Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Panelist Constantine Trypanis, of Oxford, asked if any country represented by members of the audience still produced long narrative poems. "Long poems are a thing of the past," a man from Ceylon answered. He added that, although ten years ago Ceylonese poetry was more patriotic, now it is a mixture of religious and love themes...
Moderator of the discussion will be Jack Ludwig, novelist and critic, and panel members will include Denis Donoghue, University College, Dublin; Sergio Perosa, University of Venice; and Constantine Trypanis, Oxford University...
Alexander is unlikely to remain idle, however. His Shakespeare has just been published in Oxford's Home University Library series. "It was brought out for Shakespeare's birthday." And he intends to keep working on his own, "if my mind holds...
...NOVELS, by Brigid Brophy. An Oxford classics don, Novelist Brophy is best known for her savage book reviews in English periodicals. In these two new lightly plotted and wickedly brilliant novellas about a New Year's Eve amorous adventure, and the about-face of a Lesbian schoolmistress, she shows the elegant artifices and tricks of style of a latter-day Ronald Firbank...
...least it was funny. Path of Dalliance is modeled on the same book, but is a bore. The trouble seems to be that Auberon has become a little bored with his father's titled ghosts, and he somehow never puts them in motion. As they meander through Oxford together, their languid adventures seem more pathetic than comic-for the good reason that they belong to a world that disappeared just about the time Evelyn was writing its obituary. It is a little like seeing Buster Keaton hurl a custard pie into empty...