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POETS IN A LANDSCAPE (267 pp.)-Gilbert Highet-Knopf...
...book is born; a classic is forever reborn. Each generation supplies its own Pygmalions-men with the love and skill to breathe new life into the literary monuments of the past. As Pygmalions to the ancient Roman poets, two lifelong classics scholars and teachers, Gilbert Highet (Columbia) and Rolfe Humphries (now a lecturer at New York City's Hunter College after 32 years at Long Island's Woodmere Academy), have love and skill to spare. Poet Humphries renders Ovid's famed, amoral The Art of Love in its most readable translation since Dryden's, including...
...N.Y.U.'s great rival, Columbia University. There, library officials had already set up a lively exhibition commemorating the 2,000th year of Julius Caesar's death. Now, it seemed, Columbia was commemorating a year too soon. University classicists promptly split on what to do. Scottish Gilbert Highet ("I'm a classicist, not a mathematician") was for calling the whole thing off, but bearded Classicist Moses Hadas favored the exhibition. Meanwhile the university news office, citing the Columbia Encyclopedia, informed reporters that "because of poor time calculation in earlier times," even the birth of Christ "must be dated...
Robert Pearlman, Long Beach, Mathematics; Michael Maccoby, Mount Vernon, Social Relations; Fred J. Levy, New Rochelle, History; Ralph Blum, II, New York City, History and Literature; David P. Chandler, New York City, English; George B. Driesen, New York city, History; Gilbert K. Highet, New York City, English; Robert H. Mundheim, New York City, History; David L. Shapiro, New York City, Government; Stephen A. Weiner, New York City, Economics; Milan C. Kerno, Jamaica, Government; James D. Finkelstein, Rockville Center, Chemistry...
...middle ground Derry Griscom's "Two Dimensions of the Sea" contains a good verbal and rhythmic description of the ocean in the first verse, but falters as the second verse slips into an apostrophe to a microcosmic dream. Keith Highet wrote "And In the Comment Did I Find Charm" within a somewhat limiting rhyme and meter scheme. The poem, like Peter Junger's "Two Kings" is innocuous, but pleasant. I trust that's all the writers intended...