I lived from 1881-1960.
I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.
I was influenced by poet Bert Leston Taylor.
New York City byname F.P.A., U.S. newspaper columnist, translator, poet, and radio personality whose humorous syndicated column "The Conning Tower" earned him the reputation of godfather of the contemporary newspaper column. He wrote primarily under his initials, F.P.A.
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Adams' newspaper career began in 1903, with the Chicago Journal. The next year he went to New York, where he wrote for several newspapers. From 1913 to 1937 his column, "The Conning Tower," appeared in the Herald Tribune and several other New York newspapers, interrupted only during the years of World War I, when Adams wrote a column for Stars and Stripes, and from 1923 to 1931, when he worked for the New York World until it ceased publication. Witty and well-written, his columns consisted of informal yet careful critiques of the contemporary U.S. scene. His column also included writing by such authors as Dorothy Parker and Sinclair Lewis. His Saturday columns imitated the language and style of Samuel Pepys' diary, and Adams is credited with a renewal of interest in Pepys.
Adams' poetry is light and conventionally rhymed. He hated free verse
and was never slow in expressing this opinion. His verse is collected
in 10 volumes, beginning with Tobogganning on Parnassus (1911); the
final volume, The Melancholy Lute (1936), is Adams' selection from 30
years of his writing.
In 1938, Adams became one of the panel of experts on the radio show
"Information, Please." He achieved almost instant popularity for his
humour and erudition, and his name became something of a household
word in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.
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Swift was sweet on Stella;
Poe had his Lenore;
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[And here is a suggestion: Did you ever try dictating your stories or articles to the dictaphone for the first draft? I would be glad to
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Jenny kissed me in a dream;
So did Elsie, Lucy, Cora,
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The rich man has his motor-car,
His country and his town estate.
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"This war is a terrible thing," he said,
"With its countless numbers of needless dead;
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I've written things that aimed to teach
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I used to think that this environ-
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AD CYNTHIAM
Propertius: Book I, Elegy 2.
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While she I loved is being torn
From arms that held her many years,
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I
In summer when the days are hot
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