Word: englished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economics at the University of the South, more than a glint of Pasternak's poetic genius filters through; whole stanzas blaze with life and passion. But, since Pasternak frequently relies on a fusion of images and sounds, perhaps only an inspired fellow poet could devise sensuously idiomatic English equivalents. In Translator Kayden's rhymes, Pasternak's lyric song is sometimes reduced to schoolboy singsong...
Whatever its shortcomings, Poems is a significant literary event. Culled mainly from seven slim volumes of his verse produced between 1916 and 1945, this is the first comprehensive collection of Pasternak's poetry ever to appear in English...
...Pasternak was influenced by an esthetic movement in Russian poetry that rebelled against the didactic, social-protest verse of the late 19th century. He was briefly drawn to the "Futurists." with their sprung rhythms and staccato, telegraphic style. But in many ways he also harks back to the English romantics. With them-Blake, Shelley, Keats-Pasternak sees nature as the handwriting on God's wall, or at least as the outward sign of an unseen and perhaps mystical order of things. And with the romantics, Boris Pasternak shares the belief that the creative imagination is itself divine, sharing...
Look Back in Anger. John Osborne's dramatic milestone about a young English outcast who actually looks back in madness more than anger, filmed in an atmosphere that suggests a dripping winter morning in the English Midlands. With Richard Burton, Mary Ure, Claire Bloom...
...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.).* A live TV adaptation of Graham Greene's The Fallen Idol, in which a seven-year-old English boy (Jacques Hirschler) faces the destruction of his private world when he discovers that his male baby sitter (Jack Hawkins) is having a clandestine affair with a well-endowed "niece." With Jessica Tandy...