Word: delver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gerard Manley Hopkins or Hart Crane--or Theodore Roethke, who was one of Dickey's favorites. But Dickey was himself--a now and then wild American, good at putting his own myths in motion and intoxicated by the English language. English professors called him "Orphic" or "Delphic," a prophetic delver, with an eye for nature and, interestingly, for the sometimes violent meanings of machines (cars, fighter planes). At his best, in the poems he wrote from the late '50s to the early '70s, he produced work of a virile and transformative splendor...
...entry onto the information superhighway allows users to obtain the latest information about the stars and content to the network's shows, delver into NBC's multimedia applications and meet network personalities on-line...
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