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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disappointment No. 33 is his new epical poem The New World. Homerically splendid in conception but plain dull, for the most part, in execution, the book presents a detailed catalog of slips whereby the New World has fallen from its original promise of a New Age to the "age of brass" following Appomattox; to the ''age of gas" initiated by "logolyrist" Woodrow Wilson; finally to the "age of soap-grease" sponsored by Franklin Roosevelt. Most tragic slip, in Poet Masters' reckoning, was the Civil...
...When the Nazi censors expunged his works, along with those of all other non-Aryans, from the roster of German literature, they were confronted with the unfortunate fact that he was the author of "Die Lorelei"-a song without which no German beer party is complete. The poem perforce remains in Nazi songbooks. its author blandly listed as "unknown...
...Student Songs of the XVII Century, from "Studentenschmauss," (1626) Schein Bacchanale, from "La Belle Helene" Offenbach Canon: O du eselhafter Martin Mozart Men of Hariech Welsh Folk Song Harvard Tarantella Randall Thompson (Composed for and dedicated to the Yale Glee Club, 1937) Orpheus With His Lute Parker Bailey (poem by William Shakespeare) Hopei Schupei Czechish Folk Song The Testament Heinrich Marschner (student song of Heidelberg) Yale INTERMISSION Liebeslieder Brahms Choruses from The Yeomen of the Guard Sullivan Soloist: D. P. MacAllester '38 Football Songs Harvard Brave Mother Yale Thomas G. Shepard Shall I, Wasting in Despair? Old English Air (Words...
...Brown's Poem Successful...
...poetry, Mr. Brown's "Hey of the Last Sheperd" is an ambitious and, on the whole, successful job. Rhythmically it moves with sureness (as his other poem in the issue does not); the texture is close, and while the poem is long, it builds up solidly. Under the primary influence of the later Yeats--in particular, I think, of "The Second Coming"--Mr. Brown has tried for the compression and suggestiveness of symbolist poetry. The difficulties of such a technique are great. In stanza 4 the strained Apollo-Daphne pattern of symbols sticks out like a bad metaphysical conceit; while...