Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...productions that the American National Theater and Academy plans to offer on Broadway this season. What is mostly the matter with the first of their plays is that it seldom seems like a play at all. It is merely an undynamic stage treatment of Jeffers' well-known dramatic poem on the House of Atreus. Though it chronicles the matricide of Clytemnestra, the murders of Agamemnon, Aegisthus and Cassandra, and more than dabbles in adultery and incest, it is too choked by imagery ever to ignite, is too highbustedly declamatory ever to terrify...
...Complete Poems is one of the most massive monuments to uninhibited formlessness in all literature.The quality marks the first poem on the first page, Sandburg's famous Chicago, published...
...student who lived on the Yard wrote an epic poem in 1822 that was later published in book form, becoming the fashionable Christmas present from one College graduate to another...
...elderly schoolmistress aunt introduced young Christopher to the beauties of English by reading to him from the Bible and The Pilgrim's Progress. At eleven he wrote his first play, a farce, at twelve his first poem, at 14 his first verse play, never produced. Young Fry did not do well in school, stood last in his class in English...
Many an Abner fan can still recite the poem with which Liddle Noodnik, the shivering infantile princeling of Lower Slobbovia, welcomed Senator Phogbound to his wretched kingdom...