WHY POETS ARE BALD
Take it from John Masefleld, poet laureate, that rhymsters, instead of being long-haired, are "almost always bald," reports an American paper. "Poets whom you have met," he said at the Canterbury Cathedral festival of. music and drama, "are almost always bald when they get to about 40^ "They go bald trying to find rhymes in this language, which has. so few rhymes." ■■■■
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 27, 1 August 1933, Page 12
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66WHY POETS ARE BALD Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 27, 1 August 1933, Page 12
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