Word: abouts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"They took life's chances....It's a very daring thing to tell the whole truth about what it's like to be alive," he adds.
Ozick's article has provoked enormous debate among poets and scholars. "I think it's going to be one of those big articles that people talk about in the little corner of the world occupied by English professors and poets," says Judith Baumel '77.
Donald Hall '51, whose book Remembering Poets was partly devoted to Eliot, called Ozick's article remarkable, not for any kind of revolutionary criticism but for its "gross, lengthy, un-New Yorkerish attack." By un-New Yorkerish, Hall says he means that the piece conflicts with the weekly magazine's...
Osherow, who lived, worked and wrote in the hills outside Florence from 1981 to 1983, says that it takes about 10 years for a writer to develop a poetic voice and produce a volume of poetry.
In his book, The Burden of the Past, Porter University Professor Emeritus W.J. Bate '39 writes: "In this dilemma, the arts mirror the greatest single cultural problem we face, assuming that we physically survive: that is, how to use the heritage, when we know and admire so much about it...