Word: poem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here, tucked away in a corner, is a poem by a man now famous throughout the English-speaking world ? bought as a space-filler then. Here is the one fine short story published by another?now his novels sell by the hundred thousand, but if he is remembered beyond a decade it will be for that short story. A ponderous article shivers at the radicalism of certain daring young artists ? now safely tucked away by the new sophisticates on the dusty shelf of reactionary classicism. Another proves a European War impossible with the most convincing sort of statistics...
Edna Millay was graduated from Vassar. Stories of her undergraduate days are not free from anecdotes of temperament displayed. She was notably successful, then, however, with her verses, and her prize-winning poem, Renascence, was heralded by the critics as an extraordinary performance for one so young. From college she migrated to Greenwich Village. The contrast between Washington Square and her home town of Rockland, Me., was great; but it did not disconcert her. She soon became a legend. Her poetry was widely read, her charms widely heralded. She was a poet of renown and even more brilliant...
William J. Fielding is editor. He is also author of several books, among them The Caveman within Us, Health and Self Mastery. To the first issue of Know Thyself he contributed a poem, Love, which begins...
Marshall Ayers Best '23, of Evanston, III., is the winner of the Lloyd McKim Garrison prize for the best poem by an undergraduate on a subject chosen by a committee of the English department. The subject for this year was "The Striker". Best is class poet of the Senior class and editorial chairman of the CRIMSON, and was recently president of the Advocate...
Striving for calm, deliberate portraiture, the skill of Mr. Robinson has drown in "Roman Bartholow" a narrative prose-poem, versified in sober lines of meditative characterization. Sophistication echoes through its pages, weary effete, and unenlivening: and yet the characters and plot are such as fit most aptly to his purposes: a modern novel spared. Philosophies and passions are expounded in dialogue that wisely never tries to sound like human talk. He has discovered a way of simplifying subleties that makes them stark and stubbornly incisive; and even his intensest episodes embody wan denial of emotion...