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...however, are defects which one must suppose the poet deliberately risked for the sake of his valid achievements. A part of Hart Crane's ambition, as his essay on "Modern Poetry," (included in this volume) indicates, was to assimilate the urban and mechanical aspects of contemporary life while resuming Whitman's celebration of the American nation. To this task he brought an exceptionally large and varied poetic vocabulary, and it fecundity in metaphor with appears unique in contemporary poetry. Poems like "Lachrymae Christi," "Belle Isle, " and-the lyrical portions of "The Bridge," have surface brightness of texture alien to most...
...trying to escape. Poems which he wrote while imprisoned were praised by Clarence Darrow, Zona Gale. Russian-born, he is now 29. In 1930 he wrote a book called Love In Chicago under the pseudonym of Charles Walt, combined Christian names of his favorite authors-Dickens and Whitman. Author Bein's anonymity was assumed to save his brother, a Chicago architect, embarrassment. In 1930 he also wrote Youth In Hell, another reform school story. The Group Theatre is now considering his The House of Kuvalsky...
Married. Charles Seymour Whitman, 64, onetime (1915-18) Governor of New York; and Thelma Cudlipp Grosvenor, 40, relict of Attorney Edwin Prescott Grosvenor who was a cousin of William Howard Taft; in Manhattan...
...Lenin." Archibald MacLeish: "Pound, more than any other man, is responsible for the emancipation of modern English poetry from the prose tradition of the 19th Century." A large section of serious critics think Pound is not only best of living U. S. poets but the only one since Walt Whitman to exert a great influence in Europe...
...Whitman," Assistant Professor Matthiessen, Harvard...