Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beat Tammany's bumbling Mayor John Patrick O'Brien in next November's elections? That is the question that has plagued every good Republican and every anti-Tammany man for months & months. Their only chance. they all knew, lay in fusion. Republican Charles Seymour Whitman, New York State's onetime Governor, backed Major General John F. O'Ryan, a political non-entity but a Democrat. Tammany's ablest foe, Democrat Samuel Seabury who drove one Tammany mayor into voluntary exile, would have none of General O'Ryan. Last week after weeks of bickering...
...began appearing in newspapers; he left the farm and took to journalism. Even in his salad days his poems were notable for their uprightness; he considered the age poisoned by the licentiousness of Byron and Shelley, and in later years was said to have hurled a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass into the fire. But he was soon to pipe a fiercer tune. Sacrificing his personal ambition to the cause of Liberty, he "knocked Pegasus on the head, as a tanner does his bark-mill donkey, when he is past service," and at 25 became...
Whittier "really deserves a place with Walt Whitman among our great American poets," unconvinced readers may still prefer James Russell Lowell's dictum: "If we should attempt to depict the peculiar characteristic of Whittier, we should say that of all poets he most truly deserved the name orator...
...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...