Word: poem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paradise Boat, Characteristics of the Poem," Professor Peterkin, Sever...
...rest of the issue contains poetry, prose, book and theatre reviews. The poetry shows technical skill and sounds very well, but would it be too much to ask that the Advocate print some time, just for fun, a poem which could be understood by the ordinary lay mind after a single reading...
...Hollis Street Theatre next Monday by presenting Gounod's "Faust," the same production that the students of the University will hear on the specially designated "Harvard Night" on March 23, it will be a rejuvenated "Faust" with several points of novelty. The production aims throughout to represent Goethe's poem as faithfully as Gounod's music. To this end the character of Mephistopheles has been so changed as to make him the embodiment of the negative forces of life rather than the conventional stage devil with incredible horns and tail. The apparent incongruity in the former double role of Faust...
Browning's poem, "Pauline", his first published work, is the most valuable book on exhibition. This particular copy was given by Browning to Sarah Horn Adams, the author of "Nearer My God To Thee" and who was also the Pauline of the poem. A collection of "Bells and Pomegranates" in the eight original parts which was presented to his uncle, Ruben Browning, makes a valuable addition to the collection. There are also corrected proof sheets of this work, showing corrections made by Browning himself...
...collection, however, is the autographed manuscript of "The Charge of the Light Brigade," probably his best known poem. This was first published in the newspapers. The soldiers in Crimea, seeing the poem, sent a request to the government that copies of "The Charge of the Light Brigade" be sent to all of them in Crimea. The worn, crumpled copy in the exhibition belonged to a soldier...