Word: wordsworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School, will lecture on Wordsworth on Tuesday, March 19, at a meeting of English...
...letters from Henry Van Dyke to George E. Woodberry, the most representative of which are now on exhibit in the Poetry Room in Widener Library. Writing in a manner which be speaks great friendship and a long acquaintance, Van Dyke states that Woodberry's Gibraltar Sonnets" will live with Wordsworth; he compares the quality of Woodberry's "Hawthorne" to George Inness' painting. Most interesting of them all is one written shortly before the deaths of both men. It reveals the hearts of two old men who have outlived their generation, but who, in the face of change, still cling...
Modern poetry, like experimental science, is always precocious to its day. Even William Wordsworth was once a misunderstood modern, a reprehensible revolutionary. Edwin Arlington Robinson, who last week published his eighth quiet narrative poem, was never considered a blasphemer of the literary gods, but once he was more modern than he is today. Now distinctly a member of the old guard, thrice crowned with the perishable bays of the Pulitzer Prize (1922, 1925, 1927). Robinson is by long odds the most respected living U. S. poet. In his 65th year this New England Browning still turns out a lengthy blank...
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...