Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poet Paul Engle of the University of Iowa agrees: "You can't treat the writing of poetry as if it were a course, say, in history, where the student can gather facts and attitudes and offer a paper which is essentially 'true.' ... A poem is not a study of a problem, but a strange melting together of sound in the ear, of conception in the mind, of impulse in the nervous system, of old actions mired in the memory. The most the teacher can do is to probe the body of the poem for lesions that corrupt...
...this process-"to find the good in a poem . . . and to urge the young poet to thrust his verse in that direction"-a teacher sharpens a talent already there...
...Daughter of Texas Governor James Stephen Hogg (1851-1906), named for the heroine of a poem (The Fate of Marvin) written by her uncle, Thomas E. Hogg...
Light Verse is a dying art, contends Harvard's foremost bard. David T. W. McCord '21, Honorary Curator of the Farnsworth and Poetry Rooms in Lamont made the statement after winning the William Rose Benet memorial award of the Poetry Society of America last Saturday for the best poem published in the Saturday Review of Literature...
...Metrical Memoirs" goes through two world wars, a depression, the New Deal, and Income Taxes, with suitable expressions of despair. The central theme of the volume, however, in aptly summed up in the 50th reunion poem...