Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spread before the eyes of the young poets who wish to see is the vista of a world of struggle, of economic and political forces locked in a clench, battling without regard for the Marquis of Queensberry's rules. Miss Rukeyser, in her poem on the Scottsboro case, gives us her view; Hayes, who declares somewhat theatrically that he is a "permanent communist," gives us his in "For People Who Buy in Small Parcels," while James McQuail, who also strikes a pose as an "overpowering conservative," stands pat, with "Tea Time Tales" as his offering to the Tories...
...William could never give such a discouraging diagnosis of J. V. Healy's poem. Healy, for some strange reason, is not included in Miss Winsolow's book, though he falls in the categories set by her: he is a college man under twenty. Ive years of age who happens to write poetry...
...quietly at home, Sibelius has been slow to gain a worldwide recognition. This week when the big, bald Finn was 70, that recognition was his in abundance. Orchestras played his music in almost every music capital. In Boston Sergei Koussevitzky conducted Swan-white, Pohjola's Daughter, the tone poem Tapiola. For Philadelphia Leopold Stokowski chose the great Fourth Symphony. The New York Philharmonic played the Second, broadcast part of it to Finland. Sibelius, at 70, lives in a rambling country house in Jarvenpaa, some 30 miles from Helsinki. There he begins each day by dousing his head...
...Muriel Rukeyser was born in New York, attended Vassar, Columbia and the Roosevelt School of the Air, where she gathered material for the title poem in Theory of Flight. In his preface. Stephen Vincent Benet describes her as essentially an urban poet, her mind "fed on the quick jerk of the newsreel, the hard lights in the sky, the long deserted night-street, the take-off of the plane from the ground." The book contains 15 ''Poems Out of Childhood," the long "Theory of Flight," 14 short pieces that range from glimpses of a cinema and a burlesque...
Inquisitive readers who searched From 'Prentice to Patron found 6-year-old Printer Thomas' broadside to be an antique, circuitous poem which told how a Lawyer had been produced by a series of cohabitations between such persons as a Knight, a Friar, a Nun, a Lady...