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This three-hour book was quarried by Peter Stone from a play by Jean-Paul Sartre, who dug his drama out of Alexandre Dumas père. Long after chronic boredom has set in, Actor Drake is made to muse...
This slender volume-in which Poet Lowell assembles his imitations of 66 "important poems" by 18 poets (from Homer to Pasternak) in five languages (Greek, German, French, Italian, Russian)-suggests that, in Lowell's case at least, one man's muse is another man's poison. About half of the poems still show the smudge of translation; about half read like English originals composed by a talented foreigner. But a few of them roil and hiss with the vigor and brilliance that makes Lowell, at 44, one of America's major minor poets...
...week ago the New York Journal-American blared forth in a banner headline: OFF BROADWAY GOES HARVARD. A couple of days earlier, a small box on The New York Times' theatre page had announced that "'Sing Muse', a musical that offers 'a new slant' on Helen and other matters leading up to the Trojan War, will open off Broadway in the first week of December...
...Sing Muse" was born in a Hum 2 classroom last year. In the spring, on a Leverett House commission, section man Erich Segal '58 teamed with composer Joseph Raposo '58 and turned his fascination for the mock-heroic into the theme of a musical comedy...
...Sing Muse" becomes the second Harvard play to receive a New York contract within the last two years. "Oh, Dad..!", by Arthur Kopit '59, will be presented next spring...