Word: essayed
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David Perkins's short memorial essay on Ezra Pound as the instructor of a great generation of writers now dead is an appreciation and not (though it could be) an invidious comparison between Pound's time and ours; but there is a point to his repeating Pound's advice: to remember the old virtues of economy, force and precision; not to be afraid to make readers think; to remember that poetry should be at least as well-written as prose. And Marc Leib's review of a posthumous collection of Sylvia Plath's play and poems has some points...
...essay called Rebirth of God, The Death of Man, Critic Leslie Fiedler observes that "the New Religious are determined to be no inert congregation rehearsing the words of dead Visionaries and half-mythological Saints, but a living church of actual Visionaries and Saints." To them, writes Fiedler, the death-of-God theology was talking about the death of a method-its own-rather than a subject...
...After reading your Essay "On Providing Aid to Yesterday's Enemies" [March 5], I wonder if maybe we haven't turned the other cheek once too often...
...Epps published The Speeches of Malcolm X at Harvard. The book includes all three of Malcolm X's Harvard speeches as well as a long essay by Epps analyzing his rhetoric and ideas. By this time Monro had resigned as dean of Harvard College to assume his post at Miles. But he and Epps had apparently solidified their relationship along the way. The Speeches of Malcolm X at Harvard is dedicated, not insignificantly, to John Monro...
...York Times cut into the book with a double-edged blade. It praised Epps's light editorial hand which preserved the essential wit and rhythm of Malcolm X's rhetoric, but added that Epps's essay was "more obscure" than the speeches...