Word: poems
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Professor Gilbert Murray, M.A., LL.D., formerly of Glasgow, will deliver the fifth of his series of lectures on "Greek Traditional Poetry," in the Fogg Lecture Room at 8 o'clock this evening, on the subject "The Iliad as a Great Poem." There will be one more lecture in the series, which will be delivered Friday evening on "Ionia and Attica." The lectures will be open to the public...
...meeting held last night, the Garrison Prize Poem Committee, composed of Professor LeB. R. Briggs '75, Professor B. Wendell '77, and Professor J.P. Baker '87, awarded the prize for 1907 to R.E. Rogers '09, for a poem on "Tschaikowsky." Rogers won the competition last year with a poem on "Serge Witte...
...spirit of the Homeric Age. All indications prove that the "Iliad" was considerably expurgated, whereas the "Odyssey" underwent a less stringent process of revision. Although all the early myths point to many barbarous practices among the ancient Greeks, we see slight traces of them in the "Iliad." The poem is practically free from pictures of human sacrifice or torture, whereas in the "Odyssey" we have one situation very nearly approaching torture...
...LECTURES ON GREEK POETRY. V. "The Iliad as a great poem." Professor Gilbert Murray, of Glasgow. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
Among the poems, the most ambitious is J. H. wheelock's "Paris and Oenone," a remarkably successful attempt to treat a Greek theme in a Greek manner, even to the Introduction of a chorus. The verse is somewhat uneven, but the poem as a whole is well sustained and the handling of the chorus and the difficult stichomythia is unusually good. As a minor point it may be noted that the characterization of Paris as the "husband of Helen of Troy, mortally wounded by the arrow of Philoctetes" and of Oenone as "a demi-goddess--who can heal mortal wounds...