Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most difficult English question: to interpret an obscure poem called "Camelot" by one Charles Dalmon...
...Spain's favorite national hero whose legendary exploits are celebrated in the Poem a del Cid, oldest Spanish epic (12th Century). Named Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, he was called El Cid ("the lord...
...that all its regular readers and many casual browsers have had time to see the current Advocate, few can be unaware of the excellence of the journal, which rarely boasts anything better than the "Opening of a Long Poem." Excellence is by no means a rare quality in the magazine, but it is too often hidden in the mediocre stuff which has earned the publication its Lampoon reputation, a criticism which can be applied to other undergraduate publications. The monthly has too few readers, partially because it is often hastily judged by those who happen to see it only...
...only say that Mr. Agee has deliberately invited comparison, and that he does not come off at all badly from the ordeal. And in case I haven't made my point clear, I hasten to add that this is intended to be very high praise. Certain it is, the poem blows through the pages of "The Advocate" with so authentic and Rabelaisian a gusto as nearly crinkles its decorous pages, and you will search far to find poetry as good as the last nine stanzas. There are numerous dangers in doing something so palpably in the manner of an illustrious...
...program follows in full: March, "Queen of Sheba", Gounod; "Dence Macabre, Symphonic Poem", Saint-Saens; Suite from "Carmen", Bizet; "Facade", Walton; Piano Concerto No. 1, in F sharp minor, First Movement, Rachmaninoff; "California", Tone Poem, Converse; Overture to "Oberon", Weber; Masquerade, "An American Rhapsody", McKinley; "By the Beautiful Blue Danube", Waltz, Strauss; Ride of the Valkyries", Wagner...