Word: poem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many people trooped wide-eyed to the little Greenwich Village Theatre. It had long been known that this play of his was based on the magnificent theme of Ponce de Leon and his search for eternal youth. Many people went away a trifle disappointed. The Fountain is a beautiful poem and often a tiresome play...
...Viking Press has already published "Two Lives," a narrative poem in sonnets, by W. E. Leonard, A.M. '99, and will soon publish "The Origin of the Next War," by John Bakeless...
...long, pardon me this also. On such an occasion as this, but few words can be spoken, but those must be spoken, for they are the outbursts of grieved spirits and sad hearts. What remains for me to say is short and in the words of a well known poem...
Thus wrote Deems Taylor, critic-composer, of his symphonic poem, "Jurgen," which was given last week by the New York Symphony Society before an audience composed partly of admirers of Mr. Taylor, of modern music and of the Symphony Society, and partly of leering persons who, well knowing that the novel of James Branch Cabell is crisp with supposed "salaciousness," came in hope that the music would furnish sauce for the same salad. These last were disappointed. He has used the "Jurgen" legend merely as a pretext for the expression of certain emotions which might have been roused...
Such words as "blastoderm", "sindoc," "peris," "parasang," "sarcenet," "teazel," "nullah," "cantatrice," "barracan," "sistrum," writhed and hissed in her verses. One poem began with the nebular hypothesis and ended with prohibition; others cantered with a Eugene Fieldian humor; still others coldly glowed with the passion-weary detachment of a woman who has had her fill of life and its motley follies. Critic-Poet Louis Untermeyer chortled with elation. Poet William Rose Benét wrote a preface. The English Society of Authors and Playwrights (of which Thomas Hardy is President) asked Nathalia Crane to join them...