Word: epitaphs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Poetry, the late Wallace Stevens was fond of saying, is the one reality in an otherwise wholly imaginary world. Shortly before his death in 1955, he wrote a poetic summation of the poetic experience that serves well as an epitaph...
...history. His prose and poetry have appeared in about 125 anthologies here and in England. Some of his short verses have travelled by word-of-mouth so fast and far that they often turn up credited to "Anonymous." One of the epigrams credited to his name is his "Epitaph for a Walter": Bye and bye God caught...
Says Nyasaland's Hastings Banda : "We will soon write the Elephant's epitaph...
...hopeful, revolutionary years of a half-century ago when Sun Yat-sen founded the Republic of China. Like his country, Hu Shih's own family was split: one son is on the Communist mainland, another in the U.S. For his many friends, Dr. Hu Shih's epitaph could be taken from one of his own poems...
...erected in West Potomac Park. The memorial has been variously described as "the epitome of mid-20th century art" by Architect Philip C. Johnson and as "instant Stonehenge" by the critical Washington Post and Times Herald. The Post last week suggested that one of the slabs carry an epitaph to the shortlived National Recovery Administration (1933-35): "Here lies beneath this pillar grey/The late-lamented NRA/It lived and breathed and had its day/But, thank the Lord, it went away...