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Word: poet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collaborators, including Robert Graves and C. Day Lewis). In Britain The Sweeniad-titled for Apeneck Sweeney, Eliot's loathed modern subman-has already provoked tempests in all the best literary teapots. "Bravo!" cried Graham Greene. "A delight," said Bertrand Russell (who was once more or less described by Poet Eliot as an "irresponsible foetus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sweeney & the Mockingbirds | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...genius and malice made Colley Cibber memorable ; in The Vision of Judgment, Byron made Southey immortal. But if the name of Victor Purcell-or Myra Buttle-is remembered in a hundred years it will be for the fact that he threw a dead cat at a living poet. Before The Sweeniad nears its inevitable conclusion ("This is the way that Sweeney ends. Not with a curse but a mutter"), the satire has fallen heavily among the bric-a-brac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sweeney & the Mockingbirds | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...year-old writer named Jack Kerouac, whose recent novel On the Road (TIME, Sept. 16) chronicled the cross-country adventures in cars, bars and beds of a bunch of fancy-talking young bums. Last week, in newspaper interviews with TV's Mike Wallace, Novelist Kerouac and equally beat Poet Philip Lamantia explained that beatness is really a religious movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Beat Mystics | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

Interrogator Wallace asked San Francisco Poet Lamantia to explain two of his lines: Come Holy Ghost, for we can rise/ Out of this Jazz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Beat Mystics | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...that prompted Jim as a stripling to say to the mature Yeats: "I regret that you are too old to be influenced by me." Argues Stanislaus: "What my brother said, or meant to say . . . was in plain words that Yeats did not hold his head high enough for a poet of his stature, that he made himself too cheap with people who were not worthy to dust his boots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bloomsday's Child | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

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