Word: soldier-poet
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Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italian soldier-poet: "It is reported that upon hearing that Eleanora Duse, whom I once loved but whom I have not seen for years, is to play in Manhattan this Fall in my Citta Morta, I said: 'If it be true, I shall be there myself! Nothing has affected me in years as has this news...
...with great pleasure that I take up the sword in defence of your position regarding the soldier-poet of Italy. Your editorial on Gabricle D'Annunzio was unbiased and moderate. Yet, I frankly admit, such a weak position is to me untenable...
...occupy as dramatic a place in history as the thousand "Red Shirts" who had conquered Naples 60 years before. Today, uncompromisingly opposed by the Great Powers, rebuffed by the government at Rome, and with his tenure of control of Flume but a matter of weeks at most, the Italian soldier-poet speaks with the same old air of bravado...
...Among the bravest men I knew in England were those who had the courage to refuse to fight," declared Siegfried Sassoon, the English soldier-poet, who spoke before a large audience in the Living Room of the Union last night. "Thank God that in that terrible time there were men strong enough to suffer for their convictions...
Tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union, Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, the young British soldier-poet, will lecture on contemporary English writers, and will give a commentative reading of selections from his own poems. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the Harvard and New England Poetry Clubs, through whose kindness all members of the Union are invited to attend. The speaker will be introduced by Robert S. Hillyer '17, president of the Harvard Poetry Club...