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Word: poemes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richard Wilbur, whose "Things of the World" won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize, will deliver the Phi Beta Kappa Poem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBK Will Gather For Speeches by Lyons and Wilbur | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

Kier Nash's poem is exceptional only in that he is willing to make slight concessions to the grand old tradition of rhyme which has so long embellished English poetry. The other four poets are above this sort of thing...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: The Advocate | 6/4/1957 | See Source »

Aging freshman David Breasted writes a poem which might have been superb, but wasn't. The absence of form accentuates the exhaustion which characterizes the poem as well as its subject matter. Unfortunately, the weary seldom write brilliantly...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: The Advocate | 6/4/1957 | See Source »

Pegasus Robert Johnston's poem about corpses gives the reader a sense of evening calm over 21 South Street. Perhaps what the Advocate needs is a good exciting whodunit for next fall's registration issue...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: The Advocate | 6/4/1957 | See Source »

Trees Behind the Church. The letters show Joyce as a man drunk on language. He had the gift of tongues (just for fun, he dashed off translations of a poem by James Stephens in German, Latin, Norwegian, Italian and French). His view of himself was generally rueful, whether he was commenting on his physical "cowardice" or remarking on his "steely cheerfulness in what does not afflict me personally." He read hugely, but at times with so little discrimination that his head felt full of "pebbles and rubbish and broken matches and lots of glass picked up 'most everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stephen Bloom | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

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