Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the last ten years Mr. Hillyer has written several notable poetical works. In 1917 he published "Sonnets and other Lyrics", which was the first book of original verse published by the Harvard University Press. "The Five Books of Youth," and "Alchemy--A Symphonic Poem", were finished in 1920, and three years later his two volumes "The Hills Give Promise", and "The Coming Forth by Day", were published. Mr. Hillyer's last work was completed last year and entitled "The Halt in the Garden...
Gilbert Symphonic Piece Strauss "Don Juan", Tone-poem Respighi: Symphonic Poem, "Pini Di Roma...
...University, with four poems and nine stories found available for the Anthology, heads the list of colleges. Next comes Mt. Holyoke with two stories and four poems. Minnesota and Wisconsin, with two stories each come next. Dartmouth has furnished six poems and Columbia five with one story. The Radcliffe Bay Tree has provided one poem and one story. The other colleges whose work will be printed are: Amherst, Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Goucher, Middlebury, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley...
Arturo Toscanini, famed Italian now functioning as guest leader of the New York Philharmonic, conducted his third program in Carnegie Hall, honored Vivaldi, Beethoven, De Sabata, and Stravinsky with his reading of their works. De Sabata, an Italian "modern," was represented by "Gethsemane," a symphonic poem, vague, impressionistic-night in a lonely garden, a stern voice breaking through the darkness to speak the awful law of redemption through renunciation; dawn, stillness, prayer; carefully explained but shallow, unoriginal music for which even the philanthropic genius of a Toscanini could not achieve distinction. But a great public on its knees...
There is, to be sure, one "Ballade of the South Seas" which in its initial stanzas gives every promise of being a chaming and polished poem, and whose envoi turns out to be the epitome of quintessential vulgarity. It is as though the author had originally written the poem for his own pleasure and had later altered it to suit the demands of a comie supplement. Why the Lampoon editors should insists that verses be "humorous" rather than possible and well-turned is more than we can understand...