Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Little, Brown and Co., of Boston, have just issued a dainty little book in commemoration of the centennial celebration of the Hasty Pudding Club. The volume contains the poem, written for the occasion by John T. Wheelwright '76, besides a number of illustrations. The latter were done by Washington Allston 1800, J. G. Curtis '66, and F. G. Attwood...
Born in 1799, Poushkin's first poem appeared in 1818. His literary career appears wonderful, when it is recalled that it was put an end to by a duel when he was thirty-seven years old, leaving him only nineteen years of literary life. In speaking of Poushkin as compared with his predecessors, the lecturer showed that in the eighteenth century poets had spoken of outside life; in the beginning of the present century they spoke of feelings and the inner life, yet with sterile aspirations into a world of dreams; Poushkin takes real life inasmuch as it is reflected...
...Kalypso," a poem by Joseph Trum bull Stickney, is an ambitious effort. It is, however, a failure, because sense is sacrificed to form. The cadences of the metre are exquisitely melodious. This extract is characteristic...
...other articles are: Neptunian, poem by P. H. Savage; The Creed of Romanticism: Keats, by R. G. Valentine; The Voice of the West Wind and As far as the East is from the West, by R. P. Utter...
...under the auspices of the Harvard C. L. S. Club, there were about 50 men present. R. L. Raymond L. S. was toastmaster and the following replied to various toasts: H. N. Stearns '99, W. L. Raymond '99 and H. Bancroft '98. E. K. Arnold L. S. read a poem composed by him for the occasion. Among those who spoke were Dean Briggs, Principal W. F. Bradbury, Hon. F. W. Dallinger and A. P. Stone. The dinner and reunion will be repeated annually...