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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Morgan!), and a cast half Czech and half English have created an old-fashioned drama in which the action flows like bad blood from the heart of one unhappy...
...whole performance and the response are all the more remarkable in that most of his audiences under stand not one word that the poet utters, leaving for stage translators the unhappy job of making the poetry sing in English...
...Fighting Prince of Donenal. Red Hugh O'Donnell, prince of Donegal, was the great Irish hero of the 16th century. At 15, the wild child of the North was such a terror to the English that the viceroy shut him up in Dublin Castle for safekeeping. At 19, he escaped and launched a campaign of impetuous brilliance that drove the British out of Ulster and Connaught. In the next nine years, the O'Donnell and his tall gallo-glavses made Irish stew out of British armies sent against them. Then, while on a mission to the court...
...native tongue comes through in at least one poem in the Marshall translation, his uncompleted "epic" composition, Brat-sky GES (Bratsk State Hydroelectric Power Station). There is special pleasure in these episodes where the original metrical scheme does not call for rhymes above and beyond the call of the English language, and where...
Connery's 590 pages, filled with fact and observation, suggest that he has left out nothing but the recipe for rendyr-stek in an effort to write the definitive book on Scandinavia in English. 'He could have done it in half the space: there is not much competition...