Word: taggard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some of them perhaps to try to emulate Poet Stephen Vincent Benet, who wrote John Brown's Body during his year abroad. Among the fellows: Author Maurice Hindus (Humanity Uprooted), Playwright-Director Em Jo Basshe (Earth), Author Walter Stanley Campbell (pseudonym Stanley Vestal), Poets Hart Crane and Genevieve Taggard, Painters Marsden Hartley and Ione Robinson, Sculptor Harold Cash (his second grant), Penologist Joseph Fulling Fishman, Composer Henry Dixon Cowell, Architect Cecil Clair Briggs,* Economist Herbert Heaton, Director William Edward Zeuch of Commonwealth College (Mena, Ark.), many a college professor, and ten Mexican, Chilean and Argentine scholars...
...LIFE AND MIND OF EMILY DICKINSON-Genevieve Taggard-Knopf ($4). Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, foremost woman poet of her country, wrote thousands of poems, never published one during her lifetime. Since her death (1886) her poetry and the secrets of her spinster life have gradually been coming to light...
When her family allowed some of her poetry and letters (carefully edited) to be printed, rumor grew that Emily had had an unhappy love affair, but who the man was nobody knew for certain. Biographer Genevieve Taggard says she has discovered him, has sworn statements to prove it. Says she: his name was George Gould, a lanky Amherst undergraduate (he was 6 ft. 8 in.), later an eloquent divine of Worcester, Mass. Emily loved him, would not marry him against her father's wishes. After twelve years he took a wife; Emily died a virgin...
...grown into the habit of being a recluse. Hypersensitive about venturing into the unreal daily world, she finally would not address her many letters, had her sister do it for her, or else pasted printed addresses on the envelopes. Though she seemed to live in a vacuum, says Biographer Taggard: "We think it now the busiest spot in the 19th Century...
Author Genevieve Taggard, herself no mean poet, spent ten years getting the material for this book. Born in Waitsburg, Wash., she was educated at the University of California, was one of the founder-editors of The Measure: A Journal of Verse (1920-26). Biographer Taggard teaches English Literature at Mount Holyoke College. Other books: Words for the Chisel, Travelling Standing Still...