Word: poem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize, awarded for "The best poem on a subject or subjects annually to be chosen and announced by a Committee of the Department of English", will be given this year for a poem on "The Conquest...
This prize, which consists of $125 and a silver medal, is open only to undergraduates in the University. Every man submitting a poem should send it in under an assumed name accompanied by a sealed letter containing his real name, and superscribed with the assumed name...
...poems, as might be expected, show considerable range within the very real and living poetic spirit. "Rondeau" by Whitney Cromwell is a light but charming illustration of the escape into Paganism and pastoral pleasantness that has characterized a good deal of Harvard poetry. Mr. Cromwell has the vision and the command of musical technique without the full transformation into poetry that greater power over words themselves gives to a poem. He depends rather upon the delights of image and music than upon the more distinctly literary delights of diction. Just this quality of exciting power in phrase is strong...
...magic, and incidentally refreshes a form often too much like a metrical exercise in other hands, by a variation that gives it something of the fluent melody of terzarima. John Sherry Mangan, an enthusiastic an energetic experimenter, indicates something of the range of his work in two sharply contrasting poems: "Disoriented", sapphics in which a strictly classic treatment of form encloses a romantic elaboration and decoration of feeling; and "the Passing of Shaughnessy" which fuses the fantasy and conceit of pre-classical phrasing in English poetry, a music that has the sureness of old rhythm and the freedom...
...Amore Dei Tre Re," while based upon an Italian tragic poem, is not without its sublime beauty as set to music by Italo Montemezzi. It is justly considered, upon eminent authority, one of the finest products of modern Italian genius. Sem Benelli, one of Italy's foremost living playwrights, who wrote the poem, tells the story in a terse, swiftly moving drama coupled with music which vividly depicts events running fatefully toward an inevitable human cataclysm. While Montemezzi's score is not necessarily set to one particular melodious theme, nevertheless there is a succession of musical phrases that clothe...