Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many writers of today are going bitter on us," continued the poet. "I am shocked at the amount of really vitriolic, filthy sarcasm which is published today: I'm glad I have enough oil in my feathers to disregard it! Much of it, I feel, comes from the sense of personal frustration and tragedy which accompanies the feeling that one has 'sold out' to the forces of materialism which keep prodding an author to 'produce.' Many writers yield to the publishers' request for a second book to meet the demand caused by the popularity of a successful first attempt...
...double entendre: "There is nothing like this poem in our literature", and that sentence in its rashness is indicative of the critical level of all the other statements made by the others, none of whom was or is a critic of any consequence. As the chief American poet, of course Mr. Jeffers should know better than to bless "The Hermaphrodite", which has a superficial smoothness that some people, like Mr. Benjamin De Casseres, the author of the Preface, will mistake for "passion, seusuousness, and and spontaneity." But still waters do not always run deep--in poetry, and facility...
...Every piece of creative writing is a fresh access of longing for the satisfaction of a great desire" asserted the poet, in discussing the quality of sincerity of emotion in poetry. To illustrate the kind of imaginative seizure that every true poet undergoes when he writes a poem, Mr. Frost cited an incident in his own boyhood in California...
...production of Victoria Regina (TIME, Dec. 30), Playwright Laurence Housman, brother of famed Poet A. E. Housman, sailed from England, where his play was banned, to Manhattan. "I am," complained he, "the most censored of British playwrights. Bernard Shaw has had only four plays censored. I have had 32." The original version of Victoria Regina was a series of 32 one-act plays. Because three of Victoria's children, the Duke of Connaught, Princess Beatrice and the Princess Louise, were living, the Lord Chamberlain banned them all. Chuckled Playwright Housman last week: "We gave a private performance...
VIGILS - Siegfried Sassoon - Viking ($1.50). Of the British poets whom the War sent over the top, Siegfried Sassoon is one of the few survivors. As an officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers he served with such absent-minded gallantry that he was awarded the Military Cross, was recommended for the D. S. O. Then in 1917, because he considered that the War had degenerated into a senseless slaughter, he published a public protest, "in wilful defiance of military authority." Because he was a war-hero he was not court-martialed but hushed away into a mental hospital. The front line...