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g· I l politics. Her present address is 17 West 54th Street, New York City. g g
é In the early part of 1929 the poems of Mary Cummings Eudy began T T
Q to attract wide attention, appearing with increasing frequency in the é
gi . ~ more discrhninating periodicals which featured the best in current I
Q poetry. Harpers published several of her verses; Scribners used her _ f
Q Recriprocity; the New York Herald Tribune ran The Whetstone; and
%“ Eyric’featured in her lovely poem, The Strength of_Delicate Things. _
: The merit of these early works was immediately recognized and from that .
ii time Mrs. Eudy's poems were eagerly sought by such publications as The ,
ir Carillon, Pabns, Voices, The Decimal, Versecraft, Estte§s§rPoets€Eorum, g T
E Scribners, Harpers, The Lyric, Herald Tribune, Westminister Magazine, j Q,
if The Foreword, Shards, English Poetry Studies, British Poetry of Today, Q `
` QM English Poetry Review, Home and Abroad, and many other magazines 3 1
{ which publish the finest in modern English and American verse. l I
IQ She soon won highest acclaim fron such critics and literati as
gv John Erskine, Edwin Mims, Duncan Spaeth of Princeton University,
ii Frederick Packard of Harvard, Edwin Markham, Joseph Auslander, Joseph
`P , Campbell, Zona Gale and the literary editors of metropolitan news-
, papers. Her poems received readings and Mrs. Eudy was sought for   f
ii personal appearances before organizations such as The Poetry Society T {
» of America and The Drama League of America; Harvard, Princeton, North- _l
Qi western and other universities incorporated her work in their English T
y. courses; radio stations and public speakers sought permission to use y
D her verse. She was thus widely known in literary circles by 1955 *
`_.» when she published a selected collection of her own works in a volume `Q
i entitled Qx$Ef§E§;Q§ys$&ls» This served to establish her present wide `4·“
,· reputation and popularity, as the better libraries listed her volume Y
T and an increasing group of people became familiar with her work. The {
book sold out three editions in less than four months. Q
f- Shortly after the appearance of this volume, Mrs. Eudy retired {
A from active business life, resigning from her position as president f
° rv of Mary Cummings, Incorporated, Louisville, Kentucky, and moved to 5
» New York City where she not only continues to write poetry but also A §
_ has taken up the study of sculpture. T
V lt has been said of Mrs. Eudy that she has made her own unique ii
y place among American poets. Certainly all her psems have features in i
E common which give them a character and personality now identifiable Q
{ with their author. For illustration, the development of a single .§
E thought, an almost aphoristic form of sentence and a laconic use of {
Q simple words are found alike in her lovely lyric To A Singing Bird, E
? in hor dramatic The Harlot_Spe&ks and her humorouslyTsatirioEl_SEl?F- F
{ . Acclaim. Her conception of poetry and hor technique for writing—it Q
§ are definitely indicated in the opening and closing verses of. {
Q Qpdrried_Qryst;ls, The opening poem, The Nude, defines poetry as E
é "Thought by words uncovered " . E
ip 'Til to the mind unveiled _g
g Stands Poetry in perfect form" é
if and in the same volume the closing verse of two lines points out her g
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