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...arrogance of his old age, but it also accounts for the surging incredible productivity of those years-the eternal child in Goethe was an unfailing source of creativity. In the last half of his life Goethe completed five major dramas, four long novels, a 12,111-line narrative poem, a six-volume treatise on color, a ten-volume autobiography, a three-volume edition of his Conversations with Eckermann, and several thousand short er poems...
...Under these white locks," he bellowed when he was 73, "there is an Aetna!" And Aetna erupted to the end. At 82, three months before his death, Goethe summoned his last forces and completed the drama that, after La Commedia of Dante Alighieri, must be accounted the greatest single poem of the Western world: Faust...
Susan J. Smith, a senior at Mills College in San Francisco, has been named first place winner in the Summer School's Fourth Annual Poetry Contest. The winning poem, The Miracle of Creation, is printed below...
...worried incantation against insomnia and some earnest lines on the higher significance of regularity. It is both absurd and touching to see the aging lion mew so meekly. He seems humbly grateful for the small favors of existence, humbly aware of the failures of his private life. In a poem about bedrooms he writes sadly: about blended flesh...
...most valuable and the most fascinating to art historians, who see in them the first stirrings of surrealism. The first person to recognize them at the time was Guillaume Apollinaire, poet and influential art critic, who muttered that Chagall was "supernatural." Apollinaire rushed home to dash off a poem titled Rotsoge (a poetic moniker, deliberately foreign-sounding, by which he addressed Chagall), describing him as having hair like "the trolley cable across Europe arrayed in little many-colored fires." He did Chagall a better favor by instigating a show in 1914 in Berlin. It was a sensation with the German...