“TO IMMORTALS”
Descendants of Poets
UNIQUE DINNER PARTY (Rec. December 7, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 6. There was an Interesting gathering at the Cafe Royal when the descendants of famous poets dined and toasted the memory of the immortals on the occasion of the twenty-first birthday of - the Poetry Society. Those present included the direct descendants of Pope, Barham, Mrs. Hernans. Coleridge, Whatt, John Gay, Byron, Wordsworth, Sheridan and Milton. Lord Darling in a speech stated that it had been said that "those whom the Gods loved died young.” He believed that the general understanding of this was wrong. It really meant that those whom the gods loved remained young until they died.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 63, 8 December 1930, Page 11
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