Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago, Emperor Hirohito, speaking to his people in the hour of defeat and surrender, composed a poem...
...Marianne Moore is offering her small but fervent public a collected view of her poetic garden. Nothing quite like it has ever been seen before. Through its pleasant paths wander such birds and beasts as the jerboa, the Malay dragon, the pangolin and the plumet basilisk. In one poem she presents "the frilled lizard, the kind with no legs, and the three-horned chameleon . . . that take to flight if you do not." But while the surface of these delicate verses concerns animals, a second look shows that they are about human beings, too-and about such virtues as orderliness, courage...
...write any poem referring to Emily-colored hands,' hissed Miss Sitwell...
Auden, who won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for poetry with his long poem, "The Age of Anxiety" was in Cambridge over the weekend to watch rehearsals of the forthcoming Harvard Dramatic Club production of "The Dog Beneath The Skin...
...laying of the cornerstone three quarters of a century ago, was a ceremony complete with the presence of the Governor and the National Lancers of Massachusetts. Oliver Wendell Holmes dedicated a new poem to the infant hall, which the crowd sang to the tune of the Russian National Anthem of St. Petersburg. In its description of the scene, the Boston Advertiser wrote rapturously of "Sanders Theatre, of wondrous size, with ambulatory, vomitorium and proscenium not unlike those of classical antiquity...