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Still expansive, II Duce plumped himself down at the head of a table between two women reporters, one from France, one from Germany, unbuttoned the top of his tunic, banged on the table with a spoon, shouted for food. He lolled on the table, leaning his head on his fist, twisting his head back and forth toward each of his guests. A messenger rushed in importantly, pushed an official message under II Duce's nose. II Duce glanced over it with a sleepy look, waved the messenger away. Eventually a mountain of spaghetti appeared. News to the foreign Press...
...cerebral 15th Century meant much the same thing, but they might say 'Little by little the cat eateth up the bacon thickle.' or 'Feather by feather the goose is plucked'. . . ." Proverbs as a literary fashion died out with the 17th Century, but still remain the spoon-fed wisdom of the unsophisticated, the crutch for halting orators, the handy rubber stamp of hack-writers cramped for time...
...essential note in Spoon River was one of protest, of radical nationalism, of bitter resentment that U. S. poets and artists were so consistently abused and neglected by the country at large. In subsequent volumes Masters' poems, characterized by long speculations on vague concepts of life, nature, the soul, contrasted oddly with the concise, concrete images of recognizable human fates that had been the distinction of Spoon River...
...reputation for gruffness, Edgar Lee Masters lives in an obscure hotel in the Chelsea district of Manhattan, seldom appears at New York literary gatherings. Since he dresses carelessly, wears heavy spectacles and a characteristic expression of thin-lipped disapproval, he looks not unlike some Midwestern deacon described in Spoon River Anthology. Baldish, he dislikes being photographed except when wearing a hat. Hilary, his 7-year-old son by his second marriage, summers with him in New York, winters in Kansas City with his mother...
...fierce resentment at the low estate of poets in contemporary U. S. society. The 38 poems in Invisible Landscapes, ranging from patriotic pieces like Give Us Back Our Country, to the obscure, arid, rambling speculations of Hymn to the Earth, are far below the level of Spoon River...