Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light in their eyes, the sand in their boots. To prove it, he wrote his True History of the Conquest of New Spain, which remains the best first-hand story of the great conquistadors. From this first-hand material Poet MacLeish has developed an exciting, 2,000-line narrative poem. His terza rima stanzas have no rhyme, but instead a subtle assonance. The story opens with Cortes' embarkation at Santiago de Cuba for the west, against the command of Velasquez, the Spanish Governor. Across the Gulf, in the teeth of Velasquez' organized opposition, they work their...
...settled down in Weimar to spend the rest of his life at the court of his friend, Grand Duke Karl August. From then on as poet, statesman and a genius of widest interests 'Goethe permitted his personality to expand majestically. He crowned his career by writing Faust, a poem into which he poured a lifetime of erudition, inspiration and philosophy. If the German people have a "national poem" it is Faust.* The Emperor Napoleon, to whom Genius Goethe was presented at the zeniths of their careers, engaged him in profound conversation for some time, then implanted the seal of French...
Such is the theme, such the characters, of a new poem by Robinson Jeffers, whom a considerable public now considers the most impressive poet the U. S. has yet produced...
Wings. His wanderings now over, Poet Jeffers devoted himself to following his mind's rising, widening gyres. He had already written much poetry, published one book. At 14 he had won a Youth's Companion poetry prize. A conventional book of love-poems, Flagons and Apples (1912), he followed four years later with Californians. In its most notable poem, '"Invocation," he addressed the westward-shining evening star that had led his ancestors out of Asia, across Europe, the Atlantic, America, to leave him, a solitary poet, stranded...
...eight years he published nothing. He explained to Journalist James Rorty. who came across him while editing, with Poet George Sterling, an anthology of native California poetry, that he did not think anybody would be interested. Tamar and Other Poems (1924) had just been published in New York by an obscure printer named Boyle. The plates were offered free by Printer Boyle to at least two large publishers, who declined to print the poem because of its incestuous theme. Through the efforts of James Rorty & friends, the Boyle edition received a fanfare of reviewers' praise. In 1925 Liveright brought...