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Thomas Hardy has said that the U. S. is notable only for skyscrapers and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Poetess Elinor Wylie has likened her friend to the peculiarly American sea off the coast of Maine, where much of The Henchman was written. Both these admirers were trying to express their feeling that Miss Millay is racially important; that, burning her candle early and late, for light of love and long hours of devoted folk-scholarship, she embodies both the high, bright folly and the brave integrity of a race given equally to deeds and dreaming...
...competition for prizes, forced hot-house flowers, that wilted soon after exposure. Some were independent experiments, brilliant in spots, dull on the whole. An opera requires musicianship but it fails without the accompaniment of theatre. So Signor Gatti-Casazza selected the creators of the Henchman. Edna St. Vincent Millay, poetess with a dramatic sense, was to write the libretto (TIME, Jan. 17); Deems Taylor, composer of concert music, onetime music critic of the N. Y. World, would provide the score...
...Haven, Conn, on Jan. 26, Richard Starr Untermeyer, 20, Yale sophomore, son of Poet-Critic Louis Untermeyer, read a letter from his mother (Poetess Jean Starr Untermeyer) deploring the repeated overdraft of his bank balance and telling him he must improve or leave college-and hanged himself."-TIME...
...Haven, Conn., on Jan. 26, Richard Starr Untermeyer, 20, Yale sophomore, son of Poet-Critic Louis Untermeyer, read a letter from his mother (Poetess Jean Starr Untermeyer) deploring the repeated overdraft of his bank balance and teling him he must improve or leave college-and hanged himself...
...clock this morning in Sever 6, Professor Burkhard will lecture on Lenau and two contemporaries somewhat related in spirit, Eduard Morike and Germany's foremost poetess. Annette von Droste-Hulshoff...