Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Byron also survives his Missolonghi fever in a wicked imagining by Harold Nicholson, who in his essay has the poet fumble on till 1854-as nothing less than King George I of Greece, "an obese little man descending the steps of the Crystal Palace on his wooden leg, supporting himself on his famous umbrella, and clasping a huge red handkerchief in the other hand." The wooden leg has replaced the clubfoot of Byron's dashing early years, which the poet-King lost, along with all vestiges of poetic vision, while fighting ineptly against the Turks near Lepanto...
...ONLY ONE ESSAY in the book really struck home, Robert Fitzgerald's "A Memoh, Reprinted from The Collected Short Prose of James Agee. Fitzgerald's memories show a recognition of all the possible roles he could use to talk about his friend, and through this awareness there comes a seriousness that comes closest to understanding Agee as artist, journalist and man. There seems to have been a certain distance in their relationship that allowed Fitzgerald 'o use his keen sensitivity to us fullest extent. But there was also a great deal of shared experience...
Robert Graves, the English poet, observed in 1972. "Technology is now warring openly against the crafts, and science covertly against poetry," Ben Bova, in the opening essay of the book, "The Role of Science Fiction," attacks Graves head-on-. It is Bova's contention that the gap between science and literature is artificial. He feels Graves errs in his view of science and scientists for the layman; he feels science fiction, at its best, should function as a modern mythology...
Will success spoil science fiction? Two of the writers in Science Fiction, Today and Tomorrow discuss what could happen to science Fiction in the future. James Gunn, in his well-documented essay, traces the development of modern science fiction and its recent public acceptance. Gunn sees a danger for pure science fiction as mainstream writers like Anthony Burgess. Herman work and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. turn to the themes and concepts" of science fiction. To Gunn, such writers represent a literary culture that is hostile to science fiction with its rational, pragmatic view of the universe. The New Wave of science...
...Griffith's Essay on what can rightfully be expected of politicians [Jan. 27] captured many of the frustrations I've felt and the lessons I've learned in 20 years of trying to lead...