Word: sonnets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teacher. From England last fortnight an attempted corrective arrived in the U. S. Called The Voice of Poetry, it consists of six phonograph records* containing recordings of 30 English poems, recited by English Actress Edith Evans. A well-chosen anthology, it contains such favorite pieces as Shakespeare's sonnet ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought . . ."), Blake's The Tiger, Lewis Carroll's Father William, John Masefield's Cargoes. What lifted the hackles on troubled U. S. listeners' necks was not the voice of the poets but the dying-swan voice of Edith Evans...
Merrill Moore, like William Carlos Williams, is a doctor who also professes poetry. A rich, restless Boston psychiatrist who likes long-distance swimming and long-distance sonnet-writing, Merrill Moore has written so many sonnets (50,000) that he habitually thinks in blocks of 14 lines. Since his 18th year he has written an average of five sonnets a day, and as many as 100 in four hours. This month he published a few of them: M: One Thousand Autobiographical Sonnets (Harcourt, Brace...
Outdoing all other sonnet writers in volume, anyway Merrill Moore, Boston psychiatrist, WPA director, and teacher at the Harvard Medical School, is about to publish 1,000 of the 50,000 (50,000) sonnets he has composed in his 35 years...
...most interest is the manuscript of the famous sonnet, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." In it glares the poet's notorious historical error for he had set down Cortes staring at the Pacific instead of Balboa, the rightful discoverer...
...verse sometimes betrays another characteristic of young men's verse: an ineptitude with, and reliance upon, adjectives. Yet his average is high, and his best poems are those that are consistently good; his unevenness is confined mostly to the shorter lyrics. He is at his best in the sonnet -- there are a dozen that are really good...