Word: musingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first of three fall lectures as Oxford's new Professor of Poetry, British Litterateur Robert Graves, 66, last week wound up the series with a final cautionary note to young ladies who dream of becoming an artist's inspiration: "Too many irresponsible young women, eager for muse-ship, go in search of poetic recognition. Unless they have the integrity, the ruthlessness, and the certified characteristics of a real muse, they will get entangled with pseudo poets. The outcome is always sad, often sordid. Cunning pseudo poets ruthlessly exploit a pseudo muse's innocent ambitions. The ancient Irish...
Finding evidence of talent in Sing Muse, New York Times critic Howard Taubman warned that scholars and undergraduates are likely to suffer from cuteness and/or esotoricism in writing or popular forums...
Most favorable was John McClain, first-string critic of the Journal-American. He concluded that "Sing Muse is fresh, funny and melodic. Better put the look...
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...