Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...journal of Longfellow, under the date of November 8. 1841 is the following entry. "This evening it has come into my mind to undertake a long and elaborate poem by the holy name of Christ, the theme of which would be the various aspects of Christendom in the Apostolic, Middle, and Modern Ages...
There is in existence an extremely rare poem written in 1718 by persons unknown, the flamboyant title of this opus is "A Satyrical Description of Commencement: Calculated to the meridian of Cambridge in New England." The picture that it gives is neither wholesome nor pretty, and it is to be hoped, that since it is termed "satyrical", it is not too faithful to fact...
...This famed poem has many another stanza. Each stanza makes the mountaineers out to be tougher and tougher. Together, they inspired a group of active young Americans and Britishers on duty in Berlin to found some years ago the Hardy Mountaineers' Club which is located between the Adlon Hotel and the Brandenburg Gate. Only Britishers or Americans are admitted to the Mountaineers' Club...
...judges, or even dangerous his task if he set out to contest the verdict of the judges. Combative originality or tame endorsement are his alternatives. But to the present reviewer it, is a positive pleasure to receive his September number of the "Harvard Advocate", replete with prize essay and poem, and graced by Dean Mayo's glance at "The Good Old Days", which is worthy of a prize--were such ever granted to University...
Then let him turn to Kunitz' poem, "John Harvard", which won the Lloyd McKim Garrison prize for 1926 and read in vigorous and musical verse of "the silent one" who sits enthroned with his back to University...