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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great Raftery came upon Hilaria, a small Spanish woman, and he making a poem at the Galway dockside one sun down. The Welshman Daffyd Evans of Claregalway passed like another shadow between Raftery and the sun when Hilaria, who one night sang a song of the harlots of Cadiz, said she was of the Welshman's house. Being blind, Raftery knew more than she sang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland's Darling | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

...High Praise for La Farge's Poem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVOCATE PLAYS APE REVIEWER BELIEVES | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

Robert S. Hillyer '17, for several years an instructor in the English department at Harvard, has recently been awarded a prize of $100 by The Stratford Monthly for the best poem published in their magazine over a period of three months. His poem was called "The Halt in the Garden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English Instructor Wins Poetry Prize | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

...Stuart, Oliver Crom well, Robert E. Lee and other dramatic histories, has completed a libretto for an opera, based on the life of Robert Burns, eternal Scots laureate poet. This screed is now in the hands of composer Ernest Austin, an Englishman, known chiefly for his colossal organ tone-poem, Pilgrim's Progress, in twelve huge parts. In the new work, Austin plans to make use of many Scotch folk-tunes, including several of the familiar melodies now associated with Burns' popular lyrics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Operas | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

...eagle by day devoured his liver, which grew again during the night. Aeschylus, Greek tragic poet, wrote two dramas: 1) Prometheus Bound, telling this story, and 2) Prometheus Unbound, telling of the deliverance of the hero by Hercules after a reconciliation of the former with Zeus. Shelley, in his poem, changes the plot somewhat- makes Prometheus an even more adamantine hero who refuses to bow to Zeus, overthrows him, liberates mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Prometheus Unbound | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

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