Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cast is mainly responsible. Their enthusiasm, their esprit de corps, their sense of comedy, all made the audience forget they didn't know Greek and have a grand time anyway watching some of the best horse-play this side of Broadway, a Sophic Tucker version of a Greek poem, an angel on roller-skates, a Heracles in striped pyjamas, and above all, Harvard as the Cloudcuckootown! Backing up the cast was an original musical score and masks, costumes, backdrops, done with skill and rare humor. Congratulations should also go to a gentleman named Aristophanes who constructed such...
...First Piano Sonata (1936) and the Violin and Piano Sonata in E (1935), are know hereabouts. The Violin and Piano Sonata (1939) has just been completed, and the Sonata for Piano Four Hands (1938) has not been heard here. The first Piano Sonata, inspired by Hoelderlin's poem, Der Main, is familiar to Cambridge audiences. Its direct, simple beauty has earned several performances here. The Violin and Piano Sonata in E has not been heard so frequently, and those who are acquainted with the earlier works in this form will be surprised at the light lyricism and simplicity of this...
...Orson Welles from Shakespeare's King Richard II, Henry IV, Parts I & II, Henry V; produced by the Theatre Guild Inc.). When Richard Bentley, the greatest English classical scholar of his age, read Alexander Pope's famed translation of the Iliad, he remarked: "A very pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer." In Boston last week, when Orson Welles presented the first half of his much-touted, much-trimmed version of Shakespeare's chronicle plays, certain it was that-pretty or otherwise-Welles should not call it Shakespeare...
...loud laughs, as in all up-to-date humor, are few, but E. B. W. sometimes unbends to such old-fashioned jovialities as pointing out the difference between a major and a minor poet: "Any poem starting with 'And when' is a serious poem written by a major poet. . . . Any poem, on the other hand, ending with 'And how' comes under the head of light verse, written by a minor poet." Or his suggestion for a digest to end digests, "which condensed a Hemingway novel to the single word 'Bang!' and reduced a long...
Robert Frost (Litt. D., '37, honorary), poet and teacher, will be the guest of honor at the Adams House dinner tonight, and will speak afterward in the dining room on "The Figure a Poem Makes," Illustrated with readings from his poems...