Word: poem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This task is laid out in the first poem in the book, "Digging" (1966), which is one of Heaney's most famous works. It is also one of many that directly address the writing process itself...
...like college applications. Clay's and his classmates' contributions to their alumni reports and their children's application essays to Princeton are minor works of literature compared to Pope and Dryden, but they posess a clumsy eloquence and--to their creators--are infinitely more important than some long-forgotten poem...
...editors plan to run domestic and international news, profiles and reviews, as well as fiction by established writers, and several intriguing new features, including Ecofeminism and Inner Space. Among notable pieces in the first issue are a well-reported article on women in Eastern Europe, a new poem by novelist Toni Morrison and a reprint of the 1972 classic Why I Want a Wife, by Judy Brady...
...strongest, most durable voice belonged to Allen Ginsberg, whose poem Howl was taken up as the Beat manifesto. The tribal saga was Jack Kerouac's On the Road, a novel that celebrated, among other things, the nation's interstate highway system...
Tennyson's 19th century vision, described in his poem Locksley Hall, could become 20th century reality if an international group of space buffs has its way. In the U.S. and Canada, in Europe and Asia, teams of scientists and designers are busily completing plans for innovative craft that will travel through space propelled solely by sunlight reflecting off their giant sails. At a meeting this fall of the International Astronautical Federation in Dresden, Germany, at least three of the ships will be picked to compete in a fantastic voyage: an unmanned sailing race to Mars...