Word: poems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...text of Sir John's Hill has been the magazine's most valuable critical contribution to date. In a short essay in the first issue, Audience editor Ralph Maud shows how the manuscripts give a new insight on Thomas' process of word choice in a few lines of the poem. His critical remarks are specifically directed and clearly stated, and the piece is of greater concrete value to Thomas scholarship than a more pretentious approach might allow...
...rather slight misquotes, of a piece written by my grandfather, the late Samuel Ullman of Birmingham, Ala. (a public school there bears his name) . . . Twenty years after my grandfather's death, a journalist interviewing MacArthur at his Tokyo head quarters in late 1945 was struck by a framed poem over his desk. It was called Youth, and was apparently anonymous. The general said this poem had been sent to him years before, and had always occupied the position over his desk, wherever that desk was located - even throughout the campaign in the Pacific . . . I believe I echo the feeling...
Romeo & Juliet. Never has Shakespeare's love poem been so splendidly set -among the Renaissance remains of Venice, Verona, Siena (TIME...
Anthology (Sun. 1 p.m., NBC). Reading of Russell Davenport's poem, My Country...
Romeo and Juliet. Never has Shakespeare's love poem been so splendidly set -among the Renaissance remains of Venice, Verona, Siena; with Laurence Harvey and Susan Shentall (TIME...