Word: poem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little Rollo and little Lucy." Perhaps Poet Lindsay never said quite the same thing before, but the blatant tone of voice is unmistakably his. He is a hell-raiser whose hair is never brushed; like his latest book, he is "aggressive, however sinful and full of pride." Two good poems appear-one an old-style Lindsay chantey, "The Virginians Are Coming Again," and "Twenty Years Ago," a rambling epistle to some anonymous and scornfully rejected patron. As usual, Poet Lindsay wanU these poems to be chanted, hopes that none of them will be set to music. In his recent sojourn...
...Woodworth '24, has been practicing steadily during the fall in anticipation of the winter season, and it has planned three special pieces for its opening program. The first will be Handel's Overture to the Ode for Saint Cecelia's Day, for strings and obees, based on the poem by Dryden. This will be followed by eight of Bach's dances from the suite in B. minor, for strings and flutes: Rondean, Sarabande Bource I, Bource II, Polonaise, Double, Minuet, and Radinaric. The concluding number on the program will be three movements from the Sympheny number...
...Caravan usually has something very good in it: this time it is a long poem by Phelps Putnam, The Daughters of the Sun, too long to quote, too good to quote from. Of the newcomers, William Rollins Jr.'s short novel, The Obelisk, is a painfully accurate account of adolescence's nightmares. Erskine Caldwell's Midsummer Passion is a Chekhovian incident of yokel bawdiness and embarrassment, e. e. cummings, noted licentiate of verse, has some fun with prose and prose ideas. Paul Green contributes a full-length play, Tread the Green Grass. There are eleven short stories...
...Benet in his 'John Brown's Body' set for himself a major task, accomplished it, and found recognition. His technical skill, his enthusiasm for his material, and his narrative power, are combined in a poem which has had phenomenal and merited success. Mr. Robinson's 'Tristran' and Mr. Benet's 'John Brown's Body' have brought to good poetry unprecedented popular acclaim in this country--a fact which should be significant in our literary history...
...program of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for this afternoon and tomorrow night at Symphony Hall, Serge Koussevitzky will offer one novel selection, Gruenberg's Symphony Poem, "Enchanted Isle" Gruenberg is a Russian, born in 1885, now living and working in New York, best known in American concert halls by a swirling setting of Vachel Lindsay's "Daniel Jazz...