Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told only half the story of Ballad for Americans which Paul Robeson sang so magnificently. The ballad, evidently through some oversight, was credited to me as creator. Actually, while I wrote the music, the entire text including the beautiful selections you reprinted, was the work of the young poet, John Latouche...
...Frost, although this is his first year on the Faculty at Harvard has previously served at Amherst, Michigan, and Yale Universities, and at New Hampshire State Normal, and his former connections with Harvard have been as a student, 1897 to 1899; as Phi Beta Kappa Poet, 1916; and as the recipient of the honorary degree of Litt...
...oaks were dedicated in New Brunswick, N. J. at the hitherto treeless home of the late Soldier-Poet Joyce Kilmer (Trees...
...Possum" is a nickname given to Anglophile T. S. Eliot† by Anglophobe Ezra Pound. Source of the nickname was an old compact by which Poet Pound undertook to attack British literary lethargy from afar (i.e., Rapallo, Italy), while Poet Eliot played possum in the enemy camp. Lying low in a high place, Eliot never included in his published works various light verses about cats which his friends and a few children received from time to time, typewritten and unsigned. The present collection marks, among other things, Eliot's first public acknowledgment of possumhood...
Other speakers will include Michael Karpovich, associate professor of History, Francis J. Whitfield, Slavic expert, and Antoni Gronovicz, Polish poet...