Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert S. Fitzgerald '33, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, and David Perkins '51, Marquand Professor of English and American Literature, spoke about their friendships with Lowell. Perkins read from Lowell's poem, "For the Union Dead...
Hannibal and nearly defeated Russia in its "winter war" with Finland, is much misunderstood. Thought of as sterile, it .eems with microorganisms, from single-celled creatures to the ice worms immortalized in Robert Service's poem The Bal lad of Blasphemous Bill...
Housman's familiar poem tells of an athlete dying young...
...THIS POEM, WRITTEN by a Nicaraguan woman named Christian Santos de Praslin, recently appeared in a Managua newspaper. Its publication dramatizes the fact that revolution in Nicaragua, a country whose people have long been silent under the oppressive dictatorship of President Anastasio Somoza, is alive and flourishing. Freedom of the press is a relatively new development in this Central American nation of 2.5 million--opposition to the 42-year-old Somoza dynasty has only surfaced in print within the last year, in the wake of President Carter's proclamations about human rights...
...Valentine Poem for my Father...