Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the plot, which was written by Dori Schmidt, appears much less inane that those which inflict many musicals. The story deals with the antagonism between an esoteric poet, and a poet-hating female stock broker, and the somewhat hestitant romance between their children...
Most of the cast is as good as the other aspects of the production. Rosalind Froug, the stock broker, has an overwhelming stage presence and a pleasant singing voice. As the poet, Frederic Morehouse is at least adequate, though at times he is a little too jocular for an exalted writer, while Lee Jeffries and James Spiegler make an appealing romantic couple. And another couple, played by Betsy Nelson and Fred Mueller, is funny enough to stop the show. In addition, the direction of Hugh Fortmiller helps to make Tea and Empathy into a show at least as good...
...telegram read: "I have just received news of your award. I take the long view expressed by the 18th century poet John Wolto, who said: 'What rage for fame attends both great and small, better be damned than not mentioned...
...library used income from a bequest of the American imagist poet, Amy Lowell, to purchase the manuscripts from the poet's grandson, Sir Charles Tennyson. Three-fourths of the approximately 650 drafts of the poems are in Tennyson's own handwriting...
...poet's celebrated works, from the earliest surviving poem, a verse translation of Claudian's "Prosperine," to his last work, "The Death of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale," are in this collection, Jackson said. Only the manuscript of "Locksley Hall," now owned by Yale, is missing...