Word: poetesses
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Divorced. Rose Pastor Stokes, onetime cigarmaker, settlement worker, Communist agitator, and "Russian-Jewish Poetess" by millionaire, onetime-Socialist, philanthropist, James Graham Phelps Stokes...
...name of such a man as Hilaire Belloe, for instance, was the subject of much conflict of opinion. He was characterized impartially as an American lawyer, an Irish novelist, an American poetess, and a French pugilist. Even such a literary figure as Henrik Ibsen had his "Hedda Gabler" described as an insect...
Died. Archduchess Marie Valerie, 56, in Castle Wallsee, Austria. She, the favorite daughter of the late Emperor Franz Josef, was the only poetess of the Habsburg family. To the tree-trunks in his park and woods the Emperor had her verses affixed so that he could see them when he walked abroad...
...sister, Miss Amy Lowell, is a poetess. But she did not write this...
Where does this brilliant young poetess rank among our present-day versifiers? Her lyrics are more moving to me than those of Sara Teasdale or Elinor Wylie; but on the other hand one can think of no woman poet who has quite achieved the breath and flashing brilliance of Amy Lowell. Miss Millay's is a different gift. I should be inclined to rank her second, then, in importance among our women poets, and remembering Lindsay, Frost and Robinson, sixth or seventh among our contemporary versifiers...