Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Zhivago's tragedy is somewhat confused by Pasternak's limitations as a novelist. This is his first novel. He is a poet, and during the Stalin era of literary frigidity, he devoted himself to Russian translations of Shakespeare. As a poet, he has been schooled to write from a single point of view, a single consciousness ranging on a variety of subjects or focusing on one. Most poetry is characterized by this synthesis of artist and the created personality. For poetry, it is basic; for the novel, it can be disastrous. The fusion of Zhiva-go and Pasternak admits...
Summoning up remembrance of gay things past, officials of the mellow (founded in 1768) London publishing firm of John Murray, Ltd., unlocked for a TIME reporter a keepsake secured from a best-selling client of long ago, the amorous, glamorous 19th century poet George Gordon, Lord Byron. Inside a musty tin box were dozens of tiny parchment packages, each inscribed with the name and date of a comely comrade, each containing a specimen of the lady's locks. Handsomest of the hairlooms was a lustrous, 2½ ft. pony tail, still scented with the aroma of pomade, which...
Only then did the poet, Robert L. McCulloh, head of the university news bureau, speak up. There is no subject, said he, but the vocabulary is demanding, all right. Word-dazzled one night while browsing through a thesaurus, onetime Newsman (Neosho, Mo. News) McCulloh wrote 35 especially incandescent words on separate pieces of paper. Then he stuck them in a box, pulled them out at random, tacked them together with appropriate connectives, and added a wry title: Counterfeit Generation...
Author Henderson's literal translation -"Old pond:/ frog jumpin/ water-sound" -mirrors the surface picture beneath which lies Poet Bashó's elusive hidden meaning...
John Betjeman, 52, is a gentle, witty, rumpled Englishman who has been called "the greatest bad poet now living." It would be in character if he agreed with that estimate, although he can be called "bad" only in the sense that his rhymes sometimes jingle like a song writer's and that his subjects are often deliberately homely. Literary bookmakers predict that Betjeman (rhymes with fetch-a-man) will be England's next poet laureate. By last week, his Collected Poems had caused a rush on British bookstores probably unmatched by any newly published work of poetry since...