Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another controversy that Audience's second issue provoked centers around a thirteenth century Provencal poem by Girault de Bornelh. Graduate student Stephen Orgel claims that Norman Shapiro's recent translation in "a Cambridge literary journal," leaves out the final, and crucial, stanza. To his amusing remarks on the poem's translations Orgel adds, "as a pendant to Mr. Shapiro's translation," his own spirited rendering...
...characters are so many musical instruments for a rather sophisticated but monotonously scored tone poem. There is a mother (Aline MacMahon) who is pleasantly, parochially country-housish; her once-vigorous brother-in-law who is now just terribly old; her overserious, not very human son (Hume Cronyn), a civil servant who has lost out on the girl who loved him and is losing out on a career. There is the girl herself (Jessica Tandy), now a middle-aging widow who loves him no longer. Devoid of pasts or futures or both, the characters are drowning with the utmost politeness...
...skits which included 1) the unrepentant drunk; 2) the "red-nosed, buttermilk-eyed, beetle-browed, peanut-brained, stall-fed old saloonkeeper"; 3) the society woman who spends her time on yachts drinking wine, her "miserable hands red with blood." His masterpiece was probably his theological version of the popular poem, Slide, Kelly, Slide! In this, Sunday impersonated both God (The Great Umpire of the Universe) and poor Kelly himself, who had taken to the booze. It was climaxed by a home-base slide across the splintery pine boards and the dramatic cry: "You're out, Kelly!" (i.e., of Heaven...
...book, Johnson has set out to build a basic framework of knowledge about the poems and the poet's development on which future scholars can depend. For every poem in his edition, Johnson has listed the principal text, the variants which Miss Dickinson is known to have written, and the changes introduced in the publication by different editors...
...Johnson said there are enough manuscripts of known date to furnish plentiful clues to the poet's handwriting, and an exhaustive handwriting analysis has been prepared by Theodora van Wagenen Ward which has dated a poem within a given year...