Word: lyrical
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...best essay by a student in any department of the University, or by a graduate of not more than three years' standing, on a subject drawn from the life and work of Dante. The Sargent prize of $100 is for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace, and is open to undergraduates in Harvard and Radcliffe. The lyric for this year is the thirty-seventh ode of the first book...
Franz Grillparzer, the author of the play, has been called the "German Racine." He was born in Vienna in 1791 and died in the same city in 1872, acclaimed the national poet of Austria. In addition to his plays he wrote much lyric and epigrammatic poetry, and some prose tales Grillparzer's plays are nearly all tragedies, and the one comedy which he produced was signally unsuccessful...
...Travel Papers of Arminius" is a study of Naples with its dirt and noise and charm--an attempt to grasp the soul of the city, necessarily a partial description, but interesting. The number is rich in poetry. "To a Centaur" is a pleasing fancy. "Apollo Satyros" has genuine lyric grace and sweetness of melody. "Lines in Egypt" express in very excellent quatrains the feeling of the mystery and immutability of that land (qualities that remain though the greater part of the population is half Arabic.) "Amour Cache" is said to be a translation from the French poets: it is remarkably...
...prize of $100 is offered for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace. For 1906-07 the poem to be translated is the thirty-seventh ode of the first book of Horace. The competition is open to undergraduates of Harvard College and of Radcliffe College. Translations must be submitted...
...first number of the Advocate, which appeared yesterday, shows a very distinctive "Harvard" note. It bristles with local color; except for one short lyric it consists entirely of "Harvard" prose and verse. This is admirable, or at least it would be admirable were it not that the two most prominent articles--"The Philosophy of Horatio" and "A Fake Play"--distinctly overemphasize the aspect of College life that is least to our credit. Drunkennes and vice unquestionably exist but it is a pity to have the idea of them rubbed in through the columns of the undergraduate papers. Both stories...