Word: iliad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stylization: the potential tragedy is played almost entirely in bright daylight, and as the mood of the film lightens, El Dorado moves into a rich and sombre darkness, pointing up the seriousness of Hawks' vision and the importance of the issues he raises. Structurally, the film closely parallels The Iliad. Hawks' glorious and affirmative art redeems 20th century man from an emasculating and increasingly ugly world...
Whether there actually was, as the Prologue states, "a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields" is irrelevant. Gone With the Wind convinces us that there was, and like the Iliad, becomes as much a part of the national heritage as the story it tells...
...dull in class except in history, he shambled about the sham Tudor buildings. His friends called him "Cal," after Caligula, because he was so uncouth; he liked that, and today is still known as Cal. His nature became clear to classmates after he started reading commentaries on the Iliad and Dante's Inferno. As his roommate, Artist Frank Parker, recalls: "The point was that you could put yourself into heaven or hell by your own choice...
...time he left St. Marks for Harvard in 1935, Lowell had written in an essay on the Iliad: "Its magnitude and depth make it almost as hard to understand as life." So soon, Lowell had put art and life on a parity. At Harvard, he lolled in his room, surrounded by prints of Leonardo and Rembrandt, listening to Beethoven on his phonograph. He wrote poems full of violence and foreboding, black roses, a "plague" that "breathed the decay of centuries." No one then at Harvard was interested, so Lowell took his verses to Robert Frost, who was living near...
...edited various literary texts, most recently, with Rueben A. Brower, professor of English, Pope's translation of "The Iliad...