Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Daniel Sargeant to Be Poet on June 25; Williston to Preside at Sanders Theatre Ceremony...
...University of Chicago last October went SECommissioner William Orville ("Bill") Douglas to deliver one of an annual series of lectures honoring Poet William Vaughn Moody. Unlike other Moody lecturers, such as Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead and Poet Archibald MacLeish, Bill Douglas talked not of the arts & sciences but of the "art of predatory or high finance." Mr. Douglas spoke from two years' experience studying so-called protective and reorganization committees-"a vantage point from which the whole problem [of capital exploitation and dissipation] can be viewed advantageously." Last week the fourth and fifth reports on this subject prepared...
...appointment of Mr. Robert S. Hillyer to be Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard University is a fitting tribute to a young man who has won distinction as a poet and teacher. At the same time it places upon him the heavy responsibility of following in the footsteps of John Quincy Adams--the first to hold this post --and, in more recent times, of Adams Sherman Hill, Le Baron Russell Briggs and Charles Townsend Copeland...
HART CRANE: THE LIFE OF AN AMERICAN POET—Philip Horton—Norton...
...modern readers could recall even the name of any 18th Century U. S. poet. Of the 19th Century, only three names are still respectfully remembered: Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson. Of the U. S. poets which the first third of the 20th Century has brought to birth, modern readers could name a dozen who are fairly well-known: T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robinson Jeffers, Edgar Lee Masters, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E. E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, Conrad Aiken. Which, if any, will still be remembered by the 21st...