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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert S. Hillyer '17, professor of English, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry last year, has written a poem for the occasion which will be read by James B. Munn '12, professor of English, and chairman of the Department of English...
...Cambridge Poetry Forum holds meetings every two weeks. Previous speakers this year have been David McCord. Walter Brown, and Merrill Moore. On November 27 Florence Couverse, author of the poem "Efficiency Expert," will address the Forum at Phillips Brooks House...
Even as late as the 19th Century, serious poets believed in writing long epic poems. With some notable exceptions, modern poets generally have given themselves to voicing their own insulted and injured state. Thomas Stearns Eliot's epic of introspection, The Waste Land, has for years been considered the representative poem of the modern age. The Grand National for winged steeds has not been run for some time, but there are signs that poets may be tuning up their mounts for more than the usual private canter. Critics who hardly raised their eyes at Stephen Vincent Benét's John...
Modern poetry, like experimental science, is always precocious to its day. Even William Wordsworth was once a misunderstood modern, a reprehensible revolutionary. Edwin Arlington Robinson, who last week published his eighth quiet narrative poem, was never considered a blasphemer of the literary gods, but once he was more modern than he is today. Now distinctly a member of the old guard, thrice crowned with the perishable bays of the Pulitzer Prize (1922, 1925, 1927). Robinson is by long odds the most respected living U. S. poet. In his 65th year this New England Browning still turns out a lengthy blank...
...only readers who share the poet's indignation will sympathize with the deliberate lunatic ugliness of the poem on Van der Lubbe, the Dutch idiot executed by the Nazis for the Reichstag fire...