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...that Pravda threatened to prosecute the "malicious slanderers." When Stalin later declared Sholokhov to be "the great writer of our tune," any discussion of the novel's true authorship became extremely dangerous. But the controversy would not die. In 1967 Russian Poet Andrei Voznesensky publicly recited an unpublished poem in Moscow that clearly alluded to Sholokhov...
...Regarding the verse Sam Ervin quoted before the news conference: God, give us Men! [July 22]. The poem might have had more significance if it had been paraphrased to include the female half of the population. As it is, if the call for people of strong minds and great hearts is limited to men alone, the pickings will be slim indeed...
...included the four final lines of Josiah Gilbert Holland's poem, you might have affronted a quibbling press and that faultfinding, do-nothing Congress whose principal aim is to get reelected. I dare you to quote these lines, which apply to Democrats as well as to Republicans...
...large batch of welcome photographs, many of them done by LIFE'S Howard Sochurek during Frost's 1957 visit to England. The poet is elsewhere, though never so remote that he cannot inform anything that has been written about him. For example, these lines from his long poem on New Hampshire...
Jaromil indeed becomes a poet. He tries to spy on the maid as she takes her bath, and fails, but produces a vivid poem about his "aquatic love." The genius of lyric poetry, Kundera observes, "is the genius of inexperience ... We can scoff at the poet's lack of maturity, but there is something amazing about him too. His words sparkle with droplets that come from the heart, and that gives his verse the luster of beauty. These magic dewdrops need not be stimulated by real life events. On the contrary, we suspect that the poet sometimes squeezes...