Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Considering the few pages which the editors of the Advocate allow themselves in each issue, it is unusual to find that they have devoted the first half of the latest number to the translation of a Chinese poem. It is baffling, furthermore, to figure out why they printed the poem at all when it has already appeared in the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies and will receive further publicity in two literary reviews. In past years, the Advocate has tried, in a limited space, to bring interesting and rarely-published writing before the public. In this case, however, good intentions...
...poem, titled Rhyme Prose on Literature by Wen Fu and translated by Achilles Fang, describes the feelings of a poet when he creates. In spite of the loss of rhyme, and perhaps meaning as well, through translation, the imagery is fresh and at times brilliant. Mr. Fu has made a careful, thorough exploration of his subject and has conveyed the experiences of his art in a clear, unfaltering manner...
...twinges of discomfort. As a story, it is clean and straight. Those who admire craftsmanship will be right in calling it a masterpiece. Its meaning? Critics will find as many as there are critical cults. But The Old Man is only better Hemingway, not fundamentally different. It is a poem of action, praising a brave man, a magnificent fish and the sea, with perhaps a new underlying reverence for the Creator of such wonders...
...that delegates heard representative new music from each nation, if not always the best music newly written. Critics felt the difference, deplored the festival's lack of a "genius," but pronounced Frenchman Jean Martinon's String Quartet, Op. 43 first-rate, Englishman Humphrey Searle's Poem for 22 Strings pretty good. Festival shocker: Le Soleil des Eaux, a surrealistic, twelve-tone composition for soprano, tenor, bass and orchestra by the current bad boy of French music, Pierre Boulez, 27. It puzzled even the radicals. One of the more conservative was reminded of the story...
...rare occasions-"not above three days in a year," he said-Gray fell into what he guardedly called "a certain disposition of mind." At. such times, he wrote poems. Over a period of ten years, he completed six of them, and Walpole, with whom he was again on friendly terms, secretly sent one of them to a publisher, who decided to publish it. Gray was horrified. How, he asked, could he "escape the Honour they would inflict upon me?" But he faced up to it. Elegy in a Country Churchyard (which probably contains more familiar phrases than any other poem...