Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poet Randall Jarrell tossed his beard in vexation and said: "To most of us, verse, any verse, is so uncongenial, so exhaustingly artificial, that I have often thought that a man could make his fortune by entirely eliminating from our culture verse of any kind. Take for example...
...days of yore, when sacred cows were sizzled on their sticks, are gone and dead. The Lampoon hesitates between offensive iconoclasm and dull despair. If the reader is burdened with the journal's sadism, think of the staff which produces it. as the poet observed upon emerging from the Game Cock one November evening in the 18th century...
...Series, given by a famous poet who is an alumnus of the Advocate, may, however, be given by William Faulkner, neither as an alumnus nor a poet, if the Nobel prizewinner accepts the magazine's invitation...
Robert Lowell, Boston poet, has also been invited to this reading, which will be held in the second or third week of November. Richard G. Eberhart, New England poet gave this series last year...
...John's poetry, which was banned by the Catholic church because it was too independent of the church in its thought, was a point of departure for later 16th century poets, according to Guillen. Three hundred years later, the French poet Charles Baudelaire considered St. John of the Cross "the perfect poet...