Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dreariness of the discussion) on the nature of true nonsense verse. Lewis Carroll's technique, and informs us triumphantly of the awful libel that the author of "Alice" may have been the inventor of cross-word puzzles. His comments and foot-notes sound as if they had been written for a volume of Thornton Burgess' "Mother West Wind Stories"; among them he convinced one reader that, talk as he may about the technique of Lewis Carroll's nonsense, Mr. Reed never yet say the joke in it all and has somewhat strained his eyes trying to look...
...progress. At such times, the tramper searches his memory for some poem to symbolize that steady, grinding advance, a perspiring conquest analogous in a small way to the sustained march of the pioneers across this country. No such uphill epic has, so far as I know, ever been written...
...settled down to read a long article. At first he seemed taken up with the meat of it; then suddenly his eyes began to twinkle again and he chuckled out loud. "By George!" he said, slapping his thigh, and turning to a man beside him, "That was a well written article." Then he stopped, and seemed embarrassed to have spoken. But the man next to him began to ask about TIME, and when the old man got off at Wall Street the other man did also and they left the car chatting together about my favorite magazine almost...
...receipt of one of your appeals for subscriptions. As it happens, I frequently read TIME, admire it and enjoy it. I note that TIME claims to be "the only complete summary of all the news" and to be written for "America's most intelligent men and women." But I note also that agriculture is almost completely ignored in its columns. Can it be that there is no news in agriculture, or that farmers are not intelligent, or that no intelligent people are interested in agriculture ? Or is it that since agriculture has to do primarily with filling people...
...foolish phrase. But it is certain that Ezra Pound is ... a poet that doth drink life As lesser men drink wine. He has been mad through the mountains of Cabaret with Peire Vidal, maddest jongleur of the old time. For the marriage at Cana in Galilee he has written a dance figure that is, so far as one can feel, no less lovely than any marriage ever was. In his swift, light, swirling pages are a host of echoes -of tall women and barbecues in Troy; a chant for the transmutation of metals under the larches of Paradise (Middle Ages...