Word: poemes
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...Coldwell Banker, says that he once engaged Telling in a duel to see who could remember more of William Cullen Bryant's Thanatopsis. First Poulson would deliver a line or two, and then Telling. Long after Poulison had given up, Telling was still reciting the 81 line poem. He should certainly know the poem by Edgar A. Guest that graced the cover of the 1934 fall-winter Sears catalog. The last stanza...
...projects included two full-length historical films. One would concern Tories vs. Loyalists, the other the age of revolution. Both would be "mystical," "Virgilian" epics of a "prenatal nation." These were in addition to an "antiCommunist manifesto," a "new form of movie short roughly equivalent to the lyric poem," and some "pieces of writing whose rough parallel is the prophetic writing of the Bible...
...reason for being. Alastair Reid may have forgotten that the principal reason journalists exist in society is that people have a need to be informed of and comprehend the details of experience. "The right to know and the right to be are one," wrote Wallace Stevens in a poem about Ulysses. The need is basic, biological. In that sense, everyone is a journalist, seeking the knowledge of the times in order to grasp the character of the world, to survive in the world, perhaps to move it. Archimedes said he could move the world as long...
...academic discoveries go, this was only an "almost" after all. In February, Peter J. Seng, an 'English professor at Connecticut College, announced the discovery in Harvard's Houghton Library of a long-forgotten, unpublished poem by William Wordsworth...
Seng's plans to publish the poem, however, were derailed in April, after a Cornell professor wrote him a letter informing him that he had already handled and was aware of the poem...