Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many Manhattanites who used to live there, has been variously entitled the bedroom of New York City, a group of small towns, "the city of churches," and New York's "rive gauche" (left bank). But Brooklyn has an esthetic tradition all its own. There lived Poet Walt Whitman, Critic James Gibbons Huneker, Artist Joseph Pennell. There in the picturesque "Brooklyn Heights" section overlooking New York Harbor, live many refugees from Manhattan's "arty" and despoiled Greenwich Village, including one of the most touted figures in contemporary painting- Yasuo Kuniyoshi (TIME, April 7). And Brooklyn has an art museum...
...Richards '31. F. B. Robinson '31. W. C. Rowe '31, R. K. Safford '31, Marshal Stearns Jr. '31, J. E. Stevens '31, G. N. Talbot 2d '32, John Todd '31, P. A. Tolman '31, R. S. Warner Jr. '32, B. D. White '32, P. M. Whitman '32, F. F. Wilder '32. D. A. Wilson '34, Eliot Wylie...
Peter Morton Whitman '32, of Katonah, New York...
Peter Morton Whitman '32, of Katonah, New York...
Miss Lowell's criticism of Whitman and Dickinson is, on the whole, conservative. She laments the narrowing shelter of Miss Dickinson's friends and points out her great art in "presenting movement." For the author of "Leaves of Grass" she has no superlative praise, but commenting on his writing she declares it is poetry "because he approaches his subject from the poetic point of view." Then comes this significant addition, "what makes a literary work prose or poetry . . . is a matter of approach and of return. By return I mean some device by which a poem is brought continually back...