Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Novelist Fannie Hurst was disgusted to find that the major ambition of all the finalists was marriage, not a career. She snapped: "I'm sick of the lot of you. ... If this is the younger generation-ugh!" The London Times published a quatrain written by England's Poet Laureate John Masefield to commemorate Prime Minister Chamberlain's visit to Reichsführer Hitler: As Priam to Achilles for his son, So you, into the night, divinely led, To ask that young men's bodies, not yet dead, Be given from the battle not begun...
Among these agile regionalists none is subtler than Poet Allen Tate, who has written biographies (Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis), contributed to regional anthologies,, made himself their best-known spokesman. The Fathers, his first novel, exhibits Border-State mentality at its most devious. The story, laid in Virginia and Maryland during the first days of the Civil War, is recalled 50 years later by an old bachelor doctor named Lacy Buchan. The protagonist, however, is the narrator's brother-in-law, a handsome, money-making Marylander named George Posey, whom the narrator worshiped but only vaguely understood. The elder Buchans...
Archibald MacLeish, poet and magazine writer, who won the Pulitzer poetry prize in 1932, will be Curator of the newly founded Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism at the Library. He will supervise the formation of a library of general literature on modern journalism, and also a microfilm collection of major contemporary newspapers in many countries...
MAINE BALLADS-Robert P. Tristram Coffin-Macmillan ($2). Poet Coffin thinks that "the materials for ballads are still being made up every day out of the whole cloth of human nature." This good-tempered, able-bodied collection of folksy poems, is made up out of some State-of-Maine-colored fragments from human nature's rural...
Biggest sourdough storyteller was the Reunion's retiring president, Michael Ambrose Mahoney of Ottawa, Ont., who flew to Portland in a checkered jacket. Big Mike Mahoney, who is supposed to have retired with $250,000 in his poke, spends most of his time at luncheons and banquets reciting Poet Robert W. Service's doleful ballads Dangerous Dan McGrew and The Cremation of Sam McGee. According to Mr. Mahoney, he was present, along with Poet Service, when a crazed engineer named Madden burst into the Dominion saloon at Dawson and shot Gambler McGrew for running away with his wife...