Word: epitaphed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That is the epitaph that Poet William Butler Yeats wrote for himself, and, according to his careful directions ("No marble, no conventional phrase"), it is engraved on his simple tomb in the churchyard of Drumcliff, in the poet's native Sligo. But ever since his death in 1939, his admirers have refused to cast a cold eye on his memory. Last month an American economist, John J. Kelly, remarked at a Dublin dinner party that he would subscribe $1,400 towards a Yeats memorial if Ireland would put up an equal sum. Ireland's men of letters soon...
...EPITAPH OF A SMALL WINNER (223 pp.) -Machado de Assis-Noonday...
...stories, nobody had ever bothered to translate Machado into English until William L. Grossman, a New York University economics professor, ran across his writings during a 1948 teaching stint in Brazil. Grossman became so fascinated that he spent all his holidays translating one of Machado's best novels, Epitaph of a Small Winner. U.S. readers who share Translator Grossman's enthusiasm for ironic wit and pessimism can enjoy an unusual book that now & then resembles Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Voltaire's Candide...
Human Editions. The hero of Epitaph is a ghost named Braz Cubas, and the book is written in the form of his memoirs. He begins, as a ghost should, with his own funeral. Only eleven people show up, but he receives a handsome eulogy. Braz observes to himself that the government bonds he willed the speaker have undoubtedly oiled his tongue. How truly famous he might have been, he reflects, if he had ever completed his great cure-all-the Braz Cubas "anti-melancholy" plaster-to relieve the despondency of mankind...
...signing of a separate peace with West Germany and the formulation of a new defensive alliance in Europe were final notice that Western indecision had given way to Western resolution. For once it was a case of the West acting and the Communists reacting. The dove's epitaph had been written in a directive from Moscow published last month in an obscure French party organ, but only last week belatedly recognized for what it was. "Explanations and propaganda for peace," ran the new party line, "are not enough. It is now necessary for a resolute orientation towards action. Action...