Mr. Noguchi on Difference Between East and West Mr. Yonejiro Noguchi, the famous Japanese poet, gave un interesting lecture on Monday, Oct. 21, at the T.A.T, reception given in his honour at the Park Hotel. As Dr, Wen Yuen-ning, the editor-in-chiot of the ion Hsia Monthly, "said in introducing the speaker, the Sky Terrace of the Park Hotel was hardly a suitable place in which to welcome a poet, for the Unkle of tea cups and the noises of a big city were not congruous with poetry; however, remembering that some of the greatest poets of the world had written and some of the world's finest poetly had been written amidst the ugliest of surroundings, Dr. Wen added that perhaps the Park Hotel was not unsuitable after all.
Mr. Nogueh! was born in Alch{ Prefecture, Japan, He studied in Callfornia' and became a pupil Joaquin Miller, the American poet. /Subsequently, he published 18 volumes of poetry in English and additional works in Japanese, He is professor tot English literature at Keio Univer sity, from which place he graduated, and' is now on his way to India give a series of lectures on Japanese Mterature at Visva-Bharati College, Mr. Noguchi ts perhaps better quallfed than anyone else to speak on the subject of Japanese poetry. to an English-speaking audience, for, he began his career as a poet by writing English poems, not Japanese, his books of 1d. Unseer "Pilgrimage" It was only some ten years ago that he began writing verse in his native tongue.
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