Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Garland of Bays Gwyn Jones has written a realistic historical novel about one of the most romantic Elizabethans-Robert Greene- painting the most credible picture in fiction of that incredible era, and drawing one of the most convincing portraits of a poet that contemporary novels have to offer...
Five years ago in Majorca Robert Graves, 43-year-old poet, scholar, teacher and soldier, who gained U. S. fame with his account of his War years, Goodbye to All That, wrote his first Roman novel as a scholarly potboiler. Called /, Claudius and giving a sympathetic account of the emperor whom Gibbon considered only a shade better than Nero, it became a bestseller. In Claudius the God, which followed, Graves pictured Claudius as the one Roman who believed that his wife, Messalina, was an honest woman, preserved the flavor of an old chronicle in a lively, modern story...
...vividly illustrated by the statement that she had as many struggling brats as Walt Whitman had unruly ideas. The analogy becomes quite compelling after one has read this discussion of the politico-social ideas of Walt Whitman, in which Mr. Arvin makes it quite clear that the poet's mind was filled by the most numerous and most contradictory feelings on almost every conceivable subject. Mr. Arvin, who graduated from Harvard in 1921, although he does display an admirable understanding of Whitman's social ideology, makes a confused subject even more bewildering by applying the test-writing technique...
This vital and fundamental struggle between the traditional conservatism and the, to Whitman, mystical desire for social reform in the mind of the editor-poet is sharply, forcefully described by Mr. Arvin, who makes of him a dual personality. One part of Whitman is the government clerk, the traditionalist and the conventionalist; the other is the poet who instinctively fears for the future of democracy in an age of money-chasing, corrupt politicians, of oppressed industrial workers. On practically every social and political question, Whitman tends to diverge within himself. He writes paeans on the equality of all human beings...
...dark, personable young man with an earnest, attentive manner, a stubborn jaw and much practical business sense. He grew up on Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Laughlin says that he never read a book until he was 16. Then, at Choate, he studied under the erudite poet and translator Dudley Fitts, read Pound and Eliot before he read Wordsworth, began to write with such success that he won an Atlantic Monthly prize...