Word: musee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tenth Muse. Anne Bradstreet was 18 when she came to Boston in 1630, but already a scarred combatant in the battle for salvation. Two years earlier, God had chastised her "carnal heart" with smallpox but, later the same year, relented and presented her with a husband she loved passionately. For several years she was plagued by fear of barrenness, though eventually she bore eight children. Life evolved around them and the two men she adored, her husband Simon, a busy government envoy, and her father Thomas Dudley, who succeeded John Winthrop as Governor of Massachusetts...
...hortatory: "Come, come, I'll show unto thy sense,/ Industry hath its recompense." Some of it was inadvertently funny: "Was ever gem so rich found in thy trunk/ As Egypt's wanton Cleopatra drunk?" Yet when her work was published in London in 1650 as The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up In America, it became one of the "most vendible books in England," and when its author died in 1672 her eulogist said: "Time will a poet raise/Born under better Stars, shall sing thy praise...
...each other," wrote Yevtushenko hopefully in 1960. "Everywhere they speak the same tongue." But unhappily, intelligible dialogue between American and Russian nightingales is severely inhibited, partly in the matter of language, chiefly by the nature of Yevtushenko's nonpoetical preoccupations. The handicap is not so much that his muse is a Marxist but that she is a public creature: poetic sensibility in the West is involved in more private, perhaps more eternal matters...
...muse is by no means wholly Washington-pent or satire-bent. In "Grandmother's Mind," for example, she acutely renders childhood memories...
...Beatles are a cheeky crew. They constantly muse over the inevitability of what they call "The Downfall"-the end of the public's affair with them. And they always have a chuckle or two over the way all the pussycats lionize them. Beatle John Lennon, in fact, once said: "We sort of half hope for The Downfall-a nice downfall...