Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aged 38 and the vivacious mother of four, Benedetta confided to friends that she was moved to pen her ten commandments by emotion at the arrival on the Ethiopian front last week of her 59-year-old vivacious husband, "The Founder of Futurism," Millionaire-Poet Filippo Tomaso Marinetti (TIME...
Next spring, busts of Winners Penn, Newcomb & Cleveland will be placed in the care of the Hall of Fame's 82-year-old director, Robert Underwood Johnson, poet and onetime (1920-21) Ambassador to Italy, whose white whiskers compare in bushiness with those of such inmates as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Samuel F. B. Morse and new Simon Newcomb...
...response was warm and immediate, showing the general desire to do honor to the poet's memory. Subscriptions, in most cases entirely unsolicited, were received from all parts of the country, often accompanied by notes expressive of the writers' affection for "E. A. R.", and admiration for his work...
FRANKNESS is an especial merit of Professor Matthiessen's book. Intimately acquainted with the man and his work, Professor Matthiessen makes no attempts to conceal the fact that he is attorney for the defence, and he rests his case boldly on the actual performance of Eliot as poet and as critic. He does not claim, like most advocates, to be in sole possession of the whole truth, so his tone is never arrogant or impatient; the only handicap with which his advocacy and enthusiasm have encumbered him is the tendency to deduce universal 'laws' of poetry from the practice...
...persuasion as evidences of Eliot's state of mind under capitalism. Eliot's figures are characters of the contemporary scene, caught off their guard, as it were, and snapped in some characteristic stance. In that sense only is it proper for Marxist critics to refer to Eliot as the poet singing the dirge of the capitalist epoch...