Word: poems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dublin street ballad. Last week, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rebellion, someone grandly pulled down (or, more literally, blew up) the top half of Lord Nelson's 134-ft. monument in the heart of Dublin. As W. B. Yeats predicted in his poem Easter, 1916, "All changed, changed utterly." Lord Nelson lay in a pile of rubble on O'Connell Street. Said the Dublin police, scarcely concealing their admiration: "An absolutely expert...
...took on a Houston father who had gunned down his stepdaughter's teen-age lover in plain view of witnesses. Foreman excoriated the dead sinner, hauled a church pulpit in front of the jury, delivered a sermon on teen-age vice, and tearfully recited a Sir Walter Scott poem about "pious fathers." The father was acquitted...
...prime was the most popular author the U.S. had ever known. Yet, though he sold everything he wrote and his collected writing fills 20 volumes, his reputation was built on two short stories and 60 lines of doggerel, which Harte himself despised as "possibly the worst poem that anyone ever wrote...
Overland Hole. The two stories and his poem Plain Language from Truthful James, in which Ah Sin the Chinaman beats a table of U.S. poker players at their own game, have found permanent lodging in all the anthologies. Harte himself was astonished at the success of the poem, which was republished in papers and magazines all over the country. He had stuffed it into one issue of Overland merely to fill a hole, and ever after wished that he hadn...
Whoever said "a poem is never lovely as a tree" was talking through his hat. Archibald Mc-Leish's J.B., a poem for the stage, is a lot lovelier than most trees you're likely to run into. True, as rendered by the Lowell House Drama Society, it appears to have lost most of its leaves, and a couple of limbs seem ready for a fall, but the trunk is still there...