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England's first serious soldier-poet was discovered last week by Beverley Nichols in the person of a sergeant of the Royal Artillery, a onetime Etonian named A. H. V. Longman. But his Old Age, published in a regimental magazine, will hardly encourage anybody to enlist. Its theme is the disillusion and precocious soul-hardening of Europe's young men. The poem...
...oaks were dedicated in New Brunswick, N. J. at the hitherto treeless home of the late Soldier-Poet Joyce Kilmer (Trees...
...34th adventure story, The Sword of Islam (Houghton Mifflin, $2.50), compares favorably with his best work (Scaramouche, Captain Blood). As dramatic as Italian opera without music, it is as ornately composed as Italian pastry. Laid in the 16th Century, it concerns one Prospero Adorno, wide-browed, slim-hipped soldier-poet, who first appears as commander of a naval squadron blockading Genoa. He changes sides several times, several times buys and talks his way out of captivity, is dishonored, vindicated, at last makes mincemeat of the Moslems, wins beautiful Gianna. Who fights whom is immaterial-the main thing is that they...
Married. Christopher Kilmer, 20, son of the late Soldier-Poet Joyce Kilmer (Trees'); and Alberta Taylor Daniel, 22; in Arlington...
True that William Haines Lytle's famed "Antony to Cleopatra" begins "I am dying, Egypt, dying!" But Soldier-Poet Lytle (1826-1863) presumably took his cue from Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, Sc. 15, which contains the line. More about General Lytle will appear in the Sept. 17 issue of LETTERS, a new fortnightly published by TIME, Inc. For details about LETTERS...