clearing wreckage, some 30 others were missing...
...fallacies which man hugs to his bosom, the one characterized by Ruskin as "the pathetic fallacy" is the most common to romantic poets. As generally applied, "the pathetic fallacy" imputes to Nature the appropriate emotional states of the despairing, joyful or ironic poet. Poe's croaking ravens and ghastly rushing rivers were clear examples; T. S. Eliot used the same stage effects in more modern terms. Last week a new poet struck his lyre, and to ears that could remember echoes, the minor strains were far older than Ruskin. Not so much for his gently conventional verse...
...political Louis Poda's The Face That Haunts America turns out to be a portrait of Edgar Allan Poe...
...salary. A benefit performance was staged at the Théâtre des Arts for Gauguin and the equally impoverished Paul Verlaine. Artist Gauguin decorated the théâtre with his pictures; Verlaine, Maurice Maeterlinck and Charles Morice wrote special plays; Stéphane Mallarmé recited Poe's Raven in French. By the time the scenery was paid for there was just enough money left to buy Poet Verlaine 30 drinks of absinthe. Painter Gauguin sold his pictures at auction, went to Tahiti anyway...
...most versatile American scholars, he has written poetry, plays, brochures, a bibliography of Byron's works, a biography of Moses Colt Tyler, and a study of American and French Culture (1750-1848). He has also translated Heine's "The North Sen" and edited the Poems of Edgar Allen Poe and Plays of the Restoration and the 18th Century. At present he holds a Guggenheim Fellowship to do research work for a biography of Tom Moore...