Word: cowley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...World War II, the garden now blooms with some 300 varieties of flowers, shrubs and trees. Other amateur gardeners stop by to ask for cuttings and to trade notes on lush hybrid ivy. Such a bower well fulfills that dream of true Englishmen expressed in 1664 by Poet Abraham Cowley: "I never had any other desire so strong ... as that I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden...
...mass, especially in the ancient form practised by the monks at the Cowley monastery at 980 Memorial Drive, is one of the fundamental esthetic experiences of the western world. Major elements of the liturgy have been performed with little change in churches since New Testament times. The monks are professional worshippers and they perform their ancient roles with grace and impeccable timing. The priest at the altar, the candles, the incense, the mysticism, and the compelling solemnity--or their equivalents--are found in the rites of almost all religions, even the most primitive. They strike a chord deep within...
NONFICTION: And I Worked at the Writer's Trade, Malcolm Cowley...
NONFICTION: Coming into the Country, John McPhee ∙ Dispatches, Michael Herr ∙ Chateaubriand. George D. Painter ∙ A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld ∙ And I Worked at the Writer's Trade, Malcom Cowley...
Occasionally, Cowley's fondness for categories makes him a man of numbers instead of letters: he finds five preconditions for a literary generation, four stages in the composition of a story. But he never abandons his book's true aim: the reclamation of three underrated authors and friends: Robert M. Coates, Conrad Aiken and Erskine Caldwell. Of the trio, Coates is the least read and the most appealing. Parisians of the '20s remembered the tall redhead bicycling through the streets: "He looked like a flag," one of them said. Coates was The New Yorker...