Word: poe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refuge hi nonsense. Chesterton found shelter in sense. His immense output (some 150 books and innumerable articles and poems) evidences a long wrangle with madness -the lunacy of the new century and the wildness of the mind. As Jorge Luis Borges observes, "Chesterton restrained himself from being Edgar Allan Poe or Franz Kafka, but something in the makeup of his personality leaned toward the nightmarish; something secret, and blind, and central...
...baseball cantata based on Casey at the Bat? Pulitizer Prizewinner William Schuman, 64, is warming that one up. There has been comparatively little pressure on composers to wave the flag or concentrate on Americana, though Leonard Bernstein is setting to music poems by eight favorite writers, including Whitman and Poe. Dominick Argento and Vivian Fine are writing chamber operas respectively on Chekhov's monologue On the Harmfulness of Tobacco and Famous Women (Gertrude Stein, Isadora Duncan, Virginia Woolf). For a touch of Shakespeare, Alan Hovhaness and John Harbison are at work on operas based on Pericles and The Winter...
...onto the middle levels of America's bestseller lists. He is also a fabulist with a heart, capable of making the arcane both accessible and emotionally stirring. Near the end of The King's Indian, Gardner briefly introduces himself as a man who, "with the help of Poe and Melville and many another man, wrote this book." The attributions are graceful but hardly necessary, for Poe and Melville rattle around in this book like a couple of dybbuks. Gardner seems possessed by their eagerness to stare into the black holes of transcendental optimism, and two of his nine...
...given Nietzsche's physical characteristics (a high forehead, "the brow of a philosopher," and a huge grizzled mustache. With the vitality of a dog grinding a juicy bone, Rosenberg goes on to extract from the 60 Sherlock Holmes stories strong influences from Oscar Wilde, Catullus, Robert Browning, Racine, Poe, Mary Shelley, George Sand and even Jesus Christ...
During the '60s, journalists searching for a Western equivalent of Yukio Mishima used to mention Ernest Hemingway. It was a prophetic comparison, but they might as usefully have thought of Edgar Allan Poe reincarnated in Norman Mailer-a garish, night-blooming talent driven by an energetic sense of publicity. Mishima, the literary genius of Japan's postwar generation, often mentioned for the Nobel Prize, delighted in shock and contradiction. He possessed luminous and fertile abilities: his complete works in Japanese are now being collected in 36 volumes. He was also a master of what Russians call posh-lust...