Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. William Butler Yeats, 73, great Irish poet; of heart disease; in Roquebrune, France. A symbolist poet known to few in his youth, a leader of the Irish literary renaissance and a founder of the Abbey Theatre in his early maturity, an Irish nationalist in his middle years, Yeats also became a Nobel prizewinner (1923), a Free State Senator, and was widely accepted, in his old age, as a world figure whose poetry and prose could be measured with the greatest produced in his time. His art meanwhile changed from the youthful rhythms of The Lake Isle of Innisfree, which...
Last fall, after a political argument in Greenup, Ky., Hillbilly Poet Jesse Hilton Stuart was blackjacked while his back was turned by Constable Amos Allen. Last week a jury found Constable Allen guilty of assault and battery; the judge fined...
...world already knows too well, the symbol of New York City's forthcoming World's Fair is a heroic abstraction from solid geometry: a Trylon & Perisphere (a 700-ft. triangular spire and 200-ft. globe). Between now and March 15th, a lot of U. S. poets will try to translate that symbol into verse. Their incentive: a $1,000 first prize (and five additional prizes of $100 each) offered by the Academy of American Poets for the Fair's Official Poem. Judges: William Rose Benet, Louis Untermeyer, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. For U. S. poets, the first prize...
...contestants will name their poems (three allowed per poet) The World of Tomorrow, after the Fair's optimistic theme. Since poets today are not noted for their optimistic outlook, the Fair's prize competition raises one of the most interesting poetic questions of the year...
Helen Jepson, Wilfred Pelletier (Sun. 9 p. m. CBS), Metropolitan Opera soprano and conductor, in an hour of music dedicated to Ford cars and the memory of Poet Robert Burns...