Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 62, famed British poet, critic, novelist, militant Roman Catholic controversialist; of heart disease; at "Top Meadow" at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Proud of his romantic poetry (The Wild Knight, The Ballad of the White Horse), he was best known for the books in which he defended his conversion to Catholicism (Heretics, Orthodoxy), his novels (The Man Who Was Thursday), his biography of Charles Dickens, his "Father Brown" detective fiction, his sparkling editorship of G. K.'s Weekly. So close was he to his good friend Hilaire Belloc that their violently medieval, anticapitalist, anti-materialist philosophy earned...
Died. Julia Field, 80, relict of Poet Eugene Field; of heart attack; in her Heafford Junction, Wis. home which two weeks ago was threatened by mortgage foreclosure, saved when Field's college fraternity raised $3,000 (TIME, June...
...fallacies which man hugs to his bosom, the one characterized by Ruskin as "the pathetic fallacy" is the most common to romantic poets. As generally applied, "the pathetic fallacy" imputes to Nature the appropriate emotional states of the despairing, joyful or ironic poet. Poe's croaking ravens and ghastly rushing rivers were clear examples; T. S. Eliot used the same stage effects in more modern terms. Last week a new poet struck his lyre, and to ears that could remember echoes, the minor strains were far older than Ruskin. Not so much for his gently conventional verse...
...poems, well-titled Landscape with Figures, are talented, precocious watercolors. Poet Wiggam writes smoothly, very occasionally ventures such an arresting image...
...Aldo Palazzeschi - Vanni ($2.50). Virtually unreadable fantasy, in dialog form, dealing with the adventures of a "man of smoke" in a nameless kingdom. Prescribed by the publisher as good for what ails "the tired businessman; the psychiatrist, psychologist or Freudian; the political radical or conservative; the artist, philosopher or poet; the scholar, teacher or student," Perela should put them all to sleep in short order...