Word: poem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pages, and better than anyone alive was she qualified to do so. When she was a pretty, dark-eyed girl at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome, Elsa Olivieri Sangiacomo dreamed of being a composer and an opera star. She learned composition from Respighi, wrote songs, a symphonic poem, a dance suite, a fairy tale opera. In 1919 Respighi married...
...Boers, he recalls that De Wet with 250 men, Smuts with 500, were handy fighters; "but, beyond that, got muddled." After the war he took a house for his family at Cape Town, next to Cecil Rhodes's, wintered there for seven years. Kipling's best-known poem, If,* which has been translated into 27 languages, was based on the character of Dr. Leander Starr Jameson, of Jameson Raid fame. Much of his patriotic verse (including Recessional) was given to newspapers free. "It does not much matter what people think of a man after his death...
...stocky, with blubber nose and lips, long gilt fingernails, he was not handsome, but his bursting energy made him popular with a fast young set who called him "Cricket" and "Spark." Drinking, drabbing, dicing and duelling filled his nights and days. On the side, he wrote a six-canto poem, Ruslan and Liudmila, many a dangerously political verse. The Tsar's police soon had him under surveillance, but were never able to prove that he was a member of any secret society. And in fact he never was. But his scurrilous verses offended the Tsar, who had him "transferred...
...most valuable items in the exhibit is a copy of Pushkin's "Gabrielide," as printed in the first definitive edition at Peterburg in 1922. A blasphemous poem, this work was not printed during the poet's lifetime; but the verses fell into the hands of the police and Pushkin was forced to deny authorship in order to avoid severe punishment...
...GOLDEN FLEECE OF CALIFORNIA-Edgar Lee Masters-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Short, stout narrative poem in which short, stout Poet Masters (Spoon River Anthology) compares the adventures of some Forty-niners to the quest of the Argonauts...