Word: poems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born in Moscow in 1891 of a well-to-do Jewish family, Ehrenburg was a poet of the long-haired kind before the revolution. During the civil war, he swung in behind Denikin's White Guards and strongly attacked Communism in an early poem. Then, when it appeared that the Bolsheviks were there to stay, he flirted with Trotskyism, dropped it for Bukharinism, and finally in Paris, where in bohemian Montparnasse he kept a step ahead of the consequences of his earlier misjudgments, he became Stalin's advocate...
Muttered Peter uneasily: "We have no money at all." Japan's Emperor Hirohito greeted the New Year with his traditional annual poem, which as usual had the lilt wrung out of it in translation. The royal quat rain: "Stout are the hearts/Of men who toil/At their honest calling/Enduring heat and cold." Cinemactress Ava Gardner, a restless siren who has spent the past month roving the world and attending national premieres of her latest movie, The Barefoot Contessa, popped up in Stockholm. She wore shoes to a party in her honor, pursed her moist lips prettily to get a kiss...
...Prologue," Thomas' last poem, is part of this bequest, which will be displayed along with works by T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, John Masefield and Ezra Pound. The "Prologue" manuscripts contain the original draft and the finished copy of the poem...
Jackson, the well-known pugilist." But when Hours was pooh-poohed by the Edinburgh Review, his lordship flew into an ungentlemanly frenzy, swore "to punish them for it." He did so, in the satirical poem English Bards and Scotch Reviewers -the first intimation to Britons that there had risen among them a satirist with a skinning knife sharper than any since Alexander Pope...
...Thomas (240 pp.; New Directions; $3.50), will scarcely affect posterity's view of Poet Thomas, for it is no more than a fragmentary prose footnote to his poetic genius. Composed largely of BBC talks on poetry and childhood reminiscences, the book suggests less how Dylan Thomas made a poem than how he made a living. But even as he fell back on lecturing for money to radio listeners and the matronly bands of U.S. "culture-vultures," as he called them, Poet Thomas whirled his economic crutch like a pinwheel. These pieces testify to his roving eye, roguish humor...