Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contribution is really far greater than that. For it is he who has discovered the necessity and utility of writing letters to the papers. Of course, someday some corrupt biographer in the employ of the Bank of France may point out that he waited until he had a poem (so-called) on every newsstand round about (note: The Advocate came out day before yesterday) before bursting into print in any given locality. But any future charge that he is a publicity-hound will be false. IT CERTAINLY WILL. Ezra Pound will LIVE. Generations after people have given up trying...
...hero of the novel is Myron angle, as uninteresting a character as the Mr. Lewis has yet turned out. In this he burns an insatiable passion for the temptation of the Perfect American Inn, similar to the poet's dreams of writing the Perfect Poem. Myron is not a business man steeped in Babbittry, but a maniac whose fanaticism, tempered with practical vision and intelligence, carries him from his father's sleepy hostelry in Black Thread, Connecticut, to the top rank of the "Mine Hosts" of America. His vicissitudes in the course that progress constitute the thread the story...
...tremendous scope of the Ring with its mass of detail is frightening to many a first hearer. Richard Wagner was 26 years writing it, doing first the poem of Die Gotterdammerung, prefacing it then with Siegfried, Die Walkure, Rheingold. Before the music was written Wagner turned out Tristan and Die Meistersinger, operas that he trusted to keep him before the public while the great tetralogy was in its slow making. The Ring's music was written chronologically. Its design is like a symphony with Rheingold corresponding to an introductory first movement; Walkure to a tender andante; Siegfried...
Last week the Circuit Court reversed the District Court, decided that George was not the author of the folksong that ranks close behind "Casey Jones." Judge Davis quoted the Dalhart version which Victor attributes to two other Virginians, Charles Noell and Henry Whitter who took Noell's poem, modified it a bit and sang it around on street corners and in plank taverns to a guitar and harmonica accompaniment. Dalhart made "The Old 97" go this...
...solution of our ills is to encourage the moonshiner, the mountaineer, and his bootleg brand; he should be allowed to issue his product under a special tax, microscopic in dimensions, and should be praised for his simple, homespun way of living and working; he should be glorified in poem and ballad, and should develop a tried and true clientele of drinkers hardy enough to withstand the ravages of excess. Fancy and phoney foreign liquors, and bottled in bond American whiskeys, are to be left to the effete, in the reform which I envisage, while the great mass of the drinkers...