Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hard-working John Masefield, Poet Laureate of England, is famed for such narrative poems as The Everlasting Mercy and Reynard the Fox, has written 42 books of poetry, plays and fiction, has never achieved a first-rate novel. His latest attempt is neither satire, soufflé nor good red socialist herring, but a baffled British book...
Writing rather than acting is the line which they both intend to follow both having belonged to the Advocate here. Brown won the Young Poet's Prize given by Poetry Magazine in 1935, and last year received the Garrison poetry prize here. A play in verse by him was considered by the Dramatic Club for its Fall production. Amussen wrote sonnets which were published in the Advocate...
...Goethe, studying with Olympian detachment Heine's twisted mixture of harshness and tenderness, irony and romantic feeling, concluded that "Heine has every gift- except love." Psychoanalyst Freud more justly attributes Heine's acerbities to a defense mechanism, functioning with doubled power because he was not only a poet, but a Jew. Author Untermeyer, Jew and poet also, and a lifelong admirer of Heine's works, adopts in general the Freudian view, fills it out with consistent sympathy and understanding. If he errs in ascribing a more-than-probable importance to a bit of blighted calf love, skims...
HEINRICH HEINE: PARADOX AND POET -Louis Untermeyer -Harcourt, Brace (Two vols...
...Poet Heine, lover of paradox, led a life full of contradiction. Born in Düsseldorf, 1797 he grew up in a period when libertarianism alternated with the fiercest repression. There was revolution in France, in Germany there were pogroms. Since Heine was a Jew and passionately self-conscious about it, the uncertainty of the atmosphere led to unpredictable twists in his character, making him by turns suspicious and open-spirited, free-hearted and crabbedly vindictive. Artistically the most German of Germans, he spent the major part of his creative life in exile. A gallant, he fell finally in love...