Word: poem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came to believe he hated her. Accordingly, she did away with their unborn, illegitimate child. Later she heard that on his deathbed her lover had babbled a verse which began on a new note of hope. For 20 years Naomi wondered if there had been something in this unfinished poem to bring them together again. Playwright van Druten's answer comes from the mouth of a tuberculous young genius (Burgess Meredith) who visits the Jacklins' home to look at their pictures, rages against the folly of war, is stricken by one of his mysterious headaches. In a trance...
...with those of Spender and Auden, and to understand his poetry and in fact the aims of the group with which he is associated, the reader ought to turn to the manifesto, "A Hope for Poetry," published separately in England, but reprinted here together with the longish works, "Transitional Poem," "From Feathers to Iron," and "The Magnetic Mountain." The last is easily the best and it illustrates most nicely the sort of poetry which one may reasonably expect hereafter from Mr. Day Lewis. It is intellectual poetry, for its objectives are in the broadest sense "political." The poet has realized...
...poem by Dr. Theodore Spencer, instructor in English and a sonnet by Robert S. Hillyer '17, associate professor of English complete the balance of this issue...
...jury of competent literati could be panelled and polled on the question "What is the world's No. 1 Poem?" they might have some difficulty in arriving at a verdict. But certainly many a vote would be cast for the Divina Commedia of Dante. Unread in these days except by amateurs of literature or professional students, this Catholic epic is one of the boasted glories of Italy. Many a schoolboy has heard of Dante and his Beatrice, could even recognize a picture of the poet, but no one knows much about his actual life. Biographer Papini, adducing no factual...
...title of the book is taken from a poem by George Meredith in which he says, "We are betrayed by what is false within." The story is a continuation of the life history of Vridar and carries him through his early married days and hectic graduate work. Fisher best describes the internal conflict that beset Vridar when he says, "Two personalities within him--the poet, credulous, self-pitying, and lost to unattainable ideals, and the thinker, ruthless and sardonic--were becoming day by day more irreconcilable; and he was disintegrating in the struggle and knew...