Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this big man, one of our truly big Americans, is pro-British. Why? All the big Butlers, the poet W. Butler Yeats, General Butler in the World War I, Justice Butler of our Supreme Court, to name a few, were and are Irish...
Britain's Poet Laureate John Masefield, whose job it is to muse on State occasions for a butt of wine or ?75 a year (he takes the cash), officially recognized a state of war. Poet Masefield, who once said: "The office of Poet Laureate is responsible for much of the world's worst literature," published a poem entitled Some Verses to Some Germans. Excerpts...
...poet, we have heard...
...Poems. Into the book Coffin has put some 250 lyrics and ballads, previously published in eight books and in 46 low, high-and medium-browed magazines; and he gives them a dramatic send-off with a 13-page preface in which he modestly blesses himself for being a good poet, his audience for being good listeners, poetry for being beneficent magic, and the world for being a wonderful world...
Thomas Wolfe always needed editing, but not this kind. With the best will in the world and the notion that Wolfe was "first of all, a poet" the publishers have anthologized 71 pieces of descriptive, rhapsodic and wistful prose from his novels and shorter works. The effect: that of sticking in a vase 71 feathers that belonged on an Indian war bonnet with wind...