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...then turned to tonight's lucky entryway. "You don't get to sit on my lap for the third poem if you're not nice," he said. And before the evening was over, students...
...Spoon-fed the doctrines of literary Modernism--to be profound is to be obscure, the highest art is only to be understood by a cadre of initiates--Amis made rude noises. Coming across the claim that T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land is "the century's most influential poem" and "a supremely important poem," he snapped, "Importance isn't important. Only good writing is." Many of his pronouncements are debatable. But Amis produced reams of good writing, and he was and is important...
...this poem is not pretentious enough...
...contact has been alleged. Nor is there any suggestion that Greene hindered the two women's careers. Instead, Lieut. Mary E. Felix and ex-Lieut. Pamela Castrucci contend that Greene made them feel uneasy by sending them suggestive cards and gifts and calling them on the telephone. In one poem, for instance, Greene told Felix, "Whenever you need to be adored, I will be there. Whenever you need to be befriended, I will be there. Whenever you need to be comforted, I will be there." In another missive, he declared, "I wanted you just as much, if not more, than...
...press release by the Boston University Art Gallery, Pinsky is quoted commenting on Mazur's interpretation of Dante: "Mazur's images grow out of the poem, but not out of conventional apprehensions of the poem...[They] added another reality to my idea of the Inferno's visual meanings...