Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concluded with "Prelude to an Evening" and "Painted Head," and at the audience's request, he read a poem he had first written for a Harvard Phi Beta Kappa convocation...
...sombre note was introduced with the playing of a recording of the late Merrill Moore reading a number of his poems about death, Seamus O'Neill, an Irish poet, read three of his poems that had been translated from the Gaelic, noting, "it puzzles me that people who have no knowledge of Irish history are still interested in it." Mr. Chaney then called the Fugitive movement "the greatest philosophical meetings" of his life...
Robert Lowell, the second-generation Fugitive, added some humor to the meeting with his "Falling Asleep over the Aeneid," read after a brief exchange with Tate. "When 'Cal' first appeared in Tennessee," Tate reminisced of Lowell, "he thought a mule was a donkey." Lowell pointed his finger at him and charged, "When I first appeared in Tennessee, you thought Emerson was a mule." When the applause and laughter at this remark had died down, Tate looked up quietly and said, "I still...
Elliott assumed the chairmanship, while Tate read his own stirring "Ode to the Confederate Dead...
After another warm introduction, Ransom read his "Autumn Harvests," called by Tate "the finest poem ever to come out of the South...