Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might just as aptly have been summed up under the title Six Characters in Search of an Opera. In a rococo salon near Paris, the six main figures sit chatting for the whole of one golden, 18th century afternoon-a Count and Countess, a Musician and a Poet, a Director and an Actress. The Poet and the Musician, both in love with the Countess, plead their special skills ("The poetic spirit is the mirror of the world!" sings the Poet; "The sounds of nature sing at the cradle of the arts!" replies the Musician). The Director scorns both their arts...
...wanes the six decide to compose an opera based on the afternoon's talk, and the Countess is finally left with the agonizing task of choosing between Poetry and Music- Poet and Composer. In a gently ironic ending she looks deep into her mirror and finds that she can make no choice-her two loves...
...Touch of the Poet. With as much poetic license as poetry, the late Eugene O'Neill robbed a bottle-fed innkeeper of his illusions and gave a so-so season its best play...
...Protestant merchants, who saw in every Cavalier excess the worldly hand of the Papal archfiend. It found the same response in all who refused to allow Royalist glamour to blind their eyes to the King's infinite capacity for treachery, deceit and absolutism. The Roundheads' chosen poet, John Milton, sang them no sparkling songs; he merely compressed their deadly earnestness into a few short lines culled from Seneca...
...Wilde for suing the Marquis of Queensberry for libel when he referred (accurately) to the poet's homosexuality; Schiller by the Duke of Württemberg after the stir caused by his social criticism in The Robbers...