Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this issue is not all obscure. John Hollander's songs, sung by a picaresque hero called Dick Dongworth, are the most notable contribution. Hollander combines a slight air of humor and intense irony to good effect. He varies his rhyme scheme to fit the special tone of each poem, and his rhythm fails only at one point in the last song. Less monumental, but equally effective, is "In Rainwoods," written by an anonymous poet, blasphemously dubbed Sam Hall. The rainwoods contain soft red leopards and a girl and a great sense of wonder...
...captures both the rise and fall of the swells and their dark, light-drowing power. There is a strong suggestion of death wish and a good bit of alliteration. One line--"While limbs loll out long like a lover"--seems to have little meaning within the context of the poem, but the image is satisfying, and it trips off the tongue nicely. Fred Seidel's poem about death is filled with images. It is not as obscure as it might have been, but it is fairly good anyway. Robert Layzer contributes half of a good poem...
...Rebellion Tree stood for open defiance during the nineteenth Century. The spirit it engendered in the undergraduate becomes clear in an excerpt from a poem entitled "The Rebellion," written by a student in memory of the Riot of 1819: "But Oh! the Sophs! their frantic yells Were louder far than lecture bells They form'd a ring about the Tree, And to this solemn oath agree: 'By This Almighty Plant, we swear. 'We will not flinch a single hair 'Until the laws of College rot, 'And government is sent...
...spiritually impotent because we have cut ourselves off from the poem," Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of English and Rhetoric, declared in the March Atlantic Monthly...
...poet's celebrated works, from the earliest surviving poem, a verse translation of Claudian's "Prosperine," to his last work, "The Death of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale," are in this collection, Jackson said. Only the manuscript of "Locksley Hall," now owned by Yale, is missing...