Word: poems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past three years, he has been working on a new opera. "British composers," says Walton, "are all writing operas now." With about 20 minutes of music left to write, Walton thinks he may finish in another year. The work is Troilus and Cressida, based on Chaucer's poem, not Shakespeare's play ("You can't set Shakespeare's to music"), and the world's top opera houses have already made bids for the premiere. The story, adapted by British Librettist Christopher Hassall, is practically foolproof opera material. The scene...
...poem of hate to the "Remote and ineffectual Don that dared attack my Chesterton" is in the anthologies. Together Belloc and Chesterton created the modern legend of a medieval England vigorous in its earthy Christianity, bluff country squires, boon companions, Catholic piety and roistering taverns. Sang Belloc...
...them what a "beautiful-looking couple" they were and what a "gorgeous-looking boy" little five-year-old Roy was. Says Harrington: "Their chests always swell up, and they feel real proud. Then I say, "I have another matter on now. Suppose you step outside and look at the poem on my wall.' " The Eliasens looked, and lingered tearfully over two of the sentimental stanzas...
...minutes later the Eliasens, husband & wife, were back in Judge Harrington's courtroom; the separate-maintenance suit was dismissed. In the dozen years since it has been hanging on the courtroom wall, said Judge Harrington, the Burt poem has helped to reconcile no fewer than a hundred couples...
Posterity is likely to take a kinder view. If he never wrote an "experimental" poem in his life, his Highwayman is still one of the most rousing rhymes in the schoolbooks, and is long apt to be so. If his preferred friends on two continents were unfailingly genteel-and apt, like himself, to deplore "that curious modern tolerance for things which ought not to be tolerated"-he has written, in Two Worlds jor Memory, a candid and gossipy account life & letters on the old Right Bank...