Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...giving a repertoire of comic opera at the Boston Opera House, when he was interviewed in his dressing room by a CRIMSON reporter. Mr. Hooper will begin a week's performance of "Pinafore" on Monday, and between the acts, he will give again the dramatic presentation of this poem by a Harvard man, which he has already given over fifteen thousand times...
...extraordinary history of the poem has been a matter of conjecture and speculation ever since it was written in 1888. A well-known magazine conducted an extensive inquiry as to its author, and many men have claimed to have signed the initials "E. L. T." which appeared under the poem in the San Francisco Examiner. Mr. Hopper, while waiting his cue as "Colonel Popoff" in "The Chocolate Soldier", explained the true authorship to the CRIMSON reporter...
...storm and I had no news of my son. One hour before the performance, I heard word that my boy had passed the dangerous stage and was no longer to be feared for. In that hour, still sitting in the snow, I learned and studied the whole poem. The first evening, before that crowd of baseball men, little as I knew the poem, saw the finest rendering and the wildest applause I have ever received. Since then, I have given it every year, sometimes four or five times in a day, and I have never recaptured the supreme perfection...
...outstanding feature, I agree with the editors, is the Class Poem, 1924, by Oliver La Farge. I wonder whether the author has been reading Edwin Arlington Robinson's poems; certainly he has caught something of that master's pattern and manner, his directness, his vigor, his telling expressiveness. Naturally enough Mr. La Farge has been unable to maintain the exquisite balance of form and substance that makes Robinson's best poems so exactly right, so stark and simple and inevitable; yet when Mr. La Farge falters into prose, his idea gives sufficient impetus to rush the reader along. Without lapsing...
...function of the Advocate to express undergraduate ideas rather than to rival professional magazines. That is excuse enough for the very patronizing book review. It doesn't excuse, however, such unintelligible verse as the Sonnet. One always hesitates to confess missing the point of a poem obviously subtle for fear that like the folk in the fable one isn't worthy of his office if he fails to see the magic garment of the king; as for this sonnet I for one can make neither head nor tail of it. The other verse is adequate, nothing more...