Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second conference, July 30-August 1, will deal with "The Little Magazine in America." Among the participants will be editor Phillip Rahv of the Partisan Review, novelist and critic Elizabeth Hardwick, and poet Marianne Moore...
...Mann Bond checked into the matter of the testimonial from John Wagner, declared that there was no such person in the phone book and that no one by that name had ever been connected with the university. Professor Robert Hillyer of the University of Delaware, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, said that he had never heard of Henry Fordham...
Died. Walter de la Mare, 83, famed myth-and-mystic British poet (The Listeners), novelist (Memoirs of a Midget) and short-story writer (Seaton's Aunt), whose intensely personal vision earned him membership in the Order of Merit, an honor limited to 24 living persons; of a coronary thrombosis; in Twickenham, England. A delicate, meticulous stylist, shy, ruddy-faced De la Mare was best loved for his children's tales and verses-some as chilling and profound as a child's daydream, others as sensitive and whimsical as the man himself. (Said Poet W.H. Auden: "A child...
...cucumber-sandwich cut above the average summer reading for women. It is one more study in the strange and terrifying fissures that scar the once sturdy heart of the British middle class. The means employed are female. Yet the reader with an attentive eye can see, as did Poet Wystan Auden, how "the crack in the teacup opens a lane to the land of the dead...
...Winter of Cities is a collection of all his poems Tennessee Williams, 42, "wishes to preserve." His publisher believes that they would make him an "important poet if he had not written a line for the stage." What is nearer the truth is that their interest derives from the way they help explain the roiled and vaporous creative innards of the tortured little man who is rated the nation's No. 1 playwright by most U.S. critics...