Word: poem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before graduation, however, he left college to enlist in the Union army. He was stationed at Fort Independence where he wrote the class poem which he delivered at class day on a leave of absence. In the army Justice Holmes had a brilliant four years' career. He enlisted as a private and on his discharge in 1864 held the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel...
...tour through Scotland. There the mist wetted him, the food was bad, he met "a mahogany-faced old jackass who knew Burns." While he was tramping 30 miles a day in drenched clothes for the sake of his throat, certain sharp dolts in Edinburgh published a review of his poem Endynrion, called it "Cockney Poetry," advised him to go back "to plasters, pills and ointment boxes," prophesied that his bookseller would not a second time "venture £50 on anything he might write." These reviews were waiting for him when he returned to England to nurse his brother...
When Robert Browning published his famed poem, The Ring and the Book, few could at first reading understand it. Many considered this insulting until one critic pointed out that the poem was, for its very difficulty, the most magnificent compliment that had ever been paid to the intelligence of the British public...
Liszt: "Tasso": Lamento e triofono" Symphonic Poem...
...leave this title in its place. It didn't seem to suggest bootlegging, seduction, happiness or any of the few inevitables for which people are supposed to go to cinema. Leave it he did, however, and thereby displayed rare good sense. For the picture, based upon the poem, is a sincere and sensitive document. It depicts the long sea exile of the man who said: "Damn the United States." It is an illustration of one of the sagas of U. S. history, and it deserves a place in everyone's calendar...