Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Librettos (more accurately, scenarios) for ballet are generally, for some mysterious reason, the work of poets though the spoken word plays no part. Origin of Union Pacific was Mr. MacLeish's satiric poem, "Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City," which celebrated the building of the transcontinental lines by immigrant labor, satirized the role of the promoters & capitalists...
WOMAN OF THIS EARTH - Frances Frost - Houghton Mifflin ($2). Long poem (or series of poems) about a woman's life, by a New England poet (no kin to Robert Frost) whose stock is going...
...Fons Bandusiae" (Randall Thompson) in which both choruses joined to do honor to Horace, "By the Rivers of Babylon" (Loeffier) wherein the Radcliffe girls eloquently express the melancholy of the Psalmist, and "John Brown's Song" (Robert Delaney) which was a strange and certainly modern treatment of the poem by Steven Vincent Benet...
...competition for places on the Harvard-Radcliffe delegation should communicate with Professor Packard at Holden Chapel before 2 o'clock on April 18, the time at which the competition will be held. Each competitor will read for six minutes and the selections read may be either one long poem or several short selections. The Vassar meeting will be held on Saturday, May 12. On Sunday some of the readers will broadcast from New York City...
Latest member of the artistic La Farge family to make his literary bow is Christopher, in a 224-page poem which he modestly calls "an American novel in verse." A patriotic poem, Hoxsie Sells His Acres sings not of arms and men but of Rhode Island land-lovers. A nostalgic tribute to a land that has seen its best days, it has fluency and charm, tells its low-keyed story with sentimental conviction. Walter Hoxsie's farm on the Rhode Island shore had been in his family for generations. He liked his life there, especially when his cousin Sarah...