Word: poems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Auden remarked once that he was "suspicious of criticism as the literary genre which, more than any other, recruits epigones, pedants without insight, intellectuals without love." A prolific reviewer himself, Auden identified four varieties of critic: the prig, "for whom no actual poem is good enough since the only one that would be is the poem he would like to write himself but cannot." Second, the critic's critic--"on the surface he appears to idolize the poet...but his critical analysis of his idol's work is so much more complicated and difficult than the work itself...
Darwin had taken the lines, almost word for word, from Anna Seward, and after the poem was published, the Seward-Darwin cat correspondence ended. But The Botanic Garden was so popular that otherwise sober critics judged Darwin a greater poet than Milton...
...movie critic's most painful losses was his description of Tony Curtis as "a sort of Gary Grunt." And this week the People writer attempted to summarize a congressional move to lift Richard Burton's U.S. visa on grounds of moral turpitude in a poem that began thus...
Reading the fall Advocate at a single sitting is something like swallowing an unplucked chicken. You keep telling yourself how good the meat is, but all the while you are spitting out the feathers. Just as a poem or story almost catches you up, the author shoves you a mouthful of down...
...reasons, and he must offer something substantial for the time and energy that explication requires. Bob Grenier is a better translator than original poet. I prefer Doris Garter in the bath to Doris Garter exploring a religious cosmos. And Susan Rich surpasses other more galactic rumblings with a little poem (less disturbingly fastidious than her drawing) of an abandoned doll. Her subtle internal rhymings reveal a feeling for line that is also found in parts of Robert Dawson's overlong poem about German prisoners of war in Minnesota. Portions of this work reflect the same evocative power of Cummings...