Word: poems
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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...
Poet Stephen Spender and two critics disagreed last night on published revisions of his poem "Shapes of Death Haunt Life" in the featured half of his Poet's Theatre reading...
After two critics had praised the revised version of the poem, Spender said he thought it was much less poetic. "I feel it's not alive," he added. "I'll revise it again and we'll have another reading...
Stephen Spender, the distinguished English poet, will give a reading from his poems at 8:30 p.m. Sunday in Fogg Museum. Two critics, Edwin Honig, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English, and J. M. Brinnin of the New York City Poetry Center will discuss Spender's recent changes in his poem, "Shapes of Death Haunt Life...
Looking at your night skyline of Manhattan, I was reminded of a poem that I composed some 40 years ago ... I recall only two lines: Did ever a dream city rise from the sea That was fairer, more fleeting and fragile than thee? If you had asked me what the last adjectives meant exactly, I couldn't have told...