Word: annee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THE STEVE ALLEN COMEDY HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). In a spooky spoof, Allen & Co. suggest that movie musicals be based on oldtime horror films. Tim Conway, Lou Rawls, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara help Steve with the ghost songs.
Yet America's first poet is to be found among the Puritan settlers. She was Anne Bradstreet, a high-spirited girl from a wealthy family, whose work is being published as part of a Harvard University Press series on American cultural history.
Tenth Muse. Anne Bradstreet was 18 when she came to Boston in 1630, but already a scarred combatant in the battle for salvation. Two years earlier, God had chastised her "carnal heart" with smallpox but, later the same year, relented and presented her with a husband she loved passionately. For...
Anne herself left no explanation of why or how, with this full life, she wrote poetry, but write it she did-reams of it, in relentless iambic pentameter. It was dourly didactic, endlessly hortatory: "Come, come, I'll show unto thy sense,/ Industry hath its recompense." Some of it...
Velvet Verse. After three centuries, time has tossed up just such a poet in John Berryman, whose Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, published in 1956, is one of the best long poems in English since Eliot's Four Quartets. He knew Anne's limitations: . . . all this bald abstract didactic...