Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painters-though they cannot agree on what his religion was. In 1761, when he was only four, Blake startled his parents with the announcement that he had seen the Godhead at his window. In 1827, when he was near death, he flabbergasted his friends with a 100-page philosophical poem called Jerusalem, which he not only illustrated but engraved and printed himself. His contemporaries called it "perfectly...
Blake tried and failed to sell the only copy of the poem which he published in color. Last week the William Blake Trust put 500 facsimile color reproductions of Jerusalem on sale, at $95 a copy. Buyers would find the text hot & heavy going, the illustrations magnificent...
...made quite a splash on TV last year in NBC's Broadway Open House (TIME, July 9). With her sensational looks, Dagmar didn't even have to try very hard: she merely sat on a high stool, breathed deeply, and occasionally malapropped her way through a poem or a short play. Last week, looking bigger and blonder than ever, after months of "trying to find the right kind of format," Dagmar was back on TV with her own show, Dagmar's Canteen...
Four songs by Yehudi Wyner, 1G, received the most appreciative applause of the evening. Although Brownie, based on a poem by A. A. Milne, was described as being in a "lighter vein," it is in fact a graphic representation of a small child's momentary terror of the unknown. The composer tellingly recreates the image of the poem--a child's imaginary view of the sinister "Brownie," dispelled by the interjection of a companion--by a parallel tension and relaxation of the musical line. When You Are Old And Gray, based on a poem by Yeats, is a beautifully conceived...
Thus, in 1927, wrote Richard Weil Jr. in Yale's famed Lit. magazine. The poem was prophetic, for destiny's doors seemed to develop a habit of opening before brainy young Richard Weil's imperious knock. The doors of Macy's, the department-store chain, opened because Weil was the grandson of Isidor Straus, one of the original owners. But Weil rose rapidly on his own merits. By 32, he had been propelled from a sales clerk to president of Bamberger's, Macy's Newark (N.J.) store...