Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about the European flavor of his music. Once he even went so far as to say: "I want to be considered an American composer ... one of the boys." At 27, blue-eyed Wunderkind Foss takes a little easier view of the matter. "Now," says he, "I set a Sandburg poem to music or a story by Mark Twain without thinking of being an American...
...Sandburg poem, Prairie, was the inspiration for a cantata by Foss which won him a citation from the New York Music Critics Circle in 1944. The Mark Twain story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, became the basis for a one-act opera which was produced last week by Manhattan's new After Dinner Opera Co. It was just about the livest and jumpin'est opera yet turned out by a young composer...
Poet Martin Farquhar Tupper heard the shocking news and immediately produced a suitable poem: 0 dastard! Thus to strike that brow
...book falls into cute ness in at least two places, for one of which Mrs. Clarke feels required to apologize. The first is the title in which the author has taken the famous old poem concerning Boston "Where the Lowells speak only to Cabots, and the Cabots speak only to God," and substituted Loyolas for Lowells "with more than unsatisfactory results." The second occurs in the last paragraph of the book. It depicts the students and Father Feeney studying "The Doctors, Popes, and Saints of the Church with a longing for the day when a newsboy will be heard running...
There is a fragment of Robert Bly's Garrison Prize winning poem "The Indian Trail" printed under the title "Famine." It is the most finished piece in the current issue, and it is unfortunate that only a portion of the whole poem could appear. Mr. Bly's images and choice of words are always clear and appropriate; probably because he has chosen to write about something definite--a Sioux Massacre of 1862. Lyon Phelps' poem "Deutschland, Deutschland," which won honorable mention in the Garrison contest, strongly echoes Eliot in rhythm, symbols, and the use of the device of repeating fragments...