Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Hillyer has cause to remember the new advisor in American History, for the Harvard poet and Pulitzer Prize winner was subject to a severe attack by the new Conant appointee last fall in the October issue of "The New Republic...
...Hicks diatribe, entitled "A Letter to Robert Hillyer," referred specifically to Hillyer's recent book of poetry, addressed in the same manner to Robert Frost. In a full page of caustic verse Hicks belittled the poet on both personal and professional grounds. Some extracts from "A Letter to Robert Hillyer' are below...
...deeply moved by the letter of Brother Henry Eliot [TIME, March 21] concerning the latest literary effort of Tired Tom the family poet-albeit surprised that he did not write in his native Sanskrit. For that I praise his adaptiveness...
Dietrich out of a job, Miranda is in Hollywood at Paramount, preparing to drape both their mantles over her shapely shoulders. To the late Poet Gabriele D'Annunzio (who had never met her), Miranda was "the most glamorous one in the world. She is to the screen what Duse was to the stage...
...beauties of this work are not generally known. Despite a mediocre libretto by Nahum Tate (poet-laureate of England at the time) Purcell has a real sense of dramatic pace, and his themes admirably express the varying moods of his characters...