Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...graduates a desire for volunteer displays of oratory, which was the real cause of the festival now known as Class Day. The class of 1760 has the honor of starting the custom, although the list of annual orators does not begin until 1776. Ten years later, in 1786. a poem was added as a regular part of the Class Day exercises...
...Beasts" is a somewhat vague sonnet with more sound than meaning. "Meditation" by Eugene Warner is a short poem that just fills out page seven...
...published "The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border," a collection of ballads and traditions from which he drew much of the material for his later works. His first great poem, "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," was published in 1805. This was very successful and at once raised Scott to prominence. For the next two years he was at work in writing a life of Dryden and in publishing an edition of his works. In 1808 appeared "Marmion." In this Scott is at his best, he has a truly romantic subject, and his wonderful faculty of invention is at its height...
Liszt's Symphonic Poems were composed differently from the general fashion consisting, as Wagner said "of the subject, the development, and the further development." "Les Preludes," played last night, is the third in number and was written about 1845. Like all of his poems it has a poetic basis - on a passage in Lamartine's "Meditations Poetiques." It is divided into six sections or movements, each for various instruments. The Andante, written for strings and flutes, has the theme, and the other movements are an Andante for trombones and basses, Allegro for violins and 'cellos, an Allegretto pastorale for harp...
...filled with engravings of portraits of many notable persons of her time. Josephine Lazarus has given us a sympathetic sketch of "Margaret Fuller" outlining the chief events of her life, closing with a graphic description of her tragic death and an analysis of her character. A pretty little dialect poem is "I's Never Feared for my Ould Man." "Benefits Forgot" is continued. "The Heart of the Tale" is a melodious bit of poetry showing thoughtfullness and feeling. There are a few other short poems...