Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...symphonic poem,' such as the title poem of this volume, always reminds us of the close connection between poetry and music. "A Time to Dance" is composed like a symphony, with three movements; the themes of each movement are separate, and each movement is self-contained. The first describes an early trans-continental flight to Australia, and it illustrates abundantly the devotion of Day Lewis to a strictly contemporary poetic diction, which takes account of the machine and the effect of machinery upon modern life. There is mention, for example, of 'petrol pump,' 'hangar,' 'filter,' 'magneto,' and other technical expressions...
Died. Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler, 74, famed Alsatian-born composer (Mort de Tintagiles, Pagan Poem, Evocation); in Medfield, Mass...
...publish the book), is Cummings at his most untrammeled typical. Apoplectic or easily worried readers had best leave it alone; but bolder or more placid spirits will come to no harm, may even find some food for thought, amusement or admiration in No Thanks. Such an observable sunspot is Poem...
what does little Ernest croon in his death at afternoon? (kow dow r 2 bid retoinis wus de woids uf lil Oinis Those who would like to see a good take-off on the white cult of the Negro will find one in Poem...
...Poem 44, for which Author Cummings does not seek wide circulation but which he wishes to ''exist for posterity." will appear only in the holograph edition (limited to nine copies at $99 each) wherein Mr. Cummings will write it in longhand...