Word: ode
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thirteenth ode of the second book of Horace will be the subject for translation for the Sargent Prize for 1924, it has just been announced. This prize of $100 is offered annually, in memory of John Osborne Sargent '30, for a metrical translation of one of Horace's lyrics...
...addressing you [Scotti] in dry, measured terms, the right way to handle this ceremony would be a pantomime with music, somewhat on the lines of Coq dOr. I ought to stand here going through the motions of making a speech, while lovely voices with lovely music sing an ode to Scotti and lovely women place a laurel wreath upon your 'brow. I throw this out as a suggestion for my successor at your 50-year jubilee...
Although the entire magazine is interesting, the verse impresses me as being better than the prose. Dudley Fitts Jr. contributes a joyful "Ode to Anne", "who demanded a piece in the jazzy measure." Mr. Fitts possesses feeling for metrical movement, and a blessed sense of the ridiculous. In "An Invective Against Poets", Merle Colby, with pleasant banter, calls upon the rhymers to tell where they have ever seen this beauty about which they sing in sweetened notes. Pertinex writes in his sonnets about "Inspiration"; Whitney Cromwell writes with a pleasant absence of gravity about "Reading an Obituary". George P. Ludlam...
Among the four prizes for dissertations due today is the Dante Prize of $100, offered for an essay on a prescribed subject on Dante. A second is the Sargent Prize of $100 for the best metrical translation of the sixteenth ode of the third book of Horace. The last two are the Bennett and Summer Prizes of $100 each for dissertations on American governmental policy and Universal Peace respectively...
...poetry; it has a catchy swing to it and contains a great deal of meaty matter. The religion of the chief Romantic poets is expressed here in a nutshell, surely much better than they themselves could ever have done. How much more concise it is, too, than the "Ode to a Grecian Urn." Such an opinion, no doubt, might be expressed by some readers quite frankly and honestly--so seriously, in fact, that a writer in the Atlantic Monthly feels forced to suggest that every student be prescribed a course in the "Appreciation of Literature" an English...