Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After making this protest Sassoon continued in the ranks. What either of these poets have to say should be of moment to all intellectually honest people of whatever nationality. Sassoon is the man to whom Wilfred Owen addressed his poem, The Next...
...comes on a mushroom which turns out to be a small atlas globe with a tall, thin, umbrella-bearing caterpillar on it. Adolf has an uncomfortable suspicion. He becomes excited, and begins to shout about negotiations with "Those dirty Jewish Eskimos." To quiet him, the caterpillar suggests a poem...
...creative spirit dwells celibate and solitary. All history yields hardly a famous poem representing a marriage of two minds, and only a few famous works of fiction-the novels of Erckmann-Chatrian, the fairy stories of the brothers Grimm. But in the theatre, which is always the product of many hands, collaboration has long and royally flourished, producing such well-known partnerships as the Elizabethan Beaumont & Fletcher, the Victorian Gilbert & Sullivan, the contemporary Hecht & MacArthur...
...common as colonels in Kentucky. A famed photographer and storyteller, he also plays chess extremely well, for a man without a beard. Outwardly he is as hard-boiled as a Hemingway hero, underneath as sentimental. Symbol of his wry self-depreciation of arts at which he excels is his poem, The Hippocratic Oath of a Photographer...
...Champion. Edna St. Vincent Millay was born a native-daughter of Maine, but she early began to crow like a child of the universe. At 19 she had already written Renascence, a long poem on cosmic possibilities that put contemporary poetry-scouts in a dither of great expectations. When Millay settled down in Greenwich Village, after graduating from Vassar in 1917, she was widely accepted by literary professionals as the most fascinating prodigy in America...