Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Robert Underwood Johnson, 84, poet, onetime (1909-13) editor of Century magazine, onetime (1920-21) U. S. Ambassador to Italy, director of the New York University Hall of Fame; one of the founders of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in Manhattan...
...truism when Edward Gibbon, concluding on the eve of the French Revolution his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, remarked that no such social upsets could possibly occur again in so well-ordered a world. Against this 18th Century background appeared last week two full-dress biographies of Poet Tom Moore. Author Jones's was the more tricked'-out in period furbelows; Author Strong's more sober-minded version was the better bet for serious readers...
Born late enough in this period to give him a running jump into the more stirring times that followed was Tom Moore, a short, bouncing, dandiacal Irish poet, whose life and work expressed the age's contradictions perhaps as well as any man's. Son of a prosperous Dublin greengrocer, he was schooled at Trinity College, where he was a classmate and familiar of the great Robert Emmet, was involved with him in such seditious pranks that the pair escaped arrest and imprisonment only by the narrowest of margins. It was not until Moore had settled in England...
Maurice Sapienza '37, Class Poet of his graduating class and now a Law School student, has been named Contest Editor of both the "Christmas Lyrics of 1937" and the "Crown Anthology of Verse," it was announced last night...
Presenting a golden opportunity to a budding poet whose work is considered of too light a vein for use in English courses, the CRIMSON will soon start a limerick contest...