Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pound class: Dwyer defeated Sherwood; O'Keefe defeated Hagee; Weiss defeated Butler; Vera defeated Smith...
Herbert Davis, president of Smith College, financier Thomas S. Lamont '21, Thomas D. Cabot '19, playwright Thornton Wilder, David Rockefeller '86, and Henry L. Shattuck '01, member of the Corporation, also have participated in the coast-to-coast support of the Seminar...
Almost his only confidant was a boy named Harry de Forest Smith, whose mind was also stuffed with echoes of books. Robinson once said that Smith was one person to whom he could "take his soul." While Smith was away at school, in 1890, the two boys began a regular correspondence that lasted until 1900 and briefly flared again...
...letters Robinson wrote to Smith have now been made public for the first time. Though not in themselves "great letters," they are a fascinating, often extremely moving record of the youthful travail of an American poet...
...most miserable time began. He was forced to return to Gardiner because his father had died; the family funds were lost in the financial panic of that year. Yet none of these matters were discussed in his letters to Smith. He continued to write, instead, about Thomas Hardy, Matthew Arnold and Nathaniel Hawthorne. During these dreary years he was writing many of the poems that were later hailed as his masterpieces (Luke Haver gal, Richard Cory) and finding that he could place few of them in any magazine in the country. He kept his defeats to himself, letting them...