Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then in a poem called "Pictures," he describes a Southern slave-gang...
...conclusion to the concert, Tschaikovsky's interminable and noisy "Manfred" Symphony is an anti-climax. This work is a series of four symphonic poems intended to illustrate Byron's dramatic poems intended to illustrate Byron's dramatic poem of the same name in three acts, begun in 1816. Those who are annoyed by the program of Berlioz's "Symphonic Fantastique" will find the combination of Byron's story and Tschaikovsky's music even less to their taste. The scherzo, which is mostly a representation of an Alpine waterfall, is very fine and strangely restless in mood, with admirable orchestral effects...
...recent Monday, however, the man of law delivered himself of a monologue that was at once scintillating and side-splitting, leaving his class a little puzzled till they found the reason, an anonymous poem left on the professor's desk just before the lecture...
...Henry Thoreau says," Grandma would begin, and Bertha's heart would sink; she figured (rightly most times) that it meant beans again. Bertha's favorite poem (secretly) was a parody of Emerson, reading By the rude bridge that arched the flood . . . Here once the bean-fed Thoreau stood. . . . She was envious rather than horrified by cannibal stories. Grandma Griswold's favorite horror story was about a deacon who wanted a Cooked Meal at night and, mind you, got up the next morning and wanted another...
MacLeish, on the Harvard staff this year for the first time, is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning poem "Conquistador," and of "New Found Land," "Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City," "Union Pacific,--a Ballet," "Panic," and the two radio plays "Fall of the City" and "Air Raid...