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...Biographer Victoria Glendinning, Edith was her own most inspired poem, and she once described herself in a cascade of fanciful imagery: "Tides ran in her blood, her nature was tempestuous...
...angry mob, chanting "Latin Si, Pusey No," marched from the steps of Widener to Pusey's house, where, after an attempt to storm the house failed, Pusey addressed the crowd with a poem...
...something to watch. In air and bearing, she possesses regal command. Her arrant good looks, particularly those thrush-startled violet eyes, fix all other eyes upon her. On glimpsing her, Poe might have written his poem "To Helen" apostrophizing the most beguiling beauty of the ancient world. QE3 (as someone recently nicknamed Taylor) conjures up that grace and grandeur...
...sometimes make the ultimate accommodation of taking on the worst and most fearsome characteristics of the threatener itself-first as an act of necessity, then of fealty, and finally of free will. The modern Greek poet C.P. Cavafy wrote "Waiting for the Barbarians" to make just that point. The poem consists of a dialogue between an individual citizen and a crowd assembled in the forum of an unspecified city. When the citizen asks why the legislators are not at work as usual, he is told that the barbarians are due to arrive that day; so what would be the purpose...
...even as the statistics and footage of war receded in a blur of swoosh stripes, words began to sprout. A poem, a play, a novel, a memoir might recall what most citizens wished to forget. Some could not. Viet Nam veterans grew older, had children and, as if by some compulsion to pass on their stories, began to talk. In the spring of 1981 the "livingroom war" shows signs of becoming the tape-recorder...