Word: poem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series of Sanders Theatre concerts by--the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be given this evening at 8 o'clock. The last in the series will be given on April 28. Antonio Gerardi will be the only soloist in the program, which is as follows: Scotch Symphony, Mendelssohn Epic Poem Vassilenko Spanish Symphony, Lalo (For violin and orchestra.) Soloist, Antonio Gerardi...
...last day for receiving the manuscripts of competitors for the Bowdoin Prizes, offered for essays in English, and translations of English prose into Greek and Latin. The Bowdoin and Tappan Biennial Prizes for graduates, as well as the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize, offered this year for the best poem on the subject "America to England, 1620-1920," also close their competitions today. Essays for the Harvard Menorah Society Prize, all applications of candidates for Second Year Honors, and all theses of candidates for degrees with distinction in the Divisions of Ancient Languages, of Modern Languages, and of History, Government...
...Poetry is the bride of science" was the expression used by Edwin Markham, famous American poet and lecturer, in a recent interview for the CRIMSON. Mr. Markham is one of our leading poets today. His well-known poem, "The Man With the Hoe", has been hailed by many as the "battlecry of the next thousand years...
...William James, or a Josiah Royce. For these men deal largely in abstract expression and make no great effort to wrap their truth in the veil of beauty. The poet, however, must deal concretely with life and must always fold his truth in the veil of beauty. A poem contains truth, but it must contain more than mere truth, it must contain the splendor that is always upon the face of truth, it must contain the beauty that is the smile upon her countenance...
...Whitman challenges achievement. These are Whit manifestly not Chinese: but they are the stuff of poetry. Mr. R. C. Rogers in his "Sonnet" fingers an incoherent loveliness. The octave speaks of "chords that bind", an unfortunate ambiguity; the sestet hovers momentaly on the threshold of beauty; but the poem as a whole is tenuous and inarticulate. The "Winter Night's Spell" of Mr. Best plucks an old lute. We cannot help wishing there were more lines like these...