Word: walts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than the art of poetry of Milton or the art of poetry of Keas, yet Milton and Keats were more poets than Pope. Question: Is an art of poetry necessary to poetry? (An art implies conscious knowledge and choice of what is art and what is not art.) Answer: Walt had no art of poetry and Walt was a poet...
...Could Walt Whitman have spent four years at Harvard and then have written 'Leaves of Grass'? Impossible." Mr. William W. Ellsworth, veteran publisher and until a few years ago president of the Century Company, advanced this question and the emphatic answer to it in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter...
...tell the true in literature from the false, but is there anything in his teaching that will help him to create? General college culture doubtless increased the powers of a Lowell or a Long-fellow, but it might have been a positive draw back to the originality of Walt Mason, Mark Twain, or James Whitcomb Riley. At no time in their lives could those men have passed an examination for the freshman class of any American college. Think of the conditions that would be heaped today upon the head of William Shakespeare if he knocked at the gates of Oxford...
...Lava Lane)) have floored the pundits, made good Poet Erwin Markham grumble into his beard (TIME, Nov. 23, MISCELLANY) and won her an invitation to join the Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers (Poet Thomas Hardy, President), the first invitation to any American since that other, rubicund Brooklynite, Walt Whitman...
VACHEL LINDSAY'S poems (for, generally speaking, they are poems) will make any reviewer search his soul for the private definition of poetry on the basis of which he is supposedly working. They are, contradiction or not, colloquial and affected, at the same time reminiscent of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, and yet this latest volume of his verse shows that he can still hit down at the root of things in the same manner that has made "General William Booth" and "The Congo" such favorites with both perspicuous readers and amateur reciters...