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...elements of a decent poem are so construed that they take meaning only in relation to the totality, indeed that the progressing of a poem can make unnecessary and even harmful the coagulation of inspiration, is proved, if it needed proving, by Rachel Hadas' exposition of a paradox in "Lucretius Widow Thinks Aloud." Miss Hadas adopts the epistemological methods of the rationalism she explodes and argues her case in spare language simply arranged...
...traditional meter of English narrative poetry might evoke for English readers of Juvenal what that poet, following the examples of Lucilius and Horace, evoked for Roman readers of satire: the suggestion of an ironic tone through the epic ring of the hexameter, used for very serious purposes by Lucretius and Virgil. Lowell has done exactly this, and sometimes achieves subtle effects with his rhythmical variation. Illustrating the latter are the first twelve lines of "The Vanity of Human Wishes" Note the suggestive variation of stress in the eleventh...
...English 115) Samuel Coleridge (English 257) Dant'e Alighieri (Italian 120) Charles Dickens (English 259a) Fyodor Dostoevsky (Slavic 155) Jonathan Edwards (English 276) T.S. Eliot (English 267) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German 120) Nikolai Gogol (Slavic 154) Henrik Ibsen (Scandinavian 1) Immanuel Kant (Philosophy 130) John Keats (English 256) Lucretius (Latin 107a) Thomas Mann (German 285) Michelangelo Buonarroti (Fine Arts 257) John Milton (English 131) Freidrich Nietzsche (Philosophy 235) Pindar (Philosophy 278b) Plato (Classical Philology 236b, Philosophy 102) Aleksander Pushkin (Slavic 152) H.H. Richardson (Fine Arts 274) Rainer Maria Rilke (German 269) Friedrich Schiller (German 113) William Shakespeare (English...
...Your article covering Dr. Hoyle's theory of gravitation [June 26] was very informative, but it seems to me that Dr. Hoyle was preceded by Lucretius, who in 70 B.C. said: No single thing abides, but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings; the things thus grow until we know and name them. By degrees they melt, and are no more the thing we know...
After resigning as dean that same year, Pound became Harvard's first "roving professor"-entitled to teach throughout the university-and for eleven years he expounded on everything from sociology to Lucretius. Prime founder of the pioneering American Law Institute, he wrote 44 books, ranging from Readings In Roman Law to The Spirit of the Common Law. At 76, already a master of French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Latin. Sanskrit and Spanish, he took up Chinese in order to reorganize Nationalist China's judicial system. When the Communists took over the mainland before he could finish, Pound lambasted...