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...occasional twinkle of old school bling or the sporadic glimmer of gold teeth, you might think you were watching an Indigo Girls video. Okay, only if you really squinted your eyes. Just when you start to feel overcome with nostalgia as blurry images of the “poet??s” native Queens flash before your eyes, the video ends with a big, shiny, three-dimensional “NAS” spinning on the screen. Oh, right. He’s still a rapper...
Vendler began by joking that, unsure what to focus on during her talk, she asked fellow English professor—and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet??Jorie Graham for advice...
...with quaintly archaic tastes in music to make some sort of a living out of their skills. It will take a populist’s appreciation for the common man, an intellectual’s pure curiosity, a sentimentalist’s attachment to useless artifacts, and an epic poet??s literary stamina, but Ross has both paved the way and set the standard. The rest is up to you.—Staff writer Jillian J. Goodman can be reached at jjgoodm@fas.harvard.edu...
...James Russell Lowell, Class of 1838, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Class of 1829. Some of Longfellow’s visitors included Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, President Ulysses S. Grant, and Oscar Wilde. Nowadays the house at 105 Brattle St. is a Longfellow National Historic Site showcasing the poet??s collections of art, historic furnishings, and books, as well as archives and manuscript collections. Longfellow resigned from his post in 1854 to devote more time to writing. “Teaching at Harvard if anything probably interrupted his poetry,” Pearl said, noting...
...Atlanta blues of the 1930’s, from poems and melody “from many moons ago,” to use his words. The last line of its last song is even borrowed from the exile poetry of Ovid, 2000 years of moons ago, as that poet??s life winds down. This is just one of a number of such borrowings, and if you want to know the difference between plagiarism and creative reuse and legitimate theft, listen to Dylan with his intertexts (which of course he wants you to spot...