Word: poem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these the long poems are by far the best--in fact head and shoulders above the many sonnets telling of a doubting love, or the lyrics with their transient themes and shifting thought. For the poem "Ann Garner" really does show the "promise" attributed to Agee by Messrs. Benet and MacLeish. In it is a genuine and deep feeling for the story the poet is telling--the story of a lonely woman whose only child was dead at birth. Drawing on his own experience in the Cumberland Mountains, Agee makes a living thing of the feel of the earth...
...life of Ann Garner from the time when her interest in a worldly existence is blotted out by the loss of her child. In describing them Agee is at his best. The verse moves smoothly and well, with no interruption for the rather fine thought of the poem. Here, as in the other long poem, "Epithalamium," Agee's curiously transposed and unusually-used-adjectives do not take away from the lines their meaning. For, in what Mr. MacLeish's introduction describes as "a vocabulary at once personal to the poet and appropriate to the intention", Agee has formed the habit...
James B. Munn '12, professor of English, and chairman of the Department of English, will read a poem written especially for the occasion by Robert S. Hillyer '17, associate professor of English, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry last year...
Conductor Rodzinski's début concert was the loudest if not the loveliest that New Yorkers have heard this season. He swayed excitedly from side to side, made fierce faces at the players to bring out every last theatric effect. Scriabin's Divine Poem, stunningly bombastic, compelled an ovation for the hard-working Clevelander. But Rodzinski had still louder music: two entr'actes from Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk...
...service in memory of Dean Briggs will be held in the Memorial Church on Tuesday, December 11, at 4.30 o'clock. Robert S. Hillyer, associate professor of English, has written a poem which will be read at the service by James B. Munn, professor of English...