Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reaction to Golden's confession was overwhelming. Neighbors stopped by to shake hands, telegrams poured in, both phones jangled incessantly. Financier Bernard Baruch, U.N. Mediator Frank Graham and Adlai Stevenson sent their firm support. Poet Carl Sandburg, who wrote the introduction to Golden's book, told a reporter: "This only ties me closer to him." Wired a New York friend: "So what else...
...historian Erwin Panofsky and poet Richard Wilbur will visit Adams House during the coming year under the Ford Foundation grant, Master Reuben A. Brower revealed yesterday. Kirkland House also heads the early planners with "visitors in the social sciences and natural sciences fields definitely included," Master Charles H. Taylor disclosed...
...biggest event of the forum season was supposed to be a publlic reading by Fugitive Poets in honor of John Crowe Ransom, Kenyon College poet-critic who turned 70 earlier this year. The Fugitives wrote poetry as undergraduates at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee in the mid-Twenties, under the tutelage of Ransom, then a young member of the school's faculty. After Ransom's moving reading the night before, four other Fugitives and two guests poets read from their poetry and patted each other on the back. After a while, the latter activity exceeded the former, and when the group...
...TOUCH OF THE POET is the only extant play (the author tore up the others) of that final series in which Eugene O'Neill meant to spell out the dark, brooding mysteries of the human tragedy...
...poet, Robert William Service never sought the level of Percy Bysshe Shelley, would have been as out of place on Parnassus as Shelley in a Klondike saloon. The rhymes that made Service a millionaire w'ooed none of the nine Muses. They reek of male shenanigans and sweat, roar like a Yukon avalanche, teem with rude and lusty characters: Claw-Fingered Kitty, Chewed-Ear Jenkins. Muck-Luck Mag, Blasphemous Bill Mackie. Dangerous Dan McGrew. "Rhyming has my ruin been," Robert Service once wrote, falling unconsciously into the balladeer's inversion. "With less deftness I might have produced real...