Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oklahoma also furnished Speaker Byrns with Josh Lee. Literally Joshua Bryan Lee, his name like those of other Oklahoma Congressmen is written short on the ballot but his words are long extended, for he was the "national collegiate oratorical champion" in 1916. Something of a poet and artist, he rates today among the most effective speakers in the House. For ten months during the War his oratory was confined to a trench opposite the Hindenburg Line. Fortnight ago when the War Profits Bill was before the House, his oratory burst forth to demand nationalization of munitions plants...
With these troublemakers stands John Steven McGroarty, a newcomer of an-other calibre. He is a 72-year-old newspaper columnist from Tujunga, Calif, (publicized as California's poet laureate) whose capacity for troubling the House lies purely in the fact that he is the legislative general for Dr. Townsend and his pension plan...
...thoughts expressed in the past as the crux for a dramatic sermon on the wastage of war. A rich and sympathetic husband has provided Naomi Jacklin (Katharine Cornell) with the material to build a mental barricade against her personal War tragedy. In 1914 she was in love with a poet. Life at the front so embittered him that Naomi came to believe he hated her. Accordingly, she did away with their unborn, illegitimate child. Later she heard that on his deathbed her lover had babbled a verse which began on a new note of hope. For 20 years Naomi wondered...
...LEWIS is a young English poet whose name is always mentioned nowadays with those of Spender and Auden, and to understand his poetry and in fact the aims of the group with which he is associated, the reader ought to turn to the manifesto, "A Hope for Poetry," published separately in England, but reprinted here together with the longish works, "Transitional Poem," "From Feathers to Iron," and "The Magnetic Mountain." The last is easily the best and it illustrates most nicely the sort of poetry which one may reasonably expect hereafter from Mr. Day Lewis. It is intellectual poetry...
...Eliot is another obvious master, especially in technique, indeed almost exclusively in technique, for there is much in the content of Day Lewis's poetry of which Eliot, standing for his King and Church, is bound to disapprove. For Day Lewis, like Auden and Spender, is a poet who uses "Communion both as a stimulus and as a kind of relief from irritation," and in doing so he may well have yielded, as he suggests while speaking of the Communist movement in contemporary letters, to a passing fashion, since the literary world has its whirligig of fashion, even...