Walter Hard - Vermont Poet album flac

This Recording was Made by Allison Boright during a Benefit Reading by Walter Hard for the Bur and Burton Seminary on September 14, 1959. 30 Cents to "Bert and I", Post Office Box 26, Cambridge 38, Mass.

Walter Hard's reputation as a folk poet has steadily grown since he first began to write a column for the Manchester Journal in 1926 and published his first book, Some Vermonters, a year later. His irregular free verse, so deceptively "unpoetic" at first appearance, achieves a remarkable range of effect in re-creating the Vermont country scene. Carl Sandburg says of him: "Walter Hard is poet, annalist, anecdote finder I find his Yankees more fascinating than most of the Greeks in Greek mythology.

Moonlight in Vermont" is a popular song about the . state of Vermont, written by John Blackburn (lyrics) and Karl Suessdorf (music) and published in 1944. The lyrics are unusual in that they do not rhyme. John Blackburn, the lyricist, has been quoted as saying, "After completing the first 12 bars of the lyric, I realized there was no rhyme and then said to Karl, 'Let’s follow the pattern of no rhyme throughout the song.

Walter Potashnik Benton (October 27, 1904 – March 7, 1976) was an American poet and writer. Benton was born to Russian immigrant parents living in Austria. The family left Europe in 1913 to relocate to the United States during World War I. During the Great Depression, Benton worked various odd jobs, enabling him to attend Ohio University, where he graduated in 1934

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832, Edinburgh, Scotland). I have written a Poem in celebration of Sir Walter Scott, called Lift Off. A stone rocket sits on Princes st, it hasn't moved for years. Its fuel used up many years ago, in the writing of great man who sits beneath i. aking us all on a journey, fixed both in history and in the work of the readers and writers who followed.

It's a sad month for Vermont poetry.

He worked very hard at i. .It meant a lot that his poetry was in the minds and heart of Vermonters," Bristol said in a telephone interview from their home in the remote town of Sheffield, in the state's Northeast Kingdom region.