Word: poem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Lowell's first poem, "Chicago," written at the age of nine, following a visit to that city in 1883, is shown in the original manuscript, pencilled in a small, childishly smudged journal...
...most important volumes shown in a first edition of "Russian and Lyudmila," a poem in six cantos, the first work issued by Pushkin, which he published himself at St. Petersburg...
...Queen was next to Alice now and looking down over her shoulder. "Good heavens, child!" she cried. "Whoever told you such a thing? It doesn't make any more sense than a poem in the Advocate...
Like many a Russian, Rachmaninoff had been fascinated by the weird poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Before the War he determined to work into a symphony Poe's tinkling sleigh bells, golden marriage bells, frightened alarm bells and bitter, iron-tongued dirge bells. As text he used Russian Poet Constantin Balmont's version of Poe's second most famous poem, completed the work...
...text that last week's audience heard was neither Poe's nor Balmont's. It was Fanny S. Copeland's English translation of a German translation of Balmont's Russian translation. Though the poem had grown worse in its travels, nobody seemed to care. The audience was thrilled by Rachmaninoff's ingenious sonorities, by the whispering pianissimi and loud thundering of the University of Pennsylvania chorus, by the shivering of parallel fifths in the high winds. Critics found The Bells an effective piece of scoring, mourned its unevenness. The audience was less reserved, applauded...