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...POETRY AND POWER, edited by Erwin G likes and Paul Schwaber. An anthology of poems-some elegiac, some angry-lamenting the death of John F. Kennedy. Certainly among the most valuable of the hundreds of volumes about the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 27, 1964 | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

Most of these poems are restrained when compared with Walt Whitman's effusive When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. Nor are they elegiac in the usual sense. In poetry as elsewhere, the sea of faith has receded, and poets no longer have recourse to the traditional symbols of comfort and deliverance. The poems are for the most part stoical, terse, plainspoken. But all of them bespeak a grief as great as any poetry of the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bright Essence | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

...Transcendentalists never die. Ignoring the Bomb, the Beats, the Beatles, and other forces of change and disintegration, a small group of American poets continues to write mild, mellow verse in the Concord manner of Emerson and Thoreau. Their themes are hill and dale, solitude and sadness; their tone is elegiac; and the best of them is Winfield Townley Scott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Can All Come Green Again? | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

...Vale of Kashmir, which Nehru loved, to the cotton fields around Ahmadnagar Fort, where he had been imprisoned by the British. It was now clear that Nehru had known for months that he lived close to death. On a scratch pad on his desk, Nehru had neatly written the elegiac lines of Robert Frost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Close to the Soil | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

...LIED VON DER ERDE (Deutsche Grammophon) is Gustav Mahler's masterpiece. The song cycle is a rippling reflection of elegiac Chinese moods that now and then surges up to a torrential "Yes!" This version, with Mezzo Soprano Nan Merriman, Tenor Ernst Hafliger and Conductor Eugen Jochum leading the Concertgebouw Orchestra, even surpasses the excellent recording made by Merriman and Hafliger with the Concertgebouw sev en years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 20, 1964 | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

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