Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without doubt, this is the poem Mr. Hoover...
...think that J shall never sec A poem like the G.O.P.; A P. whose hungry mouth is prest Against the Treasury's flowing breast; A P. that gathers Tax each day. And makes us lift our arms to fay; A P. that thinks that we have got A pair of cltiekctis in each...
...Last spring President Hoover asked Crooner Rudy Vallée for a "good song." Last month Poet Christopher Morley revealed that what the President thought the country needed was a "great poem." Last week President Hoover had sent greetings to oldtime Funnymen Weber & Fields on their Golden Jubilee, telling them that what the country needed was "a resoundingly good new joke." ¶Roscoe Conkling Simmons. Chicago Negro who seconded the Hoover renomination in June, led to the White House 150 representatives of the "Republican Joint National Planning Committee to Get out the Negro Vote," spread them out on the south...
...modesty with which Author Benét calls his long poem "a novel in verse" should do much to mollify harsh critics. The brevity and simplicity of his narrative should please unexacting readers. The theme: Sheila as a girl had been in love with Gordon, but he had gone away, she had married Dermot. Though she wanted children, none came. Then Gordon appeared again. As a result of their brief passion Sheila bore a son, Barry. Gordon at first knew nothing of his existence; everyone but Sheila thought he was Dermot's son. Years later, his mother and father...
...main, scientific, emphasizing the historical changes which condition art, or its sociological and economic causes. But the approach which gives literature its chief significance and uncovers its closest bonds with the serious and comic business of living is the personal, informal, circumspect way of feeling out of a poem its final emotional substance and seeing how it jibes with ones' own experience. It may be said with truth that literature is not taught in a rigidly scientific manner in Harvard. The real fact is that it is taught indecisively, middlingly and aimlessly, with unwise emphasis on artistic forms...