Word: sonnets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
When he has a split-second to spare Merrill Moore writes a sonnet. He dictates them to his wife, composes them in shorthand between cases at the hospital. improvises them while motoring home. Anything may serve to set him going from the sight of breakfast eggs to the news of the death of the New York World. Typical is his sonnet to the Prince of Wales: My admiration for the Prince of Wales Is far-flung as a fleet of royal sails. Poor fellow, duties he must do as prince, Endless, fatiguing, and yet never wince! ... As deep as cotton...