Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beach at Larchmont, N. Y. was Mrs. Ada Alden, 79, poet, widow of Editor Henry Mills Alden of Harper's mother-in-law of the late Poet Joyce Kilmer, who dedicated "Trees" to her. Pulled ashore, revived in ten minutes, chipper Mrs. Alden wrote a 35-line poem about her experience, promised to keep up her daily swims...
...into the walls, contain some 2000 volumes dealing with Seandinavian, Flemish, Dutch, and German art, as well as many other volumes concerning culture of the Germanic countries. Among the treasures of the library is an illustrated first edition of Haus Sachs, entitled the "Wittenburg Nightingale." This is a Protestant poem which was published in 1523, written to be a veiled attack on Catholicism. There is also a volume of Albert Durer's writings which contains several of his famous wood-cuts...
...best poem on any subject approved by a committee of the Department of English. The competition for this prize is open to all undergraduates, who must file the subjects of their poems at Warren House not later than March 1. Manuscripts should be submitted not inter than April 1. $125. Silver Modal...
...abuse of Presidential power in making the appointment, was too honest to pretend to welcome Perry to Harvard. At their first meeting afterward Wendell launched into an attack on Byron's "Vision of Judgment", famous parody of Southey's culogy of King George Third, and upheld Southey's poem against Byron's. Perry writes, "..."I do not usually care for a literary debate while eating lunch, but I could not let anybody exalt southey's poetry over Byron's and I contradicted every assertion that Wendell made. For half an hour the battle was waged, and Wendell told someone...
...himself thro' the gift he inherited? not of his own doings, but a God given talent." Nevin wrote a flimsy little Narcissus, later called it "nasty" but still thrilled to hear people whistle it in the streets. His most famed work, The Rosary, was written to a mawkish poem by a redoubtable California drinker and poker-player named Robert Cameron Rogers. Though The Rosary sold less than 100,000 copies from its publication in 1898 until its composer died, its total sales reached...