Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Romeo and Juliet. Never has Shakespeare's love poem been so splendidly set-among the Renaissance remains of Venice, Verona, Siena (TIME...
Romeo and Juliet. Never has Shakespeare's love poem been so splendidly set -among the Renaissance remains of Venice, Verona, Siena (TIME...
Peter Junger's choral poem The Magic Circle, which proceded Corso's play, did not measure up. James Shucter's direction was extremely deft, and together with the precise and sometimes beautiful delivery of Peggy Polk, Nancy Curtis, Keith Gardiner, and Harold Scott, exploited well what the poem had to offer. But to me this was not a great deal. Junger's language is often musical and thrilling, but his images of fallen glory (grey Byzantium, the sleeping emperor, druids) and modern confusion (herds of taxis, flame-winged planes, departing stars) seemed little more than trite. At times...
...should think the critics will say that I have ruined the poem. They have a rather good case," Spender had said before reading his new version. But John M. Brinning of the New York City Poetry Center disagreed. "Mr. Spender's show of apprehension about the revisions is touching but false," he said...
...Spender's attempt to make the poem more explicit is courageous," added Edwin Honig, Briggs-Copeland Professor of English...