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...Poem after poem the third volume of Residence on Earth and of "Spain in Our Hearts," a work filled with indignation and pathos that he began a month after Garcia Lorca's death, reiterates that theme...
...From a Lewis Carroll "nonsense" poem, and apparently meant to imply that while all people are pigs, the most imaginative...
...yules New Yorker Writer Frank Sullivan saluted friends and celebrities in a full-page poem, nutmegged with his gentle wit and redolent rhymes. The poem failed to appear last year; the sage of Saratoga Springs was too ill to write it. Then, last winter, Sullivan died at the age of 83. But this week's New Yorker does not leave the "season all unbarded and countless friends un-Christmas-carded." The humorist's former editor, noted Parodist Roger Angell, 56, has raised a toast in the master's distinctive style...
Switching back and forth from The Smugglers of Lost Souls' Rock to the mother tale of October Light is a little like reading Terry Southern with a Robert Frost poem as chaser, or vice versa. But Sally (and the reader) gradually sees the connection. The characters of The Smugglers are also locked in demonic contest with their enemies-and themselves. They too know what Gardner seems to regard as the incurable and often suicidal addiction of modern man: a passion for absolute freedom that says, "I will be God or I will...
...early in Milton's career, and hence represent rather a preliminary study for the Great Epic. In any event, this fragment clearly is a major addition to the Milton corpus, illuminating as it does with hitherto unparalleled clarity the personal dimension to Paradise Lost, showing how deeply rooted the poem is in Milton's own experience. The fragment also seems to confirm Harold Bloom's controversial claim in A Map of Misreading that Milton's "allusiveness introjects the past, and projects the future, but at the paradoxical cost of the present, which is not voided but is yielded...