Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Harriet Monroe, 75, Chicago poet, founder & editor of the magazine Poetry, which first published the poems of Hilda Doolittle ("H. D."), Joyce Kilmer's Trees, Vachel Lindsay's General William Booth Enters Into Heaven; of cerebral hemorrhage; at Arequipa, Peru...
HERE, in lithograph and concise chronicle, is the story of John Reed, playboy, poet, and hero of present-day U. S. radicals. It is a thrilling and intensely interesting story...
...lives they cost rather than the strategy that determined them. But the War pictured in Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Sherston's Progress is War as it appeared to a trained and disciplined British officer, winner of the Military Cross, a poet whose mind was filled with thousands of unpoetic, practical problems: getting shoes for his men, remembering the amount of water necessary for a company in a front line trench, memorizing pages of official instruction on trench warfare between bombardments. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer told how Sassoon (called Sherston in the narrative...
Although his language and his rhythms are modern, the world of this poet has much in common with that Gothic land of bleak plains, deserted cities, brooding cliffs and endless solitudes that characterized the poetic age of Byron...
...Assassins reveals a wide range of technical accomplishment. In such poems as The Dolls or Alexandria the poet's lines and images are dry, economical, with more than a suggestion of the exactness and finality of some of the verses of T. S. Eliot. But in Going Southward, from which the lines above are quoted, the images are tropical and luxurious, the racing, unbroken, drumlike beat of the poem effectively suggesting the panic and horror of the world...