Word: poem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poetry is represented in this issue by a competent sonnet of Sherman Conrad's, and then by a thing called "Opening of A Long Poem (Maybe)" by James Agee. Over this entry the well laid schemes of apportionment went to pieces, and any editor might well wonder what to do with the remainder of a magazine which had decided to risk publication of Mr. Agee's opus. The poem is frankly an imitation--I will not say a copy--of Byron's "Don Juan", using the same verse form and employing the same tricks and devices...
...Lloyd McKin Garrison Prize of $175 has been divided between Stanislas Pascal Franchot '32, of Boston, for his poem "Prelude to the Twilight of the West" and James Rufus Agee '32, of Rockland, Maine, for his group of poems. Both men will get silver medals. Honorable mention goes to C. L. Sultzberger '34, R. M. Hatch '33, and Keith Martin...
...first volume's title poem outlines Poet Dillon's general technique, general theme...
...here on June 11, 1905, and it was from this show he got most of his wide publicity." And Pickett died in Kay County, Okla., though the ranch covers a part of Noble and Kay Counties. Today I received a picture of Bill Pickett and the following poem written by Col. Zack T. Miller all included in a leather bound covering: OLD BILL IS DEAD Old Bill has died and gone away, Over the "Great Divide." Gone to a place where the preachers say Both saint and sinner will abide. If they "check his brand" like I think they will...
...exhibition contains a number of his works, including some unusual pamphlets and a copy of "The Criterion: A Quarterly Review" published in London in 1922, in which his celebrated poem "The Waste Land" appears for the first time. Particularly interesting are several school books once owned by Eliot, with his signature, including Boswell's "A Journey to the Hebrides" and a volume of Scandinavian mythology...