Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While he remained a familiar mystery on the campus, his fame soon reached beyond Harvard. His first poems were published when he was 31. In the next eleven years he had produced The Sense of Beauty, which Münsterberg called the best book on esthetics ever written in the U. S., two more volumes of verse, a series of interpretations of poetry and religion, the five volumes of his urbane, skeptical statement of naturalism, The Life of Reason. Although Santayana himself had declared that he was no poet, comparing himself to Don Quixote, the Spanish-American War aroused...
...distinguished by the fact that Professor Hill's First String Quartet is to receive its initial performance. Professor Hill has during the past dozen years ventured far and wide in the field of composition, and many of his works including his first two symphonies and his orchestral poem "Lilacs" have been played by Dr. Koussevitsky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His new contribution to quartet literature is awaited with great interest...
...fifteen year old secondary school boy who had been assigned the writing of a Christmas poem was still struggling at eleven O'clock the night before the poem was due, with two or three lame lines. Finally, having searched in vain for acceptable synonyms, he sagely remarked that he considered the meaning more important than the metre. I agreed and, as he trudged off to bed, I reflected upon some reading that I had just done in the works of an author with an extraordinary facility for rhyming. This particular author is scintillating, facetious, and resourceful, but my conclusion...
Novelist Booth Tarkington predicted: ''The novel and the poem may become extinct in 200 years, 100 years or in much less time. Radio and talking pictures already have displaced books in many homes and television will injure the popularity of books. There always will be books but perhaps the only books in the future will be reference books, scientific-books and research books...
...Healy's poem is published in pamphlet form for the benefit of the New Workers' School. It is indicative of his mastery of rhythm and sense. Healy s a poet who thinks, not the frenzied Vates of popular imagination. His "Portrait" bears the spiritual and ethical features of a contemporary figure; the broker, like the poor, is always with us, even if the knight-errant is dead and buried and has not even left a successor in the G-men. Healy's five stanzas are a study in free will; the last may be quoted here...