Word: poem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poems, especially great poems, are frequently written in great emotion for special occasions. This poem was written in great emotion...
Among the fingerpainters at last week's exhibition were Composer Deems Taylor's six-year-old daughter Joan, and six-year-old Tanya Bogoslovsky, daughter of Educator Boris Bogoslovsky. Artist Bogoslovsky's creation, a thing like a jungle of twisted vines, inspired her to her first poem, which was attached to the picture: There is a man lost in the dark woods. I keep finding him and finding him But he goes again behind the dark trees- Again and again...
...France, post-War vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., he was titled by Newton Diehl Baker "the greatest expert in America on the subject of telegraphic and telephonic communications." In 1915 he completed the first U. S. transcontinental telephone service, provoking Dr. John Huston Finley's poem...
...partly because Random House books look well on any shelves, partly because Editors Carl Van Doren and Joseph Wood Krutch were "terribly enthusiastic," the Literary Guild has chosen Troilus & Cressida as its December book. Keeping Chaucer's conversational seven-line stanza, adding and subtracting nothing, so that the poem is line for line, stanza for stanza, though not word for word as Chaucer wrote it, Professor Krapp is as poetic as professorially possible. Chaucer was not always perfectly smooth; neither is Professor Krapp. Although some will still rather read Chaucer than any "translation" of him, a great many present...
MASEFIELD (John) A Poem and Two Plays. Mint...