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Word: poemes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Americans have had the dubious pleasure of meeting Thomas Stearns Eliot. To most of them, he is an expatriate, obscurely highbrow poet who wrote an unreadable poem called The Waste Land and fathered a catch-phrase about the world ending not with a bang but a whimper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: Mr. Eliot | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...wrote Masefield in his poem Biography (1912). Earlier in his life, when the formless urge to write had driven the young apprentice seaman from the sea he loved into a Yonkers, N.Y. carpet factory, Masefield had taken an even gloomier view. "It was most unlikely," he despaired, "that I should ever be able to write anything which anyone would print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Ships & Wonder | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...title poem of the collection, a compassionate allegory on the passing of Christ, an old, still proud but regretful Pontius Pilate tells a youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Ships & Wonder | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Feb. 20, 1950 | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

...province of the poem is the world. When the sun rises, it rises in the poem and when it sets darkness comes down and the poem is dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry Between Patients | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

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