Word: zaturenska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HISTORY OF AMERICAN POETRY, 1900-1940 (524 pp.)-Horace Gregory and Marya Zaturenska-Harcourf, Brace...
Poetry's modern apologists have cried up modern poetry as such a dark art that many an intelligent reader has given it up as sense-making literature, written by human beings for human beings. In this book, Poets Gregory and Zaturenska (Mrs. Gregory) do a good deal to bring the 20th Century Pegasus back to earth. They contend that U.S. poetry in this century, gaming "in the virility and'brilliance of its speech," has become the best in the English-speaking world...
Horace Gregory (46), has been a practicing poet and critic for 20 years and has taught for the last twelve years at Sarah Lawrence College. Russian-born Marya Zaturenska won the Pulitzer Prize in 1938 for her book of poems, Cold Morning Sky. The Mandarin prose of the Gregorys sometimes gets out of hand, running to dreamy convolutions, their urbanity sometimes permits open enjoyment of an innuendo none too polite; their estimates of one or two poets, notably John Gould Fletcher, are horrifyingly kind, and of one or two others, notably Laura Riding, apparently insensible. But in the main...
...second reading in the Morris Gray Poetry Series for the Spring Term will be by Marya Zaturenska on Friday, April 21 at 4:30 o'clock, in the Poetry Room in Widener Library. The last reading was by Robert Penn Warren on March...
...than a tribute to the editor who single-handled amassed this list of famous names, but who apparently could not reject the cast-offs to those authors who print their best elsewhere. The contributions of William Carlos Williams, Djuna Barnes, and Horace Gregory are less than shamefully insignificant. Marya Zaturenska's "Organ, Harp, and Violin," a palpable parroting of Dryden's "song for St. Cecilia's Day," combines with a host of insignificantly obscure poetry to bewilder the reader and to detract from the worthwhile portions of the issue...