Word: poet-hero
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Skarmeta, like Llosa, chooses a writer--Chilean poet-hero Pablo Neruda--as his protagonist. The lines vibrate with metaphor. Poetry intermingles with the text of the play in a way that emphasizes the living spirit of Neruda in the hearts of revolutionaries...
...Poet-Hero. In 1895 a frail, romantic poet renewed the call to freedom. He was José Martí, who had spent six months in ball and chain for such lines...
...ensemble conducted by Thomas Schippers in cooperation with the New York City Ballet; Angel). Menotti's bittersweet madrigal fable of a lonely poet's struggle with "the indifferent killers of the Poet's dreams" seems almost as effective in recording as it did on the stage (TIME, Nov. 5). The libretto, in clearest English, is thorny with barbed wit, and the music is alternately exuberant and shadowed with the gentle melancholy the poet-hero feels as he slowly dies, surrounded by "the pain-wrought children of my fancy...
When 17-year-old Sebastian Barnack, adolescent poet-hero of Aldous Huxley's new novel, arrived in Florence, Italy, he found life in the British colony revolving in oldtime Huxleyan fashion...
...biggest political job was given to a man with no political but plenty of military fame, a 37-year-old child of iron named Ettore Muti. Signor Muti marched with Poet-Hero Gabriele D'Annunzio when he seized Fiume in 1919, by 1922 had let enough blood in the province of Ravenna so that it was ready to be healed by Fascism; dropped bombs on Ethiopia and Spain-until, today, his is known as the most decorated chest in medal-rich Italy. He is handsome, slim-waisted, athletic, merciless. If Starace was a panther, he is a tiger...