Word: poem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indicrous failure of that difficult form so losing all claim to poetic merit. Use of the classic device anacolnthon has made ungrammatical hash, unpalatable, wretched English, as witness the line. "Yet many, like myself, am slave." This is not to say that there are no good lines in the poem, nor that the treatment in places is not amazingly fine, but the whole is no better than its average, and the average entices the reader only with the charm of being interested in a slightly better than journalistic...
...Service to the State, Wilfrid was not a catch. More, a horrid rumor about him began to be bruited about the London clubs: threatened by a Moslem fanatic in Darfur, he had turned Moslem under pressure! Letting England down, what? Worst of all, the fellow had written a poem about it, had the impudence to publish it. The ensuing scandal ran his book up into a bestseller. Of course most decent men sent the scoundrel to Coventry. But Dinny stuck by him, even in the face of family disapproval. Luckily the fellow had enough grace to leave her, go back...
...annual winter dinner, which will be held on or about December 5 in recognition of the 151st year of the chapter. The program will consist of addresses, presentation of keys by President Lowell to newly elected members and a short program by the Glee Club. The annual poem will also be read at that time. Last year's meeting was the 150th anniversary of the society...
Juno and the Paycock, by Sean O'Casey. A rich and rowdy tragic poem about an ironically conceived old wastrel who watches his family sink into want and despair with the ineffectual moan: "The world is in a state of chassis...
...your edition of Oct. 3 mention is made of a request for a poem to inspire the schoolchildren. May I offer the following to be given to one of America's poets to use as a beginning for such a poem...