Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...topic at the public session on Monday will be "What Are Little Magazines For?". Participants will include Robert Giroux, vice-president of Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy; Philip Rahv, Editor of the Partisan Review; Henry Rago poet; Robert Lowell, Editor of Poetry, and Henry A. Kissinger, Editor of Confluence...
...Audience for the Little Magazine" will be the topic of the last public session on Wednesday evening. Speakers in this session will be Ray B. West, Jr. Editor of The Western Review; John E. Palmer, Editor of the Yale Review; and Marianne Moore, poet...
...arias he is Peachum as Gay must have envisioned him. Zamah Cunningham as his wife, however, speaks her lines as if she were all too conscious of their comic intent. Jeanne Beauvais displayed a lovely voice as Lucy Lockit, and Sorrel Booke was properly ingratiating as the Beggar Poet...
...will, as interpreted by Samuel, with the air of a man who gets his orders direct. Jealous of Saul and resentful of his own failing prophetic powers, Samuel sets about plotting the upstart king's undoing. Samuel's master stroke is to seek out David, the young poet whom Saul loves like a son. Though David protests his loyalty to Saul, Samuel whispers: "Saul has drawn down upon himself and his house the displeasure of the Lord ... It is upon you ... that the choice of the Lord has fallen...
Delicate Balance. Hickling writes of the sea and his ungainly craft with the accuracy of a seaman, the eye of a poet, and a prose that suggests he profitably studied Conrad. His descriptions transform the experiences of the sea from something noted into something experienced; though they sometimes teeter on the brink of preciosity ("A filibuster of surf"), they rarely lose their delicate balance. Sample: "About the ship the sea resounded with fantastic whispers, occasionally erupting against the shivering bows; it moved like a beast asleep...