Word: poem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born in 1857, knighted in 1904, received the Order of Merit in 1911 and the degree of Doctor of Music from Yale in 1905. He wrote a fine "Coronation Ode" on the occasion of the accession of Edward VII, and two huge oratorios, The Dream of Gerontius, after a poem by Cardinal Newman, and The Apostles. His symphonies and concertos are very popular with both English and U. S. conductors...
...final poem "Love and the Garlands" he uses, with workmanship nearly perfect, the trochaic pentameter of Browning's "One Word More" in a sestina. Indeed his feeling for rhythm is so keen and so subtile that some of his verses will not read themselves to an ear less delicately trained than his own; and his work is in a way analogous to the music of certain modern composers. Combined with his generous freedom in trisyllabic feet is the liberty that he takes with orthodox forms in substituting pauses for syllables and in docking the first feet of pentameters. To those...
...yesterday, when newspapers were unfolded at Cambridge breakfast tables, the skeleton burst from its closet with a hideous crash. The cognoscenti were competed to realize that the original of the poem was calmly claimed by a village in far away England St. Mary Cray, in Kept, which the poet carelessly visited without making his purpose clear...
Seventy poets followed the Symbolist in rotation. Whenever one attempted to spout his third poem he was immediately howled down. In this way it was possible to end the meeting in a single "Evening...
...horn Concerto was written for his father, the greatest horn player of his time, who did not like it. His first important work was the tone-poem, Aus Italien, which contains a characteristic Strauss mood: "Melancholy Feelings While Basking in the Sunniest Present." Then followed his famous series of dazzling orchestral tales, path-breaking in form and harmony: Macbeth (1890), Don Juan (1888), Death and Transfiguration (1889), Till Eulenspiegels Merry Pranks (1895), Thus Spake Zarathustra (1896) and Don Quixote (1898) with its notorious sheep-bleating episode...