Word: poem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...POEM-W. H. Auden-Random House...
Less brutal was the conduct of slangy Able Seaman Jerry Edgerton: "I kept thinking about that poem 'The Boy Stood On The Burning Deck.' Finally my bunk pals shook me out of it and we decided to go overboard. A couple of girls came up and asked?polite but excited?if we'd mind their going along with us. I said. 'Sure, help yourself to the Atlantic and jump in.' When we were in the water I don't know what happened to one of the girls but when the other seemed about ready to give up I said. 'Come...
...succumbed except Vanity Fair which he is still attacking. It is nothing for Minstrel Braley to turn out six verses a week for a newspaper syndicate, four for trade publications, while keeping 25 to 60 in the mail as a matter of routine. On an average, a "poem" is rejected eight times, travels 500 miles. He figures his postage overhead alone has cost...
...years ago Manhattan was a forcing bed for prodigious children, and one night Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr. gave a party for them. A onetime prodigy who had used a typewriter at 3, written a poem and made a public speech at 4, Miss Stoner invited such characters as William James Sidis, who at n set Harvard agog, and Nathalia Crane, who at 9 published poems. The party's chief exhibit was Ellen Elizabeth Benson, the plump young daughter of a Texas newspaper couple. When she was 8, Ellen Elizabeth Benson's mind had been rated as equal to that...
AMERICAN SONG-Paul Engle-Doubleday, Doran ($1.75). Paul Engle was awarded first prize by Poetry: A Magazine of Verse for the best poem about the Century of Progress Exposition at Chicago. Poems for an occasion are many-and mostly bad. But " America Remembers," included as tailpiece to this second volume of Engle verse, is the strongest and most maturely poetic achievement in the book, a swift, glamorous and compact running commentary on 300 years of American legend. Weaving back & forth, up & down over the vistas of local mythology, it strikes a genuinely inspirational note. The first poem...