Word: poem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock--Sanders Theatre Exercises: Oration, Dwight Westley Chapman; Poem, Pierpont Stackpole; Ode, Ambrose Francis Keeley...
...clock--Phi Beta Kappa Oration and Poem, Sanders Theatre...
...afraid he cannot give an unequivocal answer. Mr. Robinson has written a beautiful poem, the best he has published since "Lancelot": but it is not entirely successful. Granted his, method of attack, it is necessary that his characters should be vivid and distinct, their personalities clearly differentiated. Unfortunately they are not. It is, of course, exceedingly difficult to describe two people, both violently in love with each other, and, without describing anything else about them, make them distinct; it is nevertheless a difficulty Mr. Robinson, if his poem was to be really successful, had to overcome. But this the very...
...intensity, a reality, which belongs to their story, not to them. Mr. Robinson's poem is moving, after all, for the same reason that the Twelfth century poem is moving because of the situation, not because Tristram and Isolt are two living people. The story has been retold, not remade...
This is the chief criticism to be held against it. In other respects "Tristram" is as I have said, a beautiful poem. There are many admirable details; one might call attention especially to the first appearance of Isolt, to the sense of tragedy which is present from the beginning, to the recurrent beat of waves which one hears continually throughout the poem, rolling "in a long wash of foam." It is free from those vested paradoxes and curious analogies which made so many pages of "Roman Barthalow" boring or even absurd! Mr. Robinson has here an anthem at all times...