Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Never having been outside Spain before and not knowing a word of English, the young poet was swirled down into big city life at the height of the Bull Market days. And he reacted to the city in such an elemental way that the poetry which resulted--discordant, night-marish, nearly surrealistic--was utterly unlike anything he had written before. In fact, Lorca's Poet in New York was so different from his early Canciones or the gypsy ballads in Romancero Gitano that many scholars try to consider it outside and unrelated to the course of the poet's stylistic...
...positive force, a feature of the primitive existence of blood and earth they are part of. Death in modern society is by fear put out of mind, that is why the inescapable fact of it is so sordid. It is the difference between regenerate and unregenerate. The poet is alarmed at this turning away from death while being surrounded by it, and in the long poem Dance of Death Lorca finds the one group in all the New York millions which has not turned away--the Negroes...
Robert Penn Warren, prize-winning poet and novelist, will give a reading of his own poetry at New Lecture Hall today at 4:30 under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund...
...ritual in the traditional robes, white-thatched New England Poet Robert Frost, 82, will be given honorary degrees next month by both Cambridge and Oxford-one of the few Americans to be so honored in recent times. Other Americans to receive the same double distinction: Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1868 and Poet-Diplomat James Russell Lowell in 1873. Said Poet Frost: "I guess you could say this caps my career. After all, I've written only one book-one book of about 600 pages. That's about ten pages a year over a 60-year period...
...Massachusetts Avenue site, while Yard dwellers suggested a lot near Memorial Hall. In a gesture of compromise, the building was erected on Quincy Street, a four-minute walk for both rich and poor. The Harvard Union's dedication in 1902 was an impressive display of class and College spirit. Poet Charles Warren breathed...