Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When her husband died in 1895, Mrs. Eugene Field settled in Chicago with a tidy little fortune, a steady income from royalties accruing from the famed children's poet's works. In 1921. after fire damaged her house, she moved north to Heafford Junction, Wis., where she paid $60,000 for 155 woodsy acres with a barn, five cottages, a boxlike house of cement blocks overlooking Crystal Lake. To augment her income as royalties dwindled, she rented the land to farmers, the cottages to tourists. Pinched by Depression, she had to take out a mortgage, planned...
Well, for Mr. Hicks, John Reed's fight was in the right direction. Was "a first-rate poet spoiled to make a third-rate revolutionary?" Was John Reed simply a little more highly-flavored liberal than the run of his friends, who had just a little more adventurousness and a little more guts, so that he went the whole hog instead of signing up for Creel's Committee for Public Information? Was he sinsere or was he just too romantic to be sensible...
Thomas Stearns Eliot is a St. Louis boy who went to Harvard, and beyond. Not a particularly shining light in an undergraduate world that included such firebrands and footlights as the late John Reed and Walter Lippmann, he polished his post-graduate lamp to such purpose that he became Poet Laureate of the Lost Generation. His famed Waste Land has stood like a lighthouse against which whole flocks of sophisticated blues-writers have dashed themselves in vain emulation. When Poet Eliot expatriated himself to England, there were few disapproving murmurs from his followers. But when he publicly renounced agnosticism, announced...
Some of T. S. Eliot's most famed verses were obviously written before he attained a state of grace, were not likely to inculcate any comfortable doctrine into Anglo-Catholic minds. But after looking through this collection readers could see that Poet Eliot had let himself be guided by his artistic conscience: the book contained many a passage that the Archbishop of Canterbury would not read from the pulpit. Sample: The Hippopotamus, generally taken as a satire on the Church...
Poems of the year appeared in Strange Holiness by Robert Peter Tristram Coffin. Hefty, curly-haired Poet Coffin is 44, a professor of English at Wells College, Aurora, N. Y. He boasts of having versified simultaneously for popular Ladies' Home Journal and the highbrow Nation...