Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were ignored. Naturalists deplored upsetting Nature's balance by making fresh the brackish waters of the Cooper basin, teeming with life from shellfish to wild geese. For so protesting, Archibald Rutledge was censured by the State Senate, but the lower house saved him his honorary title of State Poet Laureate...
Songs of Old California (four-record Decca album). Companion to Decca's New York song album, this one evokes California's past almost as well. Beginning with songs of the vaqueros, cowboys, and miners, the collection winds up with famed California Poet George Sterling's comic tribute to the State's molluscular mascot, Abalone...
...noted contemporary poet as well as a journalist, MacLeish graduated from Yale in 1915, and from the Harvard Law School in 1919 after two years as an army captain during the World War. He came to Harvard last fall to coordinate the work of the Nieman Fellows in journalism...
...Beta Kappa Poet will be John Crowe Ransom, Professor of Poetry at Kenyon College, Ohio and author of several books of verse...
...best letters were written to his family on his lecture tours. They considerably spoil the conventional picture of New England's Transcendentalist-in-chief as shy, frail and retiring. Because Emerson was surrounded by people like volcanic bluestocking Margaret Fuller, semi-insane Greek Scholar Jones Very, zany Poet Ellery Channing and "this Gautama" Bronson Alcott, myth has made him one of them. His letters show he never wholly...