Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radiator. Lance Corporal Mortimer grinned down from the driver's seat. A few yards farther on Phyllis Oakes rolled off the car which sped away. Rushed by her sister to a hospital, Miss Oakes died while friends remarked that only the day before she had written a poem on Death entitled Smile. A capable secretary, she had worked regularly for second-string Novelist Dorothy Brandon (Beau Regard...
...Professor Copeland is not the only Harvard man to be represented in the Almanac. Robert S. Hillyer '17, associate professor of English, can beast of his "Snow is the Kindest" appearing on page 3, a place of honor. It is, in fact, the first poem in the pamphlet...
Short-bodied, long-faced Irish Poet James Stephens (The Crock of Gold) lectured at the University of California. Excerpts: "I know when I have a poem the same way a hen knows she has an egg. . . . All perfect ladies are or should be cats; if they aren't they have lost their femininity and are partly male...
...seven brothers whose lives represented, as they plunged toward their respective dooms, the seven Capital Sins. Beginning with a prolog describing the death of the father-"This giant man, this grey old beak, disastrous Granite of God that lay upon them always"-that released them into the world, the poem recounts Jared's death from avarice, Abel's from gluttony, Jasper's from pride...
...tactless mother who had taunted him about his lameness; he was oppressed by thoughts of living in Newstead, the chill, half-ruined manor that was haunted with memories of the crimes of his wild ancestors. He carried with him the manuscript of Childe Harold but expected nothing from that poem. On Aug. 1, his mother died. Next day one of his dearest friends was drowned. On Aug. 12, in the depths of despondency, he composed his "outrageous" will that carried its explicit provision for the "disposal of his carcass." He slept in an enormous bed decorated with Oriental splendor, kept...