Word: poem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Build us, O build the singing tower! listeners, uncertain whether the proposed structure was to be in the nature of a bird sanctuary or a bombproof dugout, asked him what the poem should be called. Said Poet Auslander: "Why, I haven't given it a name. You name it. Name it anything you want...
Died. Ernst Lissauer, German poet, on his 55th birthday; in Vienna. In 1914 Lissauer won world notice by his Wartime poem, Hymn of Hate Against England. Typical lines...
which made its first appearance in the Monthly? There also, as we learn from this Christmas Number, appeared Robinson's "Richard Cory", and two poems of John Hall Wheelock's included in his collected writings after a wide distribution through anthologies. The college friend to whom, as "Edwin", one of them was addressed is now acknowledged in a revised line, as Van Wyck Brooks, who is himself represented here in a spirited poem contributed to the "Monthly...
Horton, said in part: "Probably the most immediate way of discovering a poet's character is determining his sensibilities. Crane was so obsessed by the idea of making a poem the immediate experience that he turned language and syntax inside...
...great poet in English literature wrote an epic about the Troy story without seeing a line of Homer, or even knowing a line in translation. Yet this poet, called "father of English poetry," and to those who know him second only to Shakespeare in genius, left us an epic poem, a psychological novel done in Fourteenth Century terms, about several of the figures of the Trojan contest, a novel which is as full of the lusty breath of Old England as it is of the wind that swept across the Trojan plains...