Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poet William Butler Yeats was also a prolific playwright, with no less than twenty-four dramas, two adaptations from Sophocles, and several unpublished juvenile efforts to his credit. From this canon, which consists almost wholly of rather short works, the Poets' Theatre presents three in its current production. Although only one of the offerings is completely satisfactory, the result is still a worthwhile evening of theater...
Wang, class poet of Dartmouth in 1955 and a Chinese-American, said he would like to debate a member of the NAACP before a Harvard audience...
Jorge Guillen, Spanish poet, discussed the 13th century poet Berceo at the second Charles Eliot Norton lecture in Longfellow Hall last night...
Berceo, a mystic poet, expressed the "absolute harmony of heaven and earth through exact poetical language," Guillen said. Within a strict rhyme scheme, Berceo described a world in which unity and order were maintained by Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary...
Guillen also defended the simple prosaic language of Berceo, calling it "calculated artistry, rather than childish naivete." The simplicity of Berceo's style was due in part to his own humility, and to the fact that he considered himself a craftsman or versifier, rather than a poet...