Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insists on having her own way. She is the daughter (real name, Suzanne) of Paul Charpentier, editor of the Journal dee Voyage. French director Abel Gance first spotted her and called her Annabella because, in common with most literate Frenchmen, he admires "Annabel Lee," Edgar Allen Poe's poem to his dead wife. René Clair brought her fame in Le Million. Night after the first Paris showing, she signed a contract with Osso Films. Last year Clair called her back for July 14. He gets along much better with amiable, unambitious Pola Illery, the Rumanian who plays...
They asked one lad for a poem, and he replied enthusiastically that he was making a long satiric poem for them, after the manner of Dryden. The editors waited a long time for further news of the great work; were told that the poem was becoming difficult, and only half completed. The poet had struck some snags that never bothered Dryden, but was told to keep on and encouraged. After a few days strenuous wrestling with his verses the student telephoned the Critic office. He joyously told them that all his difficulties were over; he had solved the problem...
...title poem, like many a Jeffers narrative, starts off in realistic-novel style, plods up into high but hellish places where the wind blows too strong for realism. On a drunken picnic at the seashore Lance caught his brother Michael making love to his wife Fayne: in an instant he had killed Michael. Next instant he regretted it: and if quick-witted Fayne had not made it seem an accident, the murder had been out. To keep the truth from killing his mother, and to save Lance. Fayne persuaded him not to confess what he had done. But his atonement...
...criticism. This has been sufficient to deter many of the faculty; Sherwood Anderson, most apt among her pupils, stylizes, and Ernest Hemingway, imitates, her. In "Axel's Castle," Mr. Edmund Wilson makes some attempt to isolate her peculiar position in the Symbolist movement; he quotes, he explains a poem. But her personal development glimmers through his words with an agonizing inconstancy that is almost caprice. The spirit of Gertrude Stein has been caught most surely in the plastic arts with which she has so deep an affinity; she comes to us most directly through the portrait of Picasso...
Editor Renaud is small, grey, round-faced, with horn-rimmed spectacles. On the old World he made a good record as a newshawk. He is aloof, diffident, rarely mixes with his staff except to show them a watercolor he has painted, a poem or play he has dashed...