Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lodge's father George, a poet† whom Theodore Roosevelt called a "genius" and Historian Henry Adams remembered as "the best and finest product of my time," died when Lodge was seven, and thereafter the boy was guided by his grandfather and namesake, the elegant and scholarly U.S. Senator (1893-1924) Henry Cabot Lodge Sr. Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, the elder Lodge was one of the most eminent and powerful Senators of his time. Growing up under his care, young Lodge absorbed his grandfather's fascination with politics-and his nationalist opinions...
...metaphysical commitment," he continued, "a poet goes into fantasies." He read the humorous "Captain Carpenter," and some nonsense poems: "Our Two Worthies," "Her Eyes,"--a "vindictive" poem about a woman who "came to our house too much" and "was taller than I,"--and the "Survey of Literature...
...sombre note was introduced with the playing of a recording of the late Merrill Moore reading a number of his poems about death, Seamus O'Neill, an Irish poet, read three of his poems that had been translated from the Gaelic, noting, "it puzzles me that people who have no knowledge of Irish history are still interested in it." Mr. Chaney then called the Fugitive movement "the greatest philosophical meetings" of his life...
...does Poet Robert Hillyer...
Though the Kenyon poet's reading this evening is open to all free of charge, the talk and forum tomorrow is open only to those holding passes. These may be obtained from Miss Venuti in Weld Hall 2b, as long as spaces are available in the Forum Room...