Word: poems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thank you for your [Jan. 19] explanation of the reasons for the French troubles with finding a stable government. It reminds me of a poem by A. A. Milne...
...Ellison, a 15-year-old Alexandria, Va. high-school girl, was puzzled to find that in some textbook versions of the poem Sea Fever ("I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky"), the word "go" was omitted. She sent her problem to the author and back came a hand-written note from John Masefield, Poet Laureate of England since 1930, who wrote: "The word 'go' should be in the line. In some editions it dropped out somehow, but is now restored. It is the original reading...
...Harvard newspaper, while the Yale Daily News did it full justice. The editors pointed out that three articles appeared in the CRIMSON the Monday after Yaeger scored the 41st point in the Yale football game--one on the front page, one on the sports page, and a poem. "Give Thanks," in the editorial columns. However, Life gave the CRIMSON credit only for its brief Tuesday squib, and failed to mention the Monday write...
With characteristic dogmatism (one can hear the empty church re-echoing), TIME Dec. 22 announced that T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets is "the only major poem the 20th century has produced ..." I doubt if Mr. Eliot, who is a Christian and practices a certain humility, would concur in the dizzy valuation placed on his poem. He certainly would not abuse the work of Yeats, Stevens, Rilke and others equally significant, with the term minor poetry...
...submitting for your approval a little original poem which was written in the hope of helping a special Harvard junior to make his decisions...