Word: poems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sober poet and scholar, Moore dashed off A Visit From Saint Nicholas, better known as The Night Before Christmas, in 1822 as a fanciful amusement for his own children. Little did he know that his poem would eventually change the image of Saint Nicholas around the world...
...precision and a richness of diction that tends to disturb the flow of his lines. Wordy images help to convey complex impressions of "Benton Harbor," but at the same time they mince his stanzas into goulashes of striking sentences and phrases. But the infection is local. At the poem's end he serenades his subject with moving simplicity...
...what they talk about, nor do they entertain. They either grab the reader by the intellect and dare him to interpret them, or they flirt ambiguously with him. Too often the Advocate's authors "confound obscurity of expression with the expression of obscurity," as Poe put it. A good poem should sound good the first time around -- but it's entirely possible to slide through this whole magazine without being moved or interested enough by anything to want to understand it. If an Advocate writer stands silent on a peak in Darien, he usually stands there alone, while the public...
...about her travels. She was born in Australia, "but I never really enjoyed being in Australia as a child," she said. Her parents were Irish and they had relatives in London whom she was permitted to visit when she was quite young. Upon arriving in England she sent a poem she had written to a family friend in Ireland who happened to be editor of the Irish Statesman. The family friend was A. E. (George Russell), poet and intimate of William Butler Yeats. He liked the poem, and sent the young poetess two guineas for it. "He said...
...children." Her commitment to childhood reveals itself in her devotion to fable and legends, to the elemental thought of the east, to all that is strange, new, and quaint, and to old customs--especially Christmas, childhood's most glorious moment. Just before I left she typed out a Christmas poem and gave...