Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poem is a long one, containing some 4600 lines of that admirably moulded blank verse which one expects of him. As in "Merlin" and "Lancelot", the chief emphasis is put upon the passionate and destructive love that burns his characters to ashes; and he has made every effort to make that love as real to his twentieth century readers as it was to Tristram and Isolt themselves. He has somewhat altered the story to do so. For example, the love drink is not one mentioned; Tristram and Isolt are consumed by a passion which it needs no magical agency...
...such changes as these are only superficial; they make the poem structurally more successful and plot more clear--they do not mark the fundamental difference between Mr. Robinson and his predecessors. Both Malory and the earlier writers tell the story in terms of action; Mr. Robinson in terms of reflection. What they describe, he attempts to explain. In a word, his characters are self-conscious, fully aware of their situation and continually discussing it (the greater part of the poem consists of conversation) they are not the "possessed" lovers, consumed by a passion they do not attempt to understand...
...first number on this evening's program will be Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 in D major, Opus 36. This will be followed by the initial presentation of the Poem for Orchestra by Hill. "Pacific 231", an Orchestral Movement by Honegger, will be the next selection...
...written a symphonic poem which sounds so admirably like a locomotive as famed Arthur Honegger, head of that ultraModern group of Parisian composers, Les Six. But last week Composer Honegger was struck by the thought that his "train symphony," Pacific 231, only interprets a locomotive from the standpoint of pedestrians or others not in the cab. "How," asked Arthur Honegger excitedly of himself, "how does a locomotive sound to the engineer...
...Author of this encyclopedic work, whereof the wit is second only to the scholarly wealth, is Editor of House and Garden, the sedentary sound of which title he dispels forever with a romantic introductory prose-poem: a series of fadeouts from the motor-clogged highways of today to the first faint trails through the trader's forest...