Word: poetesses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Midst laurels stood: Poetess Phyllis McGinley, 58, awarded Notre Dame's annual Laetare Medal, the most prestigious honor conferred on a Roman...
Decoction of Foxglove. All biographers of Erasmus Darwin are dependent on a contemporary account written by a poetess and neighbor, Miss Anna Seward, sometimes known as "the Swan of Lichfield." Anna carried on a lifelong flirtation with him (they exchanged playful love letters on behalf of their cats), and remembered him as a man given to "sarcasm of very keen edge" and so "inclined to corpulence" that he had to have a semicircular hole cut in the table to accommodate him at meals. "A fool," the doctor used to say to Anna, "is a man who never tried an experiment...
...Brazilian studying Latin American economics, I congratulate you on your fine cover story on Mr. Mann [Jan. 31]. Finally the U.S. State Department has an effectual person who realizes the necessity for a diversified policy for Latin America. To quote the Chilean poetess Gabriela Mistral, "The only thing that keeps Latin America united is its unified fear...
AMEDEO MODIGLIANI-Perls, 1016 Madison Ave. at 78th St. Twenty-two paintings and two pieces of sculpture. Among the oval-faced, almond-eyed portraits are two of British Poetess Beatrice Hastings. One painting, Le Garcon Rouge, has never been shown in New York before. Through...
AMEDEO MODIGLIANI-Perls, 1016 Madison Ave. at 78th St. Twenty-two paintings and two pieces of sculpture. Among the oval-faced, almond-eyed portraits are two of British Poetess Beatrice Hastings. One painting, Le Garçon Rouge, has never been shown in New York before. Through...