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Word: poemes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peterson, Book III, by William Carlos Williams. The third volume of a jumpy but virile four-part poem by a New Jersey pediatrician who versifies between cases (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Apr. 3, 1950 | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

Peterson, Book III, by William Carlos Williams. The third volume of a jumpy but virile four-part poem by a New Jersey pediatrician who versifies between cases (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Mar. 27, 1950 | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...class; the Ivy orator, who delivers a humorous address of similar length; the odist, who writes two stanzas to the melody of "Fair Harvard"; the chorister, who sings the first verse of this song and leads the Class in the second verse, and the poet, who writes a short poem on any subject and who reads it during the exercises...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joint Boards Will Name '50 Class Day Speakers | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...every verse the old college try. Occasionally, as when he impersonates a pine tree singing its pitchy heart out to a pining rose, he can fall flat on his face. In the better works, wit gives weight to his wobbly lyricism. Viereck is at his typical best in a poem inspired by a newspaper headline: GLACIER ACCIDENT KILLS SKI PARTY; ONE BODY STILL MISSING. Impersonating the lost, icebound skier, he wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old College Try | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

Paterson, Book III, by William Carlos Williams. The third volume of a jumpy but virile four-part poem by a New Jersey pediatrician who versifies between cases (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Mar. 20, 1950 | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

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