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...night club, the Trocadero, and thought they were going to take me there but somehow they missed directions and wound up at the police station. Very rotten taste, you know, mistaking a police station for the Trocadero." Apologizing in New York for the short comings of his sonnet on the death of King George V,* England's sad, frail Poet Laureate John Masefield explained that it was written while he had a bad chest cold, scrawled out with his left hand because California handshakers had disabled his right. The Hecksher Foundation for Children launched a drive for winter relief...
Died, Lizette Woodworth Reese, 79, poet (A Branch of May, Wayside Lute), author of the sonnet "Tears," for 48 years a teacher in Baltimore's public schools; in Baltimore...
Unlike the classicals, he substitutes assonance for end time. Since almost every possible time has been used already, he argues, the added freedom makes for freshness. Since the mold of sonnet, both in form and rhythm is fixed in his mind, he opens automatically when he has composed 14 lines...
...post requires, Poet Laureate John Masefield, onetime Manhattan saloon porter, last week cracked out with a Silver Jubilee sonnet. Text...
...poem by Dr. Theodore Spencer, instructor in English and a sonnet by Robert S. Hillyer '17, associate professor of English complete the balance of this issue...