Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intelligent and benign for that, and he is certainly not mute, being one of the most relentlessly prolific authors now at work. The book jacket of his latest collection of miscellaneous pieces says, "There is only one Robert Graves," but this is patently untrue. There are many-the poet, novelist, critic, scholar, mythologist, essayist, general literary pundit and japester. All of them in this thoroughly entertaining volume are in top form...
...that at his home in Majorca he writes 500 words a day with a steel nib; that he dislikes Guggenheim fellowships ("When I was young . . . one didn't expect to be publicly supported just because one happened to write unsaleable verse"); and that he likes to test a poet's verboseness by summarizing stanzas in cablese, e.g., Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper": SOLITARY HIGHLAND LASS REAPING BINDING GRAIN STOP MELANCHOLY SONG OVERFLOWS PROFOUND VALE...
...year-old Stuart Holroyd, about a Norwegian resistance leader in World War II. By the middle of the last act, Holroyd's agnostic hero was beginning to find God in the extremity of his suffering at the hands of Nazi torturers. Up stood Christopher Logue, 31, a leftist poet passionately engaged in the campaign to ban the bomb in Britain, and shouted: "Oh, rubbish!" A moment later Novelist Elaine Tynan, Critic Tynan's pretty blonde American wife, got up and stomped out with Logue...
...another school of thought, the book's enormous thesis means simply that no justification is possible-only revelation, before which the man who cries for justice and understanding must "lay his hand upon his mouth." In his new verse-play, J.B. (Houghton Mifflin; $3.50), Poet Archibald MacLeish, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner, adds a new emphasis to Job's epic ordeal-a justification of the ways...
...smaller band of Nietzscheans led by Novelist Thomas Mann acclaimed the Nietzsche of Thus Spake Zarathustra, the prophet-poet who looked piercingly about his Victorian world and pronounced all its accepted truths a sham. But his sister zealously vaunted her status as the Nietzsche Archive's high priestess, fostered the myth she had largely created, lived to transmit her priestess' blessing to Mussolini and Hitler. Nietzsche, Hitler proclaimed, was "the pioneer of National Socialism...