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Paul Engle, poet and founder of the University of Iowa writers' program: Moby Dick, "because the prose is equal to the theme"; Tom Sawyer; the poems of John Donne; the plays of Shakespeare; the King James Bible, because "the language is equal to the great theme." Engle, 74, has...
The show was conceived as a singular crossbreed of documentary and star-studded entertainment, politics and theatrical pizazz. The script called for Orson Welles to growl out passages from John Donne between scenes of labor union rallies in Chicago and West Germany; President Reagan and a dozen other heads of...
In Brooklyn, a survey of the resurrected French realists , thou shall die," the metaphysical poet John Donne once ex claimed in a transport of religious feeling, and one proof that he was right lies in the history of taste. In recent years, artists' reputations once thought to be buried...
When John Donne looked around the 17th century (the time when science seized the world from the church), he was dismayed that the new scientific discoveries were calling "all in doubt." These days science calls nothing in doubt but itself, since its authority is largely unchallenged. As a result, modern...
It certainly is. One hundred and fifty miles from the southern border of New Mexico and just over 100 miles from Alamogordo, the site lies between two jagged mountain ranges in a valley named by the conquistadors Jornada del Muerto (Dead Man's Walk). It is remote and entirely...