Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sere-Faced Farmers. Brooklyn-born Aaron Copland has no rural roots of his own (although his mother was raised in Peoria), but always knew he wanted to write an "American" opera. A dozen years ago, he read Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a prose poem about the hardscrabble South by James Agee, with photographs by Walker Evans. Copland found it inspiring, afterward showed it to his librettist, Poet Horace Everett,* who was struck by the photographs of serefaced farmers and their families. Everett transferred the setting from the South to Kansas and finished the libretto two years...
...goner), I was particularly delighted to see that my countrymen licked the Russians in the Nordic winter sports [TIME, March i]; but please do not call the Finnish national anthem "Our Lord" in English. Maamme means "Our Country," and is a translation from Johan Ludvig Runeberg's poem Vart Land . . . But I am too delighted to kick about it, and "Our Lord" may be just as good as Maamme when it comes to sing for the Slobos (Finnish slang word for the Russians), and may have a better influence...
...Oscure, a fat, cream-colored semiannual collection of writing that prints contributions in French, Italian and English. A writer who is known to be well-to-do may get very little for a fine long story. A poor poet may be paid beyond his wildest hopes for a brief poem...
Immediately following the Kimball story is the best of the magazine's three unexciting poems, Letter, by Walter Kaiser. His poem has a delicate sensuality reminiscent of MacLeish, and Kaiser handles his images well. The two other pieces, The Bridgegroom, by Winifred Hare and The Promised End, by David Chandler do not measure up to it. Chandler has a pretty turn of vision, but his poem is vacuous...
Perry was the last survivor of the University's famed literature-teaching triumvirate; the others were C. T. Copeland '82, former Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and George L. Kittredge '86, Gurney Professor of English. The three were linked in the famous poem "Kitty and Copey and Bliss" by Lawrence McKinney...