Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book, written by an Italian of the sixteenth century, describing the story of the nativity is placed in a case beside Milton's poem "On the Morning of the Nativity" offering an interesting contrast in the literature of two nations and two centuries. Several reproductions from the Book of Hours of Joan 11, Queen of Navarre, offer further opportunity to study the fourteenth century style of illustrating the margins of books. The entire collection, most of which is reproductions of the work of the monks of the medieval times is interesting as well as beautiful, for the sketches and drawings...
...wrote a poem and made her first public speech...
...perfume. For all its vengeful malice the prophecy is certainly justified by so cloying a title as Trivial Breath, and further substantiated by much that follows the title. Mistress of euphuistic words, she is carried away by their glamor, too easily seduced from reason. An occasional poem "makes sense," but the sense sounds affected. Sorrow is, for instance, one of the emotions the poet rather fancies, and so she mentions it prettily, knowingly...
...poem or song," said Poet Lissauer, "expressed at that time the sentiment of virtually the entire German people. . . . My latest drama Jeptha's Wife, now playing in many theatres throughout the Republic voices the cry of unborn generations against future wars...
Have you read John Brown's Body yet? Crictics, call it has greatest American poem--but its as fascinating as a novel and just as easy to read. Nearly a hundred thousand people have discovered that here at last is a poem more thrilling than fiction--a poem of glamorous history, inspiring biography, tender, gallant romance...