Word: majorca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Collected Poems, by Robert Graves. The bent-nosed Jove of Majorca has sometimes used prose as a pot in which to boil bestselling historicals (/, Claudius), but poetry is his sacred urn. On it, he engraves the moods and passions of love, childhood, and the classic past...
Collected Poems, by Robert Graves. The bent-nosed Jove of Majorca is no Yeats or Eliot, but he can outdistance these masters in evoking the moods of love, childhood, or the classic past. In his own right he is an impressive poet, truer to his passions than to the literary fashions of his time...
Every few years, Robert Graves, the bent-nosed Jove of Majorca, lovingly revises the canon of his verse. The present edition retains most of the poems from the 1955 and earlier collections, adds some 50 new ones, and omits ten others that to the author "seemed to go dead." The reader can approve both the deletions and the additions, and note with some astonishment that while this 66-year-old poet has written of the body's defeats in a new short poem called Surgical Ward: Men, he has also added a sheaf of excellent love lyrics. Among...
Last week a campaign to lure the carriage trade back to Majorca was launched by Monaco's Prince Rainier, a resort operator whose flair for free publicity is the despair of rivals from Cairo to the Catskills. On a visit to Majorca last year. Rainier was impressed by plans initiated by two U.S. promoters to convert a magnificently battlemented castle (vintage 1900) into a luxury hotel and country club and bought into the venture. Called Son Vida (Life Estate), the castle is now an air-conditioned, lavishly plumbed hotel, boasts its own swimming pool, a golf course abuilding...
...Rainier allowed, beautiful Majorca "is a wonderful escape place," adding hastily: "It will never compete with my principality...