Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First produced in 1689 with a libretto by Nahum Tate, poet laureate of England, the work has a preponderance of feminine parts since it was written for the author's pupils at a school for girls. These parts will be taken by members of the Radcliffe Choral Society...
READING THE SPIRIT-Richard Eberhart-Oxford University Press ($2.50). Wet-behind-the-ears poems of unusual intensity, sponsored by English Anthologist Michael Roberts (The Faber Book of Modern Verse). Poet Eberhart is a young Minnesotan who graduated from Dartmouth in 1926, bummed around the world to St. John's College, Cambridge, now teaches English at St. Mark's School. Author of at least one unforgettable poem (The Groundhog), Poet Eberhart is one of the rarest human types known-a genuine ham poet...
POEMS-Rex Warner-Knopf ($2). When of late years the Anglo-Communism of Oxford Poets Auden, Spender, Day Lewis broke the ice of post-War English poetry, fellow Oxonian Rex Warner started skating on one of the smaller cakes. More of a country man than an Anglo-Communist, more of an Anglo-Communist than a poet, his best poems are honest descriptions, his worst, honest cant...
...WORK-Oscar Brynes- Harcourt, Brace ($1.25). A fast, comprehensive notation of a fast, comprehensive day's work-Brooklyn's 1934 $500,000 armored-car robbery. Poet Brynes's first published book reveals him as an able handler of 1) melodramatic narrative, 2) a sawed-off vernacular with a hot business-end, cool trigger...
...same time overcomes his individuality, which limits and restricts man, in three ways. The moralist says that the man who works for fame and wealth lives only for time, but he who works for ideals of goodness and beauty lives for eternity. The heart, with the poet its soldier, claims that Love is the most divine quality...