Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more to offer when its column-tenants stick to their own experience. The poetry is generally original, in the spirit of experiment. Arthur Freeman metaphorizes Samuel Johnson's sensitive mind into a trailer-truck, a diesel, and a Pershing tank, in what is probably the volume's best poem. And Nathaniel Lamar's short verse on "A Dry Anthropologist at Sea" sent Lowell House contemporary culturists to chuckling in their...
...longer works, a trial of Proust and a poem on the death of Shelley, further attest to the new zest for vitality in form. They are impressive in both length and language, but that very length is discouraging to the harried scholar and the springtime esoteric. They were written by an engineer and a naval aviator...
...primary status in the home, the tea garden grew in importance. The new architects were the tea masters and the garden was carefully planned to symbolize each moment of the ceremony. Stepping stones, paved paths, sculptured water basins, the tranquil arrangements of trees and shrubs were tuned into a poem of peace. When a new warrior class emerged in the 17th century, the patterns had been set, the traditions well grounded. The military spirit of standardization served only to spread throughout the land what was already established...
...studies at Dartmouth, but graduated with a B.A. in 1955. He claims to have worked on The Dartmouth Quarterly, The Dart, and to have been president of the Dartmouth Cosmopolitan Club, where, he asserts, he "encouraged the exchange of ideas and knowledge among the races." His class poem was censored by college officials, towards many of whom he holds an undying hatred...
...ridiculed my professors in the poem," he says, "and I called one of them a bulfinch. . . . . I use birds. T.S. Eliot uses cats...