Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remarkable past he has played around with such varied characters as Jack London and Mexico's Rebel Pancho Villa. He had long since retired with a comfortable fortune and stomach ulcers when, in 1937, his young son David and his young nephew Jimmy Benét (son of Poet William Rose Benét) went to fight in Spain. Word that David had been wounded took Frederick Thompson posthaste to Madrid, where he found David recovering and insistent upon more fighting. Father Frederick wanted to fight, too, but his age (55) and his ulcers made it impracticable...
Still going strong, the latest issue of "Mother" Advocate pays tribute to her 1910 secretary by printing a whole number in his honor. The issue was interesting principally as it showed in what ways the boy Tom Eliot was father to T. S. Eliot, the poet...
...Harvard for a year as Charles Eliot Norton Professor, U. S. critics seethed to see him wince at Americanisms, to hear him admit he had little knowledge of U. S. poetry or interest in it. He gave reticent teas, at which young Harvard intellectuals silently watched the silent poet eat cake. Eliot seemed to enjoy flaunting his English ways: "I tend," said he, "to fall asleep in club armchairs, but I believe my brain works as well as ever, whatever that is, after I have...
Because practically the only energy in his words comes from anger, Kenneth Fearing is a poeticule-a poet, because his words are so brimful of anger they leave no room for hate...
...these eleven writers, nine seem to help define the word poet, two-one living and one dead-make the word poet make sense...