Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...portrait busts, made under fire in Spain, of the leaders of the People's Army. Last week when chunky Sculptor Davidson stepped ashore in Manhattan, glowering amiably, he brought with him from Paris a seven-foot, two-ton bronze statue of Walt Whitman, a People's Poet if there ever was one, for the New York World's Fair...
Turnabout. Oliver St. John Gogarty is an Irish physician, Senator, wit, poet and the original of Buck Mulligan in Joyce's Ulysses. His autobiographical volumes, As I Was Going Down Sackville Street and Tumbling in the Hay, tell of his indiscreet youth, his love of laughter and low company, his delight in stories of his own and other people's misbehavior. One such got him into a libel suit which cost him ?900. But when Patrick Kavanagh, young Irish poet, published The Green Fool (TIME, Feb. 27), fun-loving Dr. Gogarty could not see the joke...
Under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund Louis MacNeice, well known English poet, gave a reading of his poems yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Emerson D. MacNeice holds a position on the University of London faculty...
Louis MacNeice, noted young English poet, will give a reading under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Emerson D. A. contemporary of several of the younger English writers including W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, MacNeice graduated from Oxford and is now teaching at Bedford College in the University of London...
...story of the wise and lovely Candida, the shy and passionate young poet and the outwardly magnificent minister is almost too well-known to bear retelling. Candida is forced to choose between her husband, a complacent and fabulously successful preacher, and David Marchbanks, a sensitive and pathetic boy of eighteen who "understands" her, And paradoxically it is the Reverend James Mavor Morell who wins out, because he is weaker in hid magnificent external strength than Marchbanks, who clings to his loneliness and misery as a retreat form a world where you have to decide how much to tip the cabby...