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...Evening at Sandover," consisted of selected excerpts from Merrill's book-length poem, "The Changing Light at Sandover." Actress Leah Doyle, Actor Peter Hooten and Merrill each read several different characters...
Andreas Teuber, the artistic director of the Poet's Theater, said that Merrill wrote the play, a greatly condensed version of the poem, at the special request of the Poets' Theater...
...very skillful reduction of [the poem]," said Helen H. Vendler, Kenan Professor of English and American Literature and Language. "The essence of it is kept and one feels the interplay between one's dead friends and oneself and that is what the poem is about...
When I read this poem in public, I always say a private prayer for Vachel Lindsay, who at the age of fifty-two took his life...
Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat was a flop. Its reception must have been a great disappointment to him, for he no doubt felt that he had written one of the most beautiful poems in the English language. It was Swinburne, poking round in an old bookseller's barrow in London, who discovered the poem and knew at once that this was a work of genius. He bought it for twopence, and took it home to devour it, and it overwhelmed him. He brought it to the notice of Tennyson, who after reading it dedicated his Tiresias to Fitzgerald's memory. The poem...