Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turning 80 this week on his North Carolina goat farm, Poet-Biographer Carl Sandburg anticipated living to be 88, maybe even 99. Cried he: "It's inevitable, it's inexorable, it's written in the Book of Fate!" Reason: two of his great-grandfathers and one of his grandfathers expired at ages divisible by eleven...
...best lines stand out too conspicuously, or more often remain submerged in the gray sounds of grammar and they must be hunted for. One has the feeling that the poet is mumbling to himself. The absence of an audience is also implied by the almost total lack of humor despite the title of the poem...
Freeman's poem, in contrast, specifically recognizes the existence of an audience. Certainly the most successful work in this Advocate, it is an hortatory stage whisper to "an audience" accompanied by appropriate rhythmic gestures. The poet succeeds in sharing with his readers some of stagecraft's "dreams," "contrived hallucinations" through which one might "Now in attentive webs, catch rapture fleeting." The sounds are precise, pleasing, and appropriate. The images cast out to the listeners are nearly as fine as the sound that bears them, and there is a welcome humor in the poem's treatment of itself...
...years of steeping himself in antiquity, Britain's Novelist-Poet Robert (I, Claudius; The Greek Myths) Graves had never been to Rome. Last week, resplendent in a white formal evening shirt, pink tie and embroidered gold vest, Traveler Graves, 62, long based on the Mediterranean isle of Majorca, finally made his first appearance on the scene of many of his writings. To the dismay of Roman antiquarians, he refused to go near the Colosseum or other ruins: "Why should I visit ruins when the shops are so good?" In high good humor, he recalled a fanciful previous visit...
...Janeiro (her husband twice served as president of the Bank of Brazil), she published her diary in a small edition for friends and family. Famed French Novelist Georges Bernanos saw it and proclaimed it a work of genius. By the time-1952-that U.S. Pulitzer-Prizewinning Poet Elizabeth Bishop went to live in Brazil, it had become famous there. Now handsomely translated for the first time into English by Poet Bishop, the book proves appealing, though it is scarcely the work of a genius...