Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plenty of the breeziness of the Middle West, he shows you his books with pride and talks of his work with high seriousness. I just managed to catch hold of his coattails and detain him for a few moments. This respite was doubtless between the writing of a syndicate poem and the sending out of a radio broadcast. He then took me for a ride in the Ford car which was presented to him by the great manufacturer himself. Riding with Eddie Guest in Detroit is almost like walking down Fifth Avenue with Douglas Fairbanks...
...MacKaye's poem is finely imagined, and movingly though not quite impeccably phrased. The nursery drama sketched by Mr. Hale has charm and symbolic value. The most vivid prose in the number is Mr. Swayze's half-page about "the gods behind the gods...
...Dial has awarded its $2,000 prize for the best poem of 1922 to an opus entitled The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot. Burton Rascoe, of The New York Tribune, hails it as incomparably great. Edmund Wilson, Jr., of Vanity Fair, is no less enthusiastic in praise of it. So is J. Middleton Murry, British critic...
Discussing the more prominent of Dante's works, the lecturer first pointed out that after six hundred years his "Divine Comedy" still is considered the world's greatest poem. Dante has, further, gained the title of "spokesman of the Middle Ages", a period often misjudged by later times, but which made great contributions to the future in science, in government, and in art--"a great age departed, almost forgotten, but still living in us, influencing what we do, what we think, and what we feel". Moreover, Dante was a "creator of beauty, a leader in the realm of the spirit...
...Society. All were editors of the "Advocate" but one, and he was a frequent contributor. Several were officers in one or other of the organizations. Is it likely that better poets were consciously omitted? when it took fifteen months to bring the volume to its final form, when every poem published by undergraduates since 1916 was examined, and when at least twelve poets and not fewer than two hundred poems were seriously considered...