Word: poems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very much impressed by the prayer of an unknown Confederate soldier quoted by you in the Jan. 2 issue. I should like to know something about the poem's source. How does anyone know that it was written by a Confederate soldier, and so forth? Where is it on record...
Christopher Fry's A Sleep of Prisoners is not really a play, nor even a dramatic poem. It may perhaps best be described as a confusing verbal exercise in philosophy. The English playwright apparently set out to describe the state of mankind in a world at war, with man represented by four prisoners locked up in an unused church. Instead of presenting his ideas--which say pretty much that "no man is an island"--through a conventional plot, Fry approaches his theme through the dreams of the captives. Each of the dreams is based on a Biblical story, but despite...
...various interests of Harvard's publications at this point are best summarized by an Advocate poem...
...this first Decennial dinner that Oliver Wendell Holmes, one of the honored guests, read a poem patterned after "The One-Horse Shay," and entitled "How the Old Horse Won the Bet.' This poem was not one of Holmes' masterpieces, but the board felt it was certainly worth publishing and sent their best material-monger, Everett Hale, around to see Holmes the next morning...
Sources disagree as to Holmes' reaction to the request. One story has it that he said, "Young gentlemen, that poem might do to read before your board, but I hardly think it worthy of a place in your columns." A member of the board at the time, however, recalls that he merely muttered, "Can't find it. Can't find it," and rushed off down the street. At any rate, the board was somewhat dismayed to read this same poem two months later in the Atlantic...