Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hughes' Essay is misdirected. Any artist is free to write (or not to write) a royalty clause as a legally enforceable condition of sale for his work. If he does, he must be willing to accept a lower price for his work than he would otherwise receive. The thinly veiled effect of legislated (required) art royalties is to discourage competitors of established artists (like Mr. Rauschenberg) by reducing market prices for the work of fledgling artists. Economists describe the effects of such legislation as raising "barriers to entry." Mr. Hughes would no doubt call this behavior in other markets...
This short, urgent essay on the world's chances for survival has all the cheerfulness of a medical warning de livered to a middle-aged man after a bad checkup. "Slow down," Doc Heilbroner in effect says to the human race. "You're not the kid you once were. You can't burn the candle at both ends any more - maybe not even at one end, the way your energy resources are going. And you'll have to trim down that population bulge. Keep on doing what you're doing...
Shakespeare is the only writer since the author of the Bible to whom popular tradition has paid its highest compliment--doubting whether he actually existed. There has never been a satisfactory single-volume edition of Shakespeare, and the good criticism on his work is limited to about one illuminating essay per play...
...finally released, the character which Eliot himself made every effort to hide will remain deeply perplexing. It was "not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; not an expression of personality, but an escape from personality" that Eliot demanded of himself as a poet in his essay Tradition and the Individual Talent. And with the Impersonal Theory of Poetry Eliot sought to divert his readers' interest from the poet to the poetry through self-sacrifice, the extinction of personality. The "heap of broken images" which is The Waste Land possesses no single central consciousness, only a conglomeration...
...TIME ESSAY...