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Palomobo's poem gained in the presentation. Robert Beatey as Oedipus, and Elinor Fuchs as a sympathetically obscure Sphinx delivered their lines with a casual dignity which saved the play from any traces of pomposity. The language was pleasantly straight-forward and graceful, and the theme of Oedipus before the crossroads was interesting enough to carry the piece...
Romeo and Juliet. Never has Shakespeare's love poem been so splendidly set -among the Renaissance remains of Venice, Verona, Siena (TIME...
These Stories of Changing Forms, however brutal, point the moral of Ovid's poem. Mankind is punished for the great sin which the Greeks called hubris-overweening pride. "I am too great for Fortune's power to injure," says arrogant Niobe, proud mother of seven sons and seven daughters. The boast is scarcely uttered, when Apollo looses 14 fatal arrows from his bow. "She would have been happiest of all mothers," comments Ovid, "had she only not thought herself the happiest." Over and above the turn of Fortune's wheel, there is an inexorable change-the passage...
...therefore, this his linguistic precision does not result in the sort of dryness or lifelessness which is often associated with the work of contemporary academic poets. This is no doubt partly because his facility with language and prosody allow him to fit the words and form of the individual poem to its subject in the light in which he sees it, where less gifted or skilled poets would find their expression cramped by a self-imposed strictness in form and diction. A comparison of two passages, one from "First Morning," and the other from "Corrida," shows this flexibility...
...tone of L.C. Austin's extended dirty joke does not change, but one wishes it would, for his poem on Nat. Sci. 3 is horrible, not only in conception, but in expression. Mr. Austin should discover the distinction between serious sensuality and blatantly lewd writing. In contrast, Anne Adams writes of Adam and Eve, seriously and with some success...