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...names are still respectfully remembered: Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson. Of the U. S. poets which the first third of the 20th Century has brought to birth, modern readers could name a dozen who are fairly well-known: T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robinson Jeffers, Edgar Lee Masters, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E. E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, Conrad Aiken. Which, if any, will still be remembered by the 21st Century? Eliot and Pound, heading most contemporary lists, seem fairly safe. Last week another name was proposed for the Hall...
...collection are Miss Lowell's notebooks, manuscripts, rare examples of her early work, and her vast correspondence with literary figures in America and England, including Robert Frost, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy, Richard Aldington, Vachel Lindsay, Barrett Wendell, Harriet Monroe, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Eleanora Duse, John Drinkwater, Conrad Alken, and Ezra Pound...
Small colleges, like small countries, are often more fertile of ideas than big ones. Last week came news of an unusual idea from small Hiram College (enrollment: 325) in Hiram, Ohio. The alma mater of Poet Vachel Lindsay and of U. S. President James A. Garfield, who was once (1857-63) its principal when it was named Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, Hiram started a summer school in 1931 on the "intensive study" plan. Instead of working on a number of things at once, Hiram students spent six weeks exclusively on one subject. Two years ago young President Kenneth Irving Brown...
Died. Harriet Monroe, 75, Chicago poet, founder & editor of the magazine Poetry, which first published the poems of Hilda Doolittle ("H. D."), Joyce Kilmer's Trees, Vachel Lindsay's General William Booth Enters Into Heaven; of cerebral hemorrhage; at Arequipa, Peru...
...Mayer Cohen '36, of Brooklyn, New York, took second with selections from "John Brown's Body" by Stephen Vincent Benet, while David Park McAllester '38, of Everett, placed third, giving Vachel Lindsay's "The Congo...