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The poet E. E. Cummings sang of a " famous doctor who inserts monkeyglands in millionaires ", and Chicago surgeon Max Thorek, for whom the Thorek Hospital and Medical Center is named, recalled that soon, " fashionable dinner parties and cracker barrel confabs, as well as sedate gatherings of the medical élite, were alive with the whisper-' Monkey Glands '.
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Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936 ), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.
* Roland Milk: insipid poet ( possible ancestor of Private Eye's " E. J. Thribb ").
* 1977 – Anatol E. Baconsky, Romanian poet, novelist and literary art critic ( b. 1925 )
* 1894 – E. E. Cummings, American poet ( d. 1962 )
* 1883 – T. E. Hulme, English poet and critic ( d. 1917 )
The group included the musician, poet, and artist E. L. T. Mesens, painter and writer René Magritte, Paul Nougé, Marcel Lecomte, and André Souris.
Guests included author E. R. Eddison and South African poet Roy Campbell.
* April 26 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet ( b. 1882 )
* September 3 – E. E. Cummings, American poet ( b. 1894 )
* February 4 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet ( d. 1964 )
* October 14 – E. E. Cummings, American poet ( d. 1962 )
He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1930 to 1933, during which time he fell under the influence both of the poet A. E. Housman, then Professor of Latin at the university, and of the writings of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
In Moscow, Bakunin soon became friends with a group of former university students, and engaged in the systematic study of Idealist philosophy, grouped around the poet Nikolay Stankevich, “ the bold pioneer who opened to Russian thought the vast and fertile continent of German metaphysics ” ( E. H. Carr ).
One poet well known for his visual poems, and therefore visual iconicity, is E. E. Cummings.
Lawrence's friends asked the Scottish poet Thomas Campbell to write the artist's biography, but he passed the task on to D. E.
'" Patchen also had a close, lifelong friendship with the poet E. E.
* E. E. Cummings, poet
* Joy Farm, home of poet E. E. Cummings
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And indeed, his postcard did draw from Walter a letter recommending his friend, the poet Nicolas Manas, to his friend Meredith Wilder.
Ballet dancer: Protests, tears, and `` take what you want, Nicolas, I am a dancer, you are a poet, it is all beautiful ''.
She began to explain, `` There was this poet, in Italy '' He interrupted, `` Please don't judge all poets ''.
Or the mode of love to this fragment by a recent poet: `` Know ye, fair folk who dwell on earth Or shall hereafter come to birth, That here, with dust upon his eyes, Iraj, the sweet-tongued singer, lies.
Others, less consciously but quite probably influenced by the trends of the times, experiment with approaches that parallel those of the contemporary poet, painter, and musician.
If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.
One beat poet composes a poem, `` Lines On A Tijuana John '', which contains a few happy hints for survival.
How is the beat poet to achieve unity of form when he is at the same time engaged in a systematic derangement of senses.
Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.
The contributors to this testament were all well-known: a former Democratic candidate for President, a New Deal poet, the magazine's chief editorial writer, two newspaper columnists, head of a national broadcasting company, a popular Protestant evangelist, etc..
He is the stern guardian of the status quo who has raised the utilitarian structures of the age, and he is the revolutionary poet with a gun in his hand who writes a tragic apologetic to posterity for the men he has killed.
To play the guitar as he aspires will devour his three-fold energy as a historian, a poet and a singer.
The heart of this great poet constantly bubbles forth a generous joy of life -- with or without the guitar ''.
`` He wanted Mr. Sandburg to pose with one of the guitars he had displayed behind glass in the center of his shop, but the poet eyed this somewhat distastefully.
Something indirect, mixed, reconciling, tensional might well be the stratagem, the devious technique by which a poet indulged in all kinds of talk about love and anger and even in something like `` expressions '' of these emotions, without aiming at their incitement or even uttering anything that essentially involves their incitement ''.
From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.
Yet Davidson impressed him as a poet capable of `` sustained power, passion, or beauty '', and he cited specific passages to illustrate not only these qualities but Davidson's command of imagery as well.
After all, Pike was an established poet and his work had been published in the respectable periodicals of that center of American culture, Boston.
In Plato's mind there is an irresolvable conflict between the poet and the philosopher, because the poet imitates only particular objects and is incapable of rising to the first level of abstraction, much less the highest level of ideal forms.
The poet was by definition a realist, his imaginings and parables being natural organizations of reality.
The knights for Warwickshire in this parliament, which ended its session on February 9, were Fulke Greville ( the poet ) and William Combe of Warwick, as Fulke Greville and Edward Greville had been in 1593.
Thus the copywriter in the world of the space merchants is the person who in earlier ages might have been a lyric poet, the person `` capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing ''.
Speaking in terms of sociological stereotype, the `` private eye '' might appeal to the poet in search of a myth for many reasons.
An Italian poet had noticed plainclothes policemen lounging around the area of Quirinal Palace, the first time since the war.
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