Word: poem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amorous Lion is based on a fable by La Fontaine which begins with this couplet: Love, love, when you invade our hearts, That moment common sense departs. Lichine patterned Francesca da Rimini after an episode in Dante, just as Tchaikovsky used Dante as the basis for the tone poem which is the ballet's music...
...Journal jumps to 1832, when Delacroix accompanied a French diplomatic mission to Morocco. His notes on the most vivid adventure of his life are clipped, wholly objective, brilliantly businesslike, set down only to help him remember details of what he saw. Some of them are like a modern Imagist poem or a sketch for a cinema continuity: "The entrance to the castle: The Guardsmen in the court, the faÇade, the lane between two walls. At the end, under a sort of vault, men seated, making a brown silhouette against...
...himself, over-looking California's Carmel Bay, as for his violent free-verse narratives and black-diamond lyrics in Tamar, Roan Stallion, The Women at Point Sur, Cawdor, et al. Jeffers' latest book, Such Counsels You Gave to Me, is predominantly in his prophetic vein. Its title-poem is a fast-moving narrative of a student's sick return from premedical school to the farm of his swinish father and mother. In an atmosphere supercharged with nervous prostration, sadism, fornication, drunkenness, adultery and lack of funds the young student, at his mother's instigation poisons...
...meet "Kitty, Copey, and Bliss" again in. "A Letter to Charles Townsend Copeland." To countless college men this poem will mean much; to the uninitiated, it may seem slightly nostalgic, and Mr. Hillyer, realizing the fact, chides himself for reminiscing too early in his life...
...Falla. And that evening the State Symphony Orchestra features Tschaikowsky's Second Symphony in another Sanders Theatre concert. The reaction to a first hearing of this group tends to be surprisingly pleasant, and an added point of interest this week will be the world premiere of "Epic Poem" by a Harvard graduate, Arthur Korb '30. Alexander Thiede will conduct...