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Bunthorne rejects the maiden’s affections and instead favors the local milkmaid Patience, who doesn’t understand the poet??s anguished ways. Patience, in turn, falls for the superlatively self-assured and well-primped Grosvenor...
...grubby and ultimately rather banal little mind” and insisting that “the artistic temperament has no gender,” the teacher undermines his own efforts to evade the question when he immediately directs another student to read aloud one of the aforementioned poet??s works, entitled “The sweat of the young working boy stiffens my resolve...
...deathbed consigned it to flames so that it would not be published without his finishing touches. Western civilization has Augustus to thank for saving the Aeneid from this fiery fate. Countermanding Virgil’s request, he had the poem edited and published against the dead poet??s wishes. The emperor’s motives, however, were less than pure; although he undoubtedly had a sense of the Aeneid’s unsurpassable greatness, the poem also served Augustus on a more practical level by extolling, at least on a superficial level, the greatness of imperial Rome?...
...world of Ba’al is a place where propriety and restraint appear obsolete and where shocking alternatives challenge and sometimes consume its inhabitants. Brecht’s audience is then charged with surviving and somehow evaluating an eerie parallel universe and recognizing that a young poet??s struggles with his humanity is a mirror of their own torturous reality...
...purchase augments Harvard’s already extensive Longfellow collection, which includes the prolific poet??s personal papers, and will be housed in Houghton Library, the University’s repository for rare manuscripts...