Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. The shrewd, pitiless accents of Edgar Lee Masters, who was born in Garnett, Kan., in 1869, were heard in Chicago long before he turned professional poet. He was a trial lawyer with side interests in Democratic politics. Writing poetry was another sideline. His friend, Publisher William Marion Reedy of Reedy's Mirror, refused several of his contributions, but accepted from one "Lester Ford" some subjective epitaphs on imaginary dwellers in an imaginary Illinois town called Spoon River. This "joke" was the beginning of the Spoon River Anthology. But before Spoon River waxed famous, Poet Masters adopted another pseudonym, "Elmer...
...ANGLING is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so," said Izaak Walton; and Bliss Perry's three essays on fishing seem abundant proof of this statement. Only a born angler could write with such gusto, or make the subject seem so alive to the reader. Three essays--"Fishing with a Worm," "Fishing with a Fly," and "Revisiting a River"--make up this book; all appeared in the Atlantic Monthly...
Sirs: Would reply to letter you printed (TIME, April 25) whereby Champion Checker-player Banks desires to write a column on his hobby for TIME. Is it feasible in such a publication as yours ? I think not, absolutely and positively do I answer in the negative. No! If you start one, there is apt to be a deluge of requests for further. What of philately-stamp collecting-of which King George V is one of the leading collectors ? . . . There are many and varied other columns that might be conducted, AND, I think, other columns which WOULD be more attractive...
...Cosima (Frau von Bülow, natural daughter of Franz Liszt) who provided the stimulus for the Ring series and whom Wagner loved most of all. In his relations with these ladies, Wagner provided the world with one of those astonishing paradoxes by which a brilliant man is enabled to write love letters which in their idiotic banality would have disgraced Daddy Browning, to conduct his indiscretions in a manner of an unfaithful cloak-and-suit drummer, and to make these mediocrities important by virtue of the astounding music into which the chemistry of genius transformed them...
While resting from his actual classwork duties in Harvard, Professor Spalding will write his "History of the Development of Music at Harvard" for the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of the University, to be held...