Word: poem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Someone has called Beardsley "an inspired grasshopper." It is a poor metaphor. Few grasshoppers prefer candles to the sun. Very thin, very long-handed, long-nosed, always a flower in his buttonhole, he infuriated William Morris by his somewhat ambiguous drawings for an Arthurian poem. Other people liked him better; his drawings in the Yellow Book caused critical thunderstorms. Esthetes strove to imitate in prose and verse the Beardsley gift for wistful evilness. His friends denied that he was obscene; in that denial they took from him his character and his curse. There could be nothing dirtier than certain prints...
Browning once wrote a poem concerning "a grammarian's funeral; a Browning is needed on the Burlington. An erudite Vice President inscribed a circular containing the words, " . . . a tremendous area in which "IS" produced two thirds of the oats and corn . . . ", and a meticulous traffic, manager neatly omitted the "IS" and inserted "ARE". The disputants consulted the University of Chicago, then Northwestern, then Harvard, Princeton and Yale. After the weighty decisions were received and considered, the matter was settled by the toss of a coin and IS was the result. Not even five great institutions of learning can convince...
...second pair of concerts the New York Philharmonic gave the first U. S. performance of George Templeton Strong's* Vie d'Artiste, a symphonic poem for violin and orchestra. Josef Szigeti was the soloist, drew ripe measure of grave, cool beauty to paint the mood of a creator, peaceful as a flower at first, but bruised and beaten by a mocking Success back into a wiser contentment. Critics found it pleasant, a little sentimental. They commended Conductor Willem Mengelberg for introducing it, and for giving Bloch's Israel Symphony, that strong, honest portrayal of the suffering...
...Manhattan, a Bach choral prelude and Brahms's C minor symphony issued in rapturous perfection from the gloom of old Carnegie Hall. Even a tone poem about a Prophet, in phrases and measures twisted to tortuous futurity by one Ernest Pingoud, 26-year-old Swiss with a Russian upbringing, became articulate; for in the gloom was hidden the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski. But the audience was slightly disconcerted during this notable visit. Desiring to "intensify the mystery and eloquence and beauty of the music" Conductor Stokowski had made his men invisible, with only steady little stars on their...
...core of his poem, he took the story of "Der Arme Heinrich" a tale led by Hartmann von der Ane, a German nidnnesinger of the twelfth century. It the elaboration of this story says Longfellow. "I have tried to show. . ., among other things, that through the darkness and corruption of the Middle As ran a bright, deep stream of Faith, strong enough for all the exigencies of his and death...