Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apparently the red coats enjoyed their work. Being only human, they were often amused by the irrelevant questions asked by the visiting firemen. For a time consternation was thrown into the ranks by the frequent request to see "The Poet's House." It turned out that the inquirers were scarching for the Brattle Street home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, once familiarly addressed by Mark Twain as "Evangeline...
...Snow's style is not distinguished, but it makes no undue demands upon the reader. There is not much material in which this reviewer was passionately interested, but one may thank Mr. Snow for reprinting the Deer Island verses of the Rev. F. W. A. S. Brown, wandering poet of Boston Harber, who flourished (or drooped?) in 1819. One may quote from them without further comment...
Quick were many Harvardmen to insist that whatever Author Tunis' survey might show, it was true only of the Class of 1911, which many ungraciously suggested was a dud. Harvard's Class of 1910, for instance, fathered a celebrated motley including Columnists Walter Lippmann and Heywood Broun, Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot, Communist John Reed, New York's Representative Hamilton ("Ham") Fish...
...physical discomfort and intellectual vitality that characterized the Capital's society. There the 58-year-old Jefferson, scandalizing British Minister Merry by receiving him in comfortable, heelless slippers, created an international sensation when he dispensed with precedents at State functions. The relationship of Mrs. Merry to Irish Poet Tom Moore, the amours of Captain Zebulon Pike, discoverer of Pike's Peak, the marriage of Jerome Bonaparte to Betsy Patterson of Baltimore, the domestic difficulties of the French Minister, who frequently beat his wife-such topics dominated the gossip of a provincial capital that was growing too worldly...
Brilliantly as Sandburg has captured the flavor of unrecorded wisecracks, most readers will find The People, Yes growing diffuse as the poet approaches his climax and speaks in his own idiom instead of that of his hero. He repeats with love Abe Lincoln's salty observations on the poor, sees Lincoln as one of the people elevated to power who never forgot his origins. He repeats with scorn Hamilton's "Your people, sir, is a great beast." Brooding on unemployment, hard times, strikes, revolutions, wars, he sees the people succumbing to one false leader after another, tricked...