Louis Kent
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In a review by Louise Townsend NichollLouise Townsend Nicholl
Louise Townsend Nicholl was an American poet, and editor.-Life:She graduated from Smith College, where she studied with Adelaide Crapsey....
, Kent received the following praise:
so far as I know, Louis Kent has never published another book of poems - which is too bad. Robert HillyerRobert HillyerRobert Silliman Hillyer was an American poet.-Life:He was born in East Orange, New Jersey. He attended Kent School in Kent, Connecticut and graduated from Harvard in 1917, after which he went to France and volunteered with the S.S.U. 60 of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps serving the Allied...
, who was much interested in his work, brought him to me at Dutton's & I agreed on his "true lyrical genius", as Robert said. I had one few hours meeting with him & lunch - a tall young man, incisive & sincere & eager. Perhaps we will see his name again on a book someday. Louise Townsend Nicholl, 1956