Word: poem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work consists entirely in reading several short or abridged works of a few of the great writers of the last century, among them Sudermann. Hebbel, and Scheffel, and incidentally the reading is nearly always lively and interesting. The dramatic poem "Na than der Weise" by Lessing provides a pleasant interlude between prose readings, and the year is agreeably rounded off with an anthology consisting of prose, poetic, and dramatic selections of major and minor German writers from Novalis to Nietache. A reading period completes the outline...
...marshals will lead the class parades on Class Day, while the treasurer cooperates with the class secretary in managing the class funds, being elected for a life term. The oration and poem are delivered in Sanders Theatre, while the Ivy oration is given in the Stadium...
...than in the echoing covers of a book, is drawing bigger crowds than once it did, and publishers, their anxious fingers on the public pulse, are beginning to prescribe this form of mild dynamite. Though alert Publisher Farrar finds Upsurge "impossible to describe," he admits that this manifesto-poem is "frankly a message...
...class oration and the class poem are delivered in Sanders Theatre, while the Ivy oration is given at the Stadium...
Sylvia Townsend Warner (Lolly Willowes, Mr. Fortune's Maggot) and Valentine Ackland, a new writer, protest "against the frame of mind, too common, which judges the poem by the poet." By lumping 109 poems together in Whether a Dove or Seagull without specifying which are by Poet Warner, which by Poet Ackland, they conspire to baffle lazy readers, force them to take or leave each verse on its own merits...