Word: poems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mind, he traveled over India and the Near East, filling it full of glittering jewels, gilded swords, muscular slaves, milk-skinned concubines. He was one of the great melodramatists of all time, and his melodramas were always superb. His Sardanapalus was inspired by reading a dramatic poem by Lord Byron, and the picture he painted has the impact of an orgy. The figures are so arranged, in an almost circular composition, that they seem to swirl and dance, much like the flames that will soon over take them. This is romanticism at the boiling point-an extraordinary mixture...
...students met under Rebellion Elm and made demands on the College. The entire sophomore class resigned but returned within two weeks to have several of its members sent away again. This insurrection was chronicled in the once famous "Rebelliad; Or Terrible Transactions at the Seat of the Muses," a poem in four cantos which was printed and privately circulated for many years after the revolt...
Victor Hugo's pen was never still, and not necessarily because he was writing a novel or a poem. He could be holding forth at a cafe, and however brilliantly or passionately he talked, his pen would begin doodling as if it had a brain of its own. "How many times," said his friend, Novelist Theophile Gautier, "have we not watched with astonished gaze the transformation of a blot of ink or coffee on the back of an envelope into a landscape, a castle, a seascape of amazing originality...
...friends of the late Bela Bartok. It is an all-Hungarian recording of Bartok's only opera, with Old Friend Basso Mihaly Szekely singing the lead, and Old Friend Antal Dorati conducting. The performances are more devoted than the music justifies: the opera remains a penny poem...
...Evtushenko in Germany and from him had learned all about "fashionable Moscow youth." In Minsk, where Dmitry Shostakovich's new 13th Symphony was performed for the first time outside Moscow, a critic castigated the composer for basing part of his score on Evtushenko's famed poem. Babi Yar, a savage indictment of Soviet anti-Semitism that the literary commissars have already made Evtushenko revise...