Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cliff hanger Van Doren gave his fellow sufferers something special to cheer about -he broke TV's record ($100,000) for big giveaway bonanzas, built his winnings up to $104,500. As a result of it all, Bachelor Van Doren, son of Poet Mark Van Doren,* has become a sort of All-America Ph.D. When he enters his English classroom at Columbia University, his students rise to cheer him. He is being swamped with TV offers and marriage proposals. (A tax expert said he could save $16,000 by getting married this year, and a girl wrote: "I would...
...Last Word (Sun. 2:30 p.m.. CBS). John Mason Brown and Bergen Evans host Poet Ogden Nash...
...England's Kathleen Raine has learned to like the unbuttered bread which is the traditional reward of a poet's poet. Daughter of an English schoolmaster, and a teacher herself from necessity, she could give useful lessons to all but a handful of poets now writing. Yet sales of her poetry, in the U.S. (if not in Britain), are slender, and it is not hard to see why. Few readers want to be so sharply reminded of the fact that life on earth is transient, and fewer still can distill comfort from the belief that birth...
...seem now as dead as any other journalism." And she believes that poems written according to formal rules are "but an imitation of poetry." What, then, is left? A compact, pocket-sized jewel case of highly personal and rare poetic experiences that have less outward shine than inner glow. Poet Raine's father was a spare-time nonconformist preacher in suburban London, but there is no doubt that a Buddhist would understand better than a Christian the implications of The Sphere...
...Fellow-Poet Robert Graves can only worship before eternal woman, "The Goddess" of whom he often writes. But a visionary woman like Poet Raine, conscious of her mortality, can herself become the Goddess when she declaims...