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...exhibit of rare editions and the most important works of Alexander Pushkin, great Russian poet, has been arranged by the College Library in connection with the international commemoration during the next two weeks of the hundredth anniversary of this author's death...
...most valuable items in the exhibit is a copy of Pushkin's "Gabrielide," as printed in the first definitive edition at Peterburg in 1922. A blasphemous poem, this work was not printed during the poet's lifetime; but the verses fell into the hands of the police and Pushkin was forced to deny authorship in order to avoid severe punishment...
Verse ON THIS ISLAND-W. H. Auden-Random House ($1.50). Latest collection (31 poems) of England's most-touted younger poet. Lay readers may note echoes of A. E. Housman, Robert Burns, Laura Riding...
Harvard has never felt chagrin at its Class of 1910 which featured such celebrities as Columnists Walter Lippmann and Heywood Broun, Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot, Communist John Reed, New York's Representative Hamilton Fish Jr., Economist Stuart Chase. The Class of 1911, however, sported so few notables 25 years after graduation as to prompt Sportswriter John Roberts Tunis, Harvard 1911, to publish a pessimistic portrayal of his classmates' aspirations and accomplishments (Was College Worth While?}. Most distinguished member of 1911, in the consensus of the class, was Cartoonist Gluyas Williams, who shone on the Harvard Lampoon...
Next March the Moscow Philharmonic will give the world premiere of Prokofieff's second suite based on Romeo & Juliet. He also has been commissioned, in connection with the centenary of the death of Poet Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), to do special music for a cinema and two plays, in all three of which his performance will perforce be compared with those of Russians who have made use of the same Pushkin works: Boris Godunov (Moussorgsky), Pique-Dame and Eugene Oniegin (Tchaikovsky...