Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...verbalisms (Anna Livid Plurabelle, Work in Progress) which by some are highly touted as a significant experiment, seem to others merely words in a helter-skelter retreat from significance. Joyce himself used them sparingly in Pomes Penyeach (1927), eschews them entirely in Ecce Puer (1936), his single four-quatrain poem written during the last decade. His later poems, which in general hew to the line of modern Irish minor verse, in their essential scope are no advance over his earlier pseudo-madrigals. All arise from and express similar, unimportant sensations: casual pangs felt by a sensitive nature in the clutch...
With the sorrowing lyrics of James Joyce (see above), U. S. readers last week could compare a noted poem in a professionally heartbroken tradition. Ballads in the styles called cante hondo and cante flamenco had been made up and sung by guitarristas in Andalusia for centuries before Spanish poets began consciously to exploit their simple metres and barbaric flair. In Spain and in Europe at large the acknowledged master of this school was Federico Garcia Lorca, a musician and theatrical producer who was shot by Fascist troops in Granada last year. His best poem, written in 1935, was the Lament...
...Unitarianism, seceded from the Society of Friends to form his own group. *As much as members of a tolerant faith may be, U. S. Friends are currently incensed at the makers of Old Quaker Whiskey, and at advertisements for Old Taylor Whiskey which lately featured a picture and a poem of Quaker John Greenleaf Whittier...
...saloon in Lakehurst, N. J. appeared John Henry Titus, 91, with a kerosene-soaked rag in his shoe to ward off mosquitoes. He sank to one knee, and, with gestures, once more recited his famous poem, The Face on the Barroom Floor. Poet Titus said he now makes his living picking huckleberries. He wrote his famed poem in 1872 as the fifth episode of a seven-canto poem: The Ideal Soul. The scene was taken from a tavern in Jefferson, Ohio. There are now more than 1,000 versions that have sprung up anonymously...
Recorded also are the lines of the Poet Laureate of England, the ode on Alumni Day and the Phi Betta Kappa poem, speeches of students and graduates, the citation on the conferring of honorary degrees, congratulatory messages from the four quarters of the globe, and full lists of delegates and institutions...