Word: poems
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Although it may seem a sacrilege to many that Gilbert has taken the material for his new comic opera Libretto from Tennyson's poem "The Princess," yet it can scarcely be wondered at in this busy age, when even Shakspere cannot escape being travestied by popular playwrights. Early in his literary career Gilbert wrote a burlesque of the Princess for one of the leading London theatres, and it is merely this burlesque, remodeled and polished up, that has achieved a success in London, and that comes before a Boston audience on Monday evening next, under the name of "Princess...
Bulwer's first poem, "Ismael, an Oriental Tale," was written when he was a schoolboy of seventeen...
...Pres., Mr. Wakeman; vice-president, Mr. Norton; secretary, The Williams Athenaeum; board of reference, the president, the Amherst Student and the Acta Columbiana. The next meeting is to be held at Providence and the literary exercises for that meeting were given as follows: an oration to the Brunonian, the poem to the HERALD CRIMSON, a history of college journalism during the year to the University Magazine, and a general paper to the Michigan Chronicle. A plan was proposed and left to be perfected to a committee of two, by which the news of each college should be sent every week...
...chief attractions for visitors to the library. Years ago, before Gore Hall was built, it was kept in Harvard hall. During that time a custom prevailed with regard to it, which it is interesting to recall. Mr. Bigelow thus describes this custom in his Phi Beta Kappa poem...
...Chas. F. Lummis, '81, has a poem in the last Life...