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Died. Chaim Nachman Bialik, 61, Hebrew poet, "Wordsworth of Hebrew literature." critic, journalist, Yiddish-Hebrew translator; of a heart attack following an operation; in Vienna. An English translation of his poems was published...
...three men chosen were: Roy M. Cohen '36, who read from "John Brown's Body" by Stephen Vincent Bent, Tucker Dean '37, reading poems by Elizabeth and Robert Browning, and Roy W. Winsauer '36, who presented selections from Browning, Shelley, and Wordsworth...
...Conventional, silent, learned, a recluse, he has made few and brief appearances in public. Around such academic figures there always spring up apocryphal tales. After a better-than-ordinary dinner Housman is reported to have made this speech: "Cambridge has seen some strange sights. It has seen the poet Wordsworth drunk, and the philosopher Person sober. Tonight it sees a better poet than Person and a better philosopher than Wordsworth, neither drunk nor sober, but just betwixt-and-between...
...Wordsworth," Professor Lowes, Sever...
...with a regard for the importance of authoritative religion in his outlook, although he is very fond of the extreme modernists such as Joyee, said that he was sympathetic to only a few English poems of the Romantic Movement. Be prefers the short ones, and a few pieces of Wordsworth. Keats, he showed, was attaining a higher criterion for poetical values. Be indicated passages in Keat's letters, which more than anything else, show this romanticist to have outgrown the pulpit type of poetry. Mr. Eliot differed with Keats on the latter's pronouncement that Beauty is Truth and vice...