Word: poem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edward B. Hill of the Harvard music faculty will be the feature of the Symphony Hall programs this Friday and Saturday. The Harvard-Radcliffe chorus will assist in this poem which was written particularly for the fiftieth anniversary of the orchestra...
From London, John Masefield, British poet laureate, spoke by radio to the U. S., recited his poem "Sea Fever." Prelude to his speech: "I speak in a place haunted by ... the memories of poets. . . . However, we are not conscious of those ghosts at the present time. We are only conscious of two young friends who keep telling me that if I sneeze, 50,000 people will be immediately deafened. I shall try not to sneeze." (He did not sneeze...
Even the title of Robinson's latest poem has a tragic irony. Nightingale is the name of the piece's villain; the glory of the Nightingales comes to a sad end. As the poem opens, middleaged, destitute, half-starved Malory, onetime bacteriologist, now a tramp, is walking country roads towards the town of Sharon, on his way to an act he thinks Fate requires of him. In his pocket is the infinite wealth of a revolver. He is going to kill Nightingale, once his best friend, his onetime rival in love, his onetime benefactor, then his ruin...
Birthday. Nathalia Crane of Brooklyn, who at 10 gained fame with her book of poems The Janitor's Boy. Age: 17. Date: Aug. 11. Celebration: Telling about her new poem Pocahontas, in which eight modern poets chase the Communists from the U. S., make Pocahontas queen...
...speeches on Boston's history, praised the Puritan fathers. Aged Robert Grant, Boston's famed author-judge (The Confessions of a Frivolous Girl, Yankee Doodle, The Knave of Hearts, The Bishop's Granddaughter; member of Governor Fuller's advisory committee on the Sacco-Vanzetti case in 1927) read a poem. Herewith the last stanza...