Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SELECTED POEMS, by Eugenic Montale. The most profound poet of modern Italy, Montale is at last given English translations (by Robert Lowell, Mario Praz and G. S. Eraser among others) to match his European reputation...
Identify the country or countries which recently: a) sentenced a poet to two weeks in prison for penning "a mockery of the Holy Family and Jesus Christ"; b) promoted Pepsi-Cola in full-page newspaper ads; c) gave away choice seashore plots of land to Sophia Loren, Gene Kelly, Kirk Douglas, Doris Day and Frank Sinatra...
Even in the realm of religion, the Yugoslavs are breaking fresh Communist ground. Hard on the heels of the conviction and sentencing of Poet Vladimir Gajsek for "provoking religious intolerance," Belgrade and the Vatican announced that this month they will sign an agreement according new freedom to the Yugoslav Roman Catholic Church, particularly to teach the catechism and open seminaries...
...dank day in February 1963, a pretty young mother of two children was found in a London flat with her head in the oven and the gas jets wide open. The dead woman was Sylvia Plath, 30, an American poet whose marriage to Ted Hughes, a British poet, had gone on the rocks not long before. Her published verses, appearing occasionally in American magazines and gathered in a single volume, The Colossus, had displayed accents of refinement, but had not yet achieved authority of tone...
...have lived under a glass bell," says shy old Poet Eugenic Montale. Italy's intellectuals have long since discovered that by putting an ear to the bell they can hear a harsh recondite music of commanding originality. Foreigners have been less fortunate. At 69, Montale has only recently made the cultural scene in France and Britain, and in the U.S. his poetry is virtually unknown. Transatlantic ignorance is now relieved by the first volume of Montale in translation to appear in the U.S. With quiet force the book discloses what the poetry public has been missing: a European writer...