He published numerous poems in Poetry magazine, starting with 1919's "Mary, Mary My Love," and many of his lyrics appeared in the volume Dreams and Gibes. He discussed the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins in his essay "The Heuristic Value of Rhyme," but he is better known for ethnographic works like "Song Recitative in Paiute Mythology" and "The Life of a Nootka Indian." His longest ethnological work is a "study in method" which considers "time pers
He published numerous poems in Poetry magazine, starting with 1919's "Mary, Mary My Love," and many of his lyrics appeared in the volume Dreams and Gibes. He discussed the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins in his essay "The Heuristic Value of Rhyme," but he is better known for ethnographic works like "Song Recitative in Paiute Mythology" and "The Life of a Nootka Indian." His longest ethnological work is a "study in method" which considers "time perspective in aboriginal American culture," though this student of the Athabascan languages and head of Yale's anthropology department in the 1930s is best known for positing a link between a person's language and his worldview. FTP, name this thinker who along with Benjamin Whorf lends his name to a notable linguistic hypothesis.
He published numerous poems in Poetry magazine, starting with 1919's "Mary, Mary My Love," and many of his lyrics appeared in the volume Dreams and Gibes.