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...LIFE TO LIVE. In his fourth film, the first to reach the U.S. since Breathless, French Director Jean-Luc Godard has compiled another dazzling textbook of cinema technique, and has composed a lyric poem of images about a woman who sells her body and saves her soul...
...clearly for the legend they had themselves invented, nor the irritability of the succeeding Imagists, who deprecated his poetry because of his "imprecise" romanticism. But poetry is an art of masterpieces; a life's work of competent versifying has not the staying power of a single poem that lodges in the race's memory. Keats wrote four or five such poems, which possess that special magic without which a poem is merely verse. Although current poetic taste leans to the sinewy complexities of Donne and Eliot and Auden, Keats probably draws and has drawn more young readers...
Perilous Desolation. These theories, which might have made Keats the first modern poet 100 years ahead of time if he had lived to carry them out, far outstripped his poetic practice. But they provide a fascinating commentary on the elegant debate that he carried on with himself in poem after poem. It grew from his short life's continual conflict between delight in the rich, romantic dream worlds that he was so skilled at creating, and the pull of complex humanity, which he saw but understood art could never fully trap. In his most famous Ode (to a Nightingale...
Biographer Bate, Lowell Professor of the Humanities at Harvard, sometimes detours through academic bogs, especially when he is taking the reader by the hand through every well-known poem Keats ever wrote. Aileen Ward, who teaches at Sarah Lawrence, is briefer, less searching, more wrapped up in the psychology of such things as Keats's ambivalent feeling toward women-induced, Miss Ward feels, by his shock when his mother married again barely two months after the death of his father. On many insignificant details-such as whether Keats had syphilis when he wrote Endymion-the two biographers differ sharply...
...made two movies that even his friends admit are terrible. Then last year he suddenly settled down and made this brilliant film. My Life is a tour de style almost as startling as Breathless but more subtly accomplished, more purely felt. It is also a lyric poem in which the camera assiduously adores a beautiful woman. It is finally the tragic allegory of a soul whose pilgrimage to grace goes spiraling ecstatically down the drain...