Word: poems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cruelest of all was the gibe of G. K. Chesterton, who took the one poem in which Kipling approached beauty, Recessional, a prayer for humility under power, and made...
...answer to the first question it seems that the fiction and poetry are hardly more than a miscellaneous assortment of writing, and at that not particularly unusual. Gerald Gillespie's story might have appeared in the Advocate, as could have D. J. Hughes' poem, Mallarme at Tournon. In terms of quality, the poetry in the current issue is rather unrewarding, especially compared with the last issue which included Allen Grossman, Stephen Booth and Gregory Corso. Canticle for Simonetta by Richard Sewell is uneven, at times forced, and fails to achieve an essential opposition. What is left is a good idea...
...divorcement from poetry, Muir said, the appreciation and even the creation of verse were once very much public property. Two hundred years ago people lived in a handicraft culture, and Muir felt that artisans who could produce a fine chair would be more likely to appreciate a well constructed poem than would the owner of a large furniture store...
...unfortunate that more space in this review cannot be devoted to nine poems by Elizabeth Jennings, collectively entitled "Sequence in Venice." The nostalgia that several reflections on a visit to Venice might inspire is certainly evident in the poems, but it is tempered by a kind of tough-mindedness that elevates nostalgia above a driveling sentiment. Furthermore, Miss Jennings shows an ability to be ironical about human emotion without being preciously funny. In the first poem, "Introduction To a Landscape," we find this irony...
...note this in TIME [Sept. 26]: "Los Angeles Smog: the serious indirect consequences on health, etc." One of the earliest references to smog can be found in the Chinese prose-poem by Sung...