Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large number of disconcerted readers who are mystified by some of the modern excursions into versification, Robert Hillyer's "First Principles of Verse" will allow them to regain their equilibrium by its clear presentation of the fundamental elements of poetry. It is a practical, elementary handbook for the poet or critic, but its significance lies in the ultra-conservative attitude of this well-known modern poet, who has been completely uninfluenced by the meanderings of some of his contemporaries...
...bare wooden stage of Sanders Theatre, flanked by plaster replicas of modern statesmen draped in 19th century pseudo-classical togas, was transformed into an imitation of the Athenian theatre last night as the Poet's Theatre staged the "Alcestis" of Euripides. The performance was the world premiere of a new version of the classic by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald and it is too bad that last night it was not possible to get an accurate impression of the quality of their work. This was so mainly because the choruses were sung by female voices, the clarity...
...were unable to corral the services of E. Ingalls, U. Lupien, and others on which their hearts were set, but they did succeed in getting pointers on the national pastime by smiling Fred Mitchell himself. It made no difference, though, and the losers trudged home wiser men, as the poet says...
Alcestis and Admetus will live again tonight in Sagders Theatre, and Alcestis will die, as the Poet's Theatre presents a new English version of Euripides' tragedy in the first of three performances...
...curious reason: They were like the heroes of some folk tale that had never quite got written. Nobody would compare the stories of Zane Grey to Beowulf, but before Beowulf there were probably generations of crude popular storytellers, handing on the same legends, gradually refining them, until eventually a poet appeared who could organize them into a unified work. Zane Grey's novels, Professor Whipple said, are such primitive legends of the old West-repetitious as folk tales, filled with bloody action and two-dimensional characters, but genuine stories nevertheless...