Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sexpert Dr. Marie (Married Love) Stopes, 57, published a book of verse, Love Songs for Young Lovers, which impressed George Bernard Shaw ("You are a poet all right. It can't be helped") and Laureate John Masefield ("I hope you will write more poems like We Burn"). Of herself she said: "Like 'A. E.' and like Housman, I write poetry only when I am in a special state of excitation...
...impossible to travel in most directions without traveling through armies, or in northern France and Belgium through heaped wreckage and broken walls. Revolutions threatened and populations starved. Joyce in Paris was close to starving too. But help came to him from U. S. and English expatriates. American Poet Robert McAlmon lent him money, Bookshop Owner Sylvia Beach began publishing Ulysses. Ezra. Pound, Idaho's great expatriate, introduced him to Harriet Weaver...
After twenty-one years of teaching at Harvard, John Livingston Lowes has given his last lecture, Yesterday at noon, he walked into Sever 11, ascended the rostrum, and gave a short talk on Robert Herrick, the seventeenth century lyricist. Thus with the gay lines of the poet, he wrote "Finis" to his long career as one of the foremost scholars of his time a career that is remarkable in its contribution to learning. Dr. Lowes, apart from having gained invaluable experience in colleges throughout the country, has written many books on English Literature. His "The Road to Xanadu...
Among the Norwegian books shown are some of the great early works of this literature, in manuscript and printed form. One case is devoted to the works of Bjornstjerne Bjornson, modern Norwegian poet, novelist, and dramatist; and another case to the works of Ibsen...
...Manhattan for a visit landed Idaho-born Poet Ezra Loomis Pound, loudest and funniest U. S. expatriate. Still arrogant, shrill, red-bearded, he readily announced: "I came over only because I'm curious. ... I regard the literature of social significance as of no significance. It is pseudo-pink blah. . . . The best practical economic stuff is being written in Italy today. Men write there for audiences of 500 or 600, say what they want and make sense...