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...time he goes to Oxford, in the early 1930s, to polish off his Canadian education, Francis has been honed into a practical, tightfisted young man who is also a thoroughgoing romantic about art. He meets Tancred Saraceni, the world's foremost restorer of old masterpieces, and confesses a secret desire to become a painter himself. The trouble is, Francis adds, he does not find the methods of any contemporary artists compatible. Saraceni replies: "Don't try to fake the modern manner if it isn't right for you. Find your legend. Find your personal myth...
...Diem, the Shah of Iran and Chile's Augusto Pinochet. Now add Ferdinand Marcos. The repressive rule of these leaders, with their human-rights violations, economic inequality and police-state justice, invariably creates armed internal opposition. We should drop President Marcos like a hot potato. Gary Fox Oxford, Ohio...
Almost 40 years after his death at the age of 33, Denton Welch is little more than a literary footnote. Hard-cover editions of his three novels have long been out of print. The New Oxford Companion to English Literature grants him 16 lines (Pocahontas gets 20). Yet in this deep obscurity there are glimmers of revival. The Journals of Denton Welch has recently been reissued, and a biography appeared in Britain last year. Now The Stories of Denton Welch is making its first appearance in the U.S. Readers weary of conventional narrative or the current mode of minimalism...
Thus were the bristly experts in the world of literary scholarship arguing last week the merits of a young Kansan's claim that he had discovered in Oxford a long-buried poem by William Shakespeare. If authentic, the work would be the first notable addition to the canon in more than three centuries. Gary Lynn Taylor, 32, joint general editor of the Oxford University Press's forthcoming New Complete Shakespeare, reported that he first glimpsed the find while checking through the Bodleian Library's listing of first lines in the catalog of its vast manuscript collection. He came across...
...heaven" and that they "twinkle in their spheres." Oddly enough, though, Taylor was also pleased to find some words that Shakespeare used nowhere else. Scanty, for example, does not appear anywhere else in the language before 1660, nearly a half-century after Shakespeare's death, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. "Shakespeare was always trying to create a new language, a new way of speaking," Taylor explains. "It's only mediocre writers like you or me who use the language that other people have invented...