Word: sarton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miss Sarton concluded her readings with two ballads written only a couple of weeks ago. They are both ballads of a traveler and tell of places she visited during her recent journey...
...Miss Sarton divided her remaining selections into different groups. The first group contained three poems about animals; "France, a Goose," "A Village Tale," and "The Swans...
...Miss Sarton began a group of poems about people with "A Celebration," which is a tribute to her father, George Sarton, who was a professor at Harvard. This group included two other poems, "The Action of the Beautiful" and "The Furies...
Places was the subject of the next group. In "Homage to Flanders" Miss Sarton expressed the feeling she experiences whenever she visits another of her homes-- housed the valuable jewels they had to jimmy and sledge-hammer their way through a steel and concrete lid and two inches of display glass. The burglars also smashed their way into seven other display cases. The whole job must have taken them at least three hours, but they were not discovered during that time by any museum employee...
Harold C. Martin, director of General Education at Harvard, welcomed Miss Sarton back to Cambridge and introduced her program. "Miss Sarton's poetry is not 'a la mode,' "he declared," "it is poetry of quiet discoveries and silent healing...