Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a forthright enthusiasm, sometimes tempered by irony, as in the curtain line, after she has convinced her husband that she is not living with another man (which she is) and the husband has mouthed a few platitudes about Faith. Says Babe Gordon: "I used to know a fine poem about Faith. It begins?Oh, Hell! I've forgotten...
...Sackville-West lives with her husband and two sons at "Seven-oaks," near Knole Castle, but she is a lady of other worlds as well, likes traveling with her husband in Ecuador, Persia, any out-of-the-way place. She has also written: Twelve Days, The Land (Hawthornden Prize Poem). Seducers in Ecuador, King's Daughter, The Edwarditins, Knole and the Sackvillcs...
...Walter Scott's poem "Marmion" (1808), valiant English battler against the Scots on Flodden Field...
...Kappa key as genuine--other votes would indicate that he has changed little. We refer to his attitude, of all things, toward poetry. In 1921 his favorite poets were Kipling, Tennyson and Browning; in 1931 they are Browning, Kipling and Tennyson. Ten years ago he voted "If" his favorite poem, followed by Gray's "Elegy"; today he does the same. This may have been all right in 1921, but it is pretty bad for a sophisticated night-clubber whose favorite amusement is women...
...dreary seventh of March, Daniel Webster stood up before the Senate of the United States and delivered what chauvinistic New Englanders are still pleased to remember as a most unfortunate speech. Many and great were the execrations heaped upon his head. One man particularly was outraged. He wrote a poem called Ichabod which today third graders recite in a fumbling monotone on Memorial Day. He also broke forth in trenchant prose with the words, "The God that made New Hampshire taunted that lofty state with little men." Old Boston squatted on its haunches and shook the heavens with ill-concealed...