Word: poemes
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...Born the same year as Shakespeare (1564), Marlowe managed, in a short life, to write some fine lyric poetry ("Come live with me and be my love"), a long narrative poem (Hero and Leander), and four superb poetic dramas: Tamburlaine, Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta and Edward II. A militant atheist, in flight from arrest, he was killed at 29 during a drunken brawl in a riverside tavern near London, probably a political victim of Queen Elizabeth's Secret Service...
...poetry in this issue for the most part cannot compare with the prose. There is one good poem, however, Jean Valentine's love lyric, which because of its simplicity and sincerity effectively evokes the essence of a feeling. It is heartening to see one college poet who seems more interested in communicating something than in displaying a developing erudition, or in proving "maturity" by affecting a depression which is obviously not too deeply felt. Unfortunately, the abstract-term-so-that-they'll-know-I'm-intellectual school is heavily represented in this issue by Ernest Wight's "catatonic crocodile--bogged...
Selma Hopf Jillson, Adams ambles upstairs to his study where he broadcasts over Station KRNL ten minutes each morning-a word on the news or the weather, a passage from Scripture, occasionally a poem on a religious theme...
Most readers will have no difficulty reading Interlingua. The following excerpt is a translation by Alexander Gode of a poem, written in English by Merrill Moore, entitled "Dr. A.B.C.D. Left His Money to His College...
...execution. At a time when Harvard was beginning to outgrow its reputation as a hotbed of social snobbery, Pingree and Martin reacted absurdly against the changing times with verses showing a jejeune anti-semitism, and a rather pitiable outcry against the expanding attitude of the Admissions Department. The following poem, called "The Club-Man-About-Ttown" or "Suaviter In Modo" is representative of both the style and interest of the author...