Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...books from which he financed his work and his modest home life. Last Christmas U. S. Christians raised $1,000 as a gift to the myopic, soft-faced little Japanese. Last week Miss Helen Faville Topping, Dr. Kagawa's devoted American amanuensis, was circulating among his friends a poem, To Tears, which he wrote to voice his feelings on the Chinese war. Excerpt...
...after Mr. Hirota s speech Emperor Hirohito published a poem: Peaceful is morning in the Shrine garden; World conditions, it is hoped, also will be peaceful...
This week the third Annual MacDowell Radio Festival boomed far beyond U. S. borders. Manhattan's New York Philharmonic-Symphony, under slope-shouldered Georges Enesco, broadcast MacDowell's symphonic poem Lancelot and Elaine over the Columbia network. Other commemorative broadcasts were heard over Columbia, NBC, Don Lee, and Canadian broadcasting systems, as well as 56 independent stations. Additional MacDowell broadcasts were heard from one station each in Ireland, Sweden, England, Australia, Poland. Norway, and from three stations in Germany, where MacDowell spent his most fruitful student years...
...been writing a thesis in college on the contribution of Greenwich Village to freedom in American literature and morals, and incidentally delving into her mother's racy past. The latter soon has company in her embarrassment, however, because the partner of her ecstatic adventure, who also wrote the poem describing it, is in the house on a reminiscent visit, now being an international literary agent...
...this is done, one will like George O'Donnell's poem "Evening to Morning" for its simple but convincing imagery; he will think Laughlin's own poetry too simple, too bare. Because of its vivid picture, like a penetrating flash, "Mannikin," by Francis Fergusson, has strong appeal. On the other hand, one used to conventional poetry will tire of playing anagrams with the poems of Cummings; he will laugh at Robert Fitzgerald's surrealism, which Laughlin explains as the principle of redefinition by incongruity...