Word: poem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...racing; the sign of Gemini; a Poem by Witter Bynner; a businesslike forecast by Edward Streeter; a drawing by C.D. Batchelor; some Praise of Circuses by Earl Chapin May; a Portrait in Words by Gertrude Stein; and a sketch by Janet Smalley...
...must be simple, of superior literary technique, and of wholesome human sentiment. No author's name would recommend a selection deficient in any one requirement. For example, Stevenson's children's verses were mostly "adult opinions in grown-up language". "I wouldn't have in my book a poem with 'birdie' in it, even if Alfred Tennyson did write it." I fondly thought that Campbell's "Battle of the Baltic" would appeal to him, for it contained the phrase "Heart of Oak," which was the name of his "Books"; but no! "That was bad business for England...
Like many Etonians, he is impervious to criticism. He is aloof, independent, sometimes satirical, often sarcastic, but more often kindly. His verse shows all these qualities; indeed, his poems form the epitome of his character. He has never been known to write a poem to order; the nearest approach he made to doing so was after the War, when the Armistice seemed to call for an heroic ode. which he penned and called Brittannia Victrix, and which is hardly characteristic of his works...
Constantin Brancusi is a man who leaves his critics shuddering, growling, bearing eyeteeth at each other, mumbling through cold masks of horror. His defenders on the other hand shout their quick praises in a complicated language. Famed Poet Carl Sandburg has written this poem...
...ample white beard and bushy mustachios, for he had conspicuously brought himself to the notice of the Viennese, who are so hazy about their Chief Executive that many are alleged not to know his name. Still more gratifying was the news that Lower Austria (a province) may adopt the poem as its official anthem, not having had a song of its own since the fall of the monarchy...